The recovery layer for critical metals.
About
CORTERRA was founded on a simple observation: the metals the world is scrambling for are already out of the ground — sitting in waste piles, priced as liabilities.
The missing piece isn't geology. It's chemistry, done fast enough to matter.
Born from industry, built in the lab.
We are a deep-tech company founded by five partners who spent their careers in industrial chemistry, AI systems and financial risk. We watched companies sit on valuable waste for one reason: finding the right recovery process was slow, expensive, expert-bound work.
So we built the platform we wished existed — one that reads the science, respects the physics, and prices every answer. Our experiments run with university laboratories, and our recommendations carry their evidence with them.
Leadership
Dr. Shenhav Malul
CFO · Co-founder
PhD in actuarial science and CPA. Faculty at Ben-Gurion University and Ono Academic College.
Prof. Yitzhak Mastai
Chief Scientist
Professor of chemistry and nanotechnology at Bar-Ilan University. Leads scientific validation.
Idor Ovitz
CTO & CMO · Co-founder
Architect of the CORTERRA platform. AI systems, data engineering and go-to-market.
Prof. Rami Yosef
Chairman · Co-founder
Professor of actuarial science, Ben-Gurion University; President of the Israel Association of Actuaries.
Dr. Ronny Banker
CEO · Co-founder
PhD in chemistry, MBA. 25+ years leading cleantech, mining & environmental ventures.
We're raising our seed round.
Critical minerals, circular economy and industrial AI — in one company, with validated science and a working platform. If that's your thesis, we should talk.