Still Bright

Non-ferrous Metals · Precious Metals

Overview

Powering a faster, cleaner, and more abundant copper supply. We’ve transformed copper extraction with localized, cost-effective technology that ensures our future is Still Bright.

Funding and backers

Hiring now
2
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
SOSV, Material Impact
Momentum
13/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 7%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$76k
Typical range
$76k
Open positions
1
1 Jobs
Middle 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Middle 1 $76k $76k
Highest paying role Office Manager $76k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
22/100
Hiring freeze
Open positions
2
0 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
97 days
faster than 12% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Administrative
50% ▲
Industrial Engineering
50% ▼

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Still Bright over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
3
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
50/100
Languages
Python
Practices & domains
Digital Twin
Time Series
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Connections

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Shared investors2
Material ImpactVia a fund
48 portfolio companies: Allvue Systems, TalusAg, Revr and 45 more
SOSVVia a fund
780 portfolio companies

News

News MIT Technology Review 1 year ago
This startup wants to clean up the copper industry
Still Bright hopes its chemical process could help replace polluting copper smelters.
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News HackSummit 1 year ago
42 Startups Reinventing Industries
Hear from SOSV, DCVC, Pangaea Ventures, Voyager Ventures, Streetlife Ventures, Extantia, Deep Science Ventures, Atlantic Labs, Buoyant Ventures and 5 more VCs on who are the 'ones to watch'
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News International Finance 1 year ago
Start-up of the Week: Still Bright & the art of making copper extraction cost-effective
As per the International Energy Agency, demand for copper, needed for the transition to a low-carbon world, will outstrip supply within the next decade.
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News TechCrunch 1 year ago
How a New Jersey startup found an electrifying way to slash copper costs
Still Bright is now loaded up with $18.7 million in seed money to build out its demonstration unit.
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News Grist 2 years ago
New technologies could refine the copper the world needs - without the dirty smelting
At a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, a gray liquid swirls vigorously inside a reactor the size of a small watermelon. Here, scientists with the mining technology startup Still Bright are using a rare metal, vanadium, to extract a common one, copper, fro
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News World Economic Forum 2 years ago
Why we need innovation and investment to disrupt the mining industry
To meet the rising demand in minerals and metals necessary for the energy transition, the mining industry will need to adopt and invest in innovative, disruptive technologies.
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News calculatedriskblog.com 12 years ago
The Future is still Bright!
Trulia chief economist Jed Kolko wrote this morning: "Median age in US 38. But modal age is 23. Five most common ages: 23, 24, 22, 54, 5...
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News Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog 17 years ago
Long term future still bright for online advertising
James Mitchell, lead internet analyst for Goldman Sachs, presented to a group of around 100 internet and mobile media company CEOs that Lightspeed pulled together last week. There is clearly near t…
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Kenilworth
Kenilworth United States
HQ
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $76k Avg Salary
hires for Administrative, Field & Service
2000 Galloping Hill Rd
seen since Jun 2026 job postings