Alkali Labs

Unlocking $12B/yr of low-concentration lithium brines in the US

Alkali Labs is a business in sustainable manufacturing based in United States, founded in 2023.

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AlkaLi Labs is working on a biological platform for the extraction of valuable minerals from unconventional water sources such as oilfield brine waste streams. A typical oil well can discard up to $40 worth of lithium-rich brine for every $100 of crude oil it produces. This represents 250k tons of Lithium that goes unexploited per year – because current extraction methods cannot work on these low-concentration oil-rich brines. AlkaLi’s approach can tap brines with ore grade as low as 50+ ppm, which most direct lithium extraction approaches (400+ ppm) cannot exploit. AlkaLi engineers microbes that thrive in the real brines from oil well disposal sites and supercharges their ability to bio-accumulate metals of interest.

As a business in sustainable manufacturing, Alkali Labs is listed here with the public details available about it.

The company is recorded as being based in United States.

Directory data places it at the SOSV portfolio company stage.

Recorded headcount: 2-10 employees.

Website: www.alkalilabs.com