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NewGenium, Ourea Energy and Mosaic. ASU Tech Week, April 8 and 9, 2026.

Lithium processed on American soil

A brine to battery process built on Caltech ion exchange chemistry. Against conventional extraction it cuts process steps by 75 percent, land use by 90 percent and capital cost by 40 percent, and it undercuts Chinese LFP on price.

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  • Chris Murphy, chief executive, formerly president and chief executive of Materia
  • Dr. Mark Davis, co-founder and chairman, professor of chemical engineering at Caltech
  • Two patents pending on the ion exchange and hydrothermal LFP process
newgenium.com →
Chris Murphy pitching NewGenium on the IdeaDay stage
Chris Murphy pitching NewGenium at IdeaDay, April 2026

A gigawatt hour, held upright in the desert

GravityBank stores energy by moving water up and down inside a vertical structure. A single 600 meter tower holds a gigawatt hour, holds it for as long as it is needed, and does not degrade with cycling. Ourea spun out of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill with the engineers behind the world's tallest buildings.

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  • Adam Semel, co-founder and chief executive, partner at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
  • Debuted at Arizona Tech Week with Governor Katie Hobbs and Burj Khalifa engineer Bill Baker
  • 50 percent cooling savings modeled for data center deployments
oureaenergy.com →
Adam Semel pitching Ourea Energy on the IdeaDay stage
Adam Semel pitching Ourea Energy at IdeaDay, April 2026

The desktop that gets ahead of the day

Mosaic reads the inbox, drafts the replies and lines up the day before anyone asks for it. It connects to Gmail, Outlook, Drive and OneDrive, and never acts without explicit approval. Content stays local on the user's device rather than on Mosaic's servers, and none of it trains outside models.

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  • NVIDIA Inception program member
  • Pre-launch, opening access from a waitlist
  • Local first architecture across Google Workspace and Microsoft 365
mosaic.it →
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