Kansas City-based Critical Materials Crossroads (CMC) is building a national hub towards 100,000 tons per year of critical mineral production capacity and looking for investors and corporate partners to build it with. In this reverse pitch, the CMC, backed by a $160 million U.S. National Science Foundation award, presents the challenges between promising technologies and commercial scale across materials for energy, communications, transportation, defense, and health markets including battery supply chains, rare earth elements, recycling and more. Anthony Caruso and Ashlynn Horras will share how CMC and its ecosystem partners are forging industry partnerships and developing industrial sites to de-risk the leap from pilot to plant. Come with a solution, a problem, or an appetite for co-investment.