Solcoa Industries

Solcoa Industries

Solcoa is scaling the next generation of American metalmaking — starting with rare earth metals, made cheaper, faster, and cleaner.

Alameda, California
17 employees
manufacturing, hardware
Pre-seed · $200K
Founded 2025

About Solcoa Industries

Solcoa Industries is building the next generation of American metalmaking, starting with rare earths — the metals that power all electrified motion. Every EV, fighter jet, wind turbine, MRI machine, and data center relies on rare earths, yet virtually all production of these critical metals has been shipped to China, where they're produced using incredibly destructive legacy processes that are illegal in the rest of the world.

Mission: To reshore critical metal production to the West with new, better, cleaner technologies — enabling the world to control its electrified future without relying on destructive legacy processes.

Culture: Solcoa is a lean, output-driven team where every person is essential. The environment is fast-paced, ambitious, and deeply technical, with everything from reactors to furnaces built in-house using their own fabrication shop. No one does busy work.

Benefits

  • • Competitive base salary
  • • Generous stock options
  • • Comprehensive health insurance
  • • Dental insurance
  • • Vision insurance
  • • Company-provided lunch daily
  • • Flexible unlimited PTO
  • • Visa sponsorship available
  • • Creative relocation support

Company details

Team Size17
LocationAlameda, California
Industrymanufacturing, hardware

Funding

Total raised

$200K

Last stage

Pre-seed

Investors

TThiel Fellowship
GGigascale Capital
11517 Fund
88090 Industries
BBCV

Founders

Hooman Reza Nezhad

Hooman Reza Nezhad

Co-founder and CEO of Solcoa Industries. Previously associated with The Thiel Foundation and University of Waterloo/University of Toronto.

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Artem Iurkovskyi

Artem Iurkovskyi

Co-founder and CTO of Solcoa Industries. Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 (Manufacturing & Industry). Previously a researcher at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and intern at Magrathea.

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.