Startup Of The Week

Startup Of The Week: Xcalibur Smart Mapping

Spain’s Xcalibur Smart Mapping offers a wide range of advanced services and technologies for the exploration and evaluation of mineral, energy and environmental resources. Owning a fleet of more than forty aircraft equipped with geophysical systems, it maps countries and lands to identify the properties of the sub- and above-surface, and discover potential areas of natural resources, such as critical minerals, hydrogen, or geothermal. Mining and energy companies such as BHP and Rio Tinto, Shell, Repsol, ExxonMobil are customers as are Zambia, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Kazakhstan and the U.S.

Xcalibur is helping tackle one of the biggest challenges facing the energy transition: finding the critical raw minerals and resources needed for renewable energy systems, electric vehicles and energy storage. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) demand for critical minerals is projected to nearly triple by 2030 and grow to over 3.5 times current levels by 2050, reaching nearly 40 million tons annually.

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About the author

Jennifer L. Schenker

Jennifer L. Schenker, an award-winning journalist, has been covering the global tech industry from Europe since 1985, working full-time, at various points in her career for the Wall Street Journal Europe, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring and BusinessWeek. She is currently the editor-in-chief of The Innovator, an English-language global publication about the digital transformation of business. Jennifer was voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe in 2015 and 2016 and was named by Forbes Magazine in 2018 as one of the 30 women leaders disrupting tech in France. She has been a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers judge for 20 years. She lives in Paris and has dual U.S. and French citizenship.