Our investment thesis is to build and grow companies that shorten the UK’s critical minerals supply chains and strengthen our domestic industrial capability.
The solution Mantle provides
Mantle acquires and develops companies leading the way in using technology to accelerate domestic extraction, reclamation, recovery and recycling of critical minerals.
This strengthens access to the materials required by defence, energy, infrastructure and advanced industry.
Mantle invests in companies that manufacture critical components onshore and integrate them into working systems, reducing our dependence on overseas suppliers.
Our team is actively monitoring high-growth-potential businesses with expertise across advanced manufacturing sectors, including batteries and energy storage, autonomous-system components, high-performance magnets, semiconductors and other strategically important technologies.
These are areas Mantle is actively monitoring and do not imply ownership, exclusivity or completion of a transaction.
What makes our model different
Mantle is building a cross-sector platform focused on improving capability, efficiency and resilience and designed to deliver faster against the UK’s sovereign requirements.
We call this the enabling ecosystem. In practice, this means:
Our experience provides credible routes into defence, national security, natural resources and other strategically important markets, channelling expertise to where it is most needed.
Digital and physical infrastructure can enable companies, government and partners to work together securely around sensitive requirements.
Closer access and collaboration with defence, industry and technology networks can provide earlier visibility of emerging requirements and the resources, manufacturing capacity and technologies likely to underpin them.
Mantle connects resources, manufacturing capability, technology, infrastructure, expertise and capital so that individual businesses can grow as part of a stronger operating ecosystem.