Atana Elements is a Houston-based critical minerals exploration company that finds and develops flowing subsurface mineral systems — lithium brines, copper, uranium, hydrogen and helium — in Western-aligned jurisdictions. It pairs proprietary geological databases with AI, machine learning and geospatial data science, applying oil-and-gas subsurface methods to mineral exploration, and says it can complete exploration in about 22 months against an industry norm of five to ten years. The company has licensed positions estimated to hold more than 100 million tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent across the EU and the Americas, and closed a $27.5M seed round led by Lowercarbon Capital in June 2026.