BUENOS AIRES, Argentina and SANTIAGO, Chile, Oct. 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Giraffe Bio, a company developing programmable biomolecules to recover critical minerals with a lower environmental footprint, has raised a $6.4 million Seed round to validate and scale its mineral-specific reagent platform..

阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯和智利圣地亚哥，2026年10月13日（环球电讯社）——Giraffe Bio是一家开发可编程生物分子以更低环境足迹回收关键矿物的公司，该公司已完成640万美元的种子轮融资，用于验证并扩大其矿物特异性试剂平台。

The round was led by

本轮由……领投

Orion Industrial Ventures

猎户座工业创投

, with participation from

，并有以下参与方

BHP Ventures

必和必拓创投

,

，

Twynam

特怀纳姆

,

，

Air Capital

航空之都

,

，

Baruch Future Ventures

Baruch未来创投

, and other investors, building on prior backing from

，以及其他投资者，在先前获得的支持基础上

SOSV

SOSV

. Additionally, Giraffe Bio was chosen as the first company from Latin America to participate in Breakthrough Energy’s prestigious Fellows Program.

此外，Giraffe Bio 被选为来自拉丁美洲的首家参与突破能源基金会（Breakthrough Energy）享有盛誉的院士计划的公司。

BE Fellows

BE 会士

receive funding, tailored technical guidance, and access to Breakthrough Energy’s global network of mentors, experts and partners. The program helps founders bridge the gap from lab to market and advance their solutions toward commercial readiness.

获得资金支持、定制化的技术指导，并接入突破能源（Breakthrough Energy）的全球导师、专家和合作伙伴网络。该计划帮助创始人弥合从实验室到市场的差距，推动其解决方案迈向商业化准备阶段。

Copper is essential to power grids, renewable energy, electric vehicles and data infrastructure, but meeting rising demand will require miners to recover more metal from lower-grade and more complex ores.

铜对电网、可再生能源、电动汽车和数据基础设施至关重要，但要满足日益增长的需求，矿工们需要从品位更低、更复杂的矿石中回收更多的金属。

Concurrently, flotation, the process used to separate valuable minerals from unwanted material, underpins roughly

与此同时，浮选——一种用于将有价值矿物与无用物质分离的工艺——支撑着大约

80% of global copper production

全球铜产量的80%

and plays a critical role in determining the quality and quantity of copper a mine can recover.

并在决定矿山可回收铜的质量和数量方面发挥着关键作用。

Yet much of the chemistry used in floatation was developed decades ago.

然而，浮选工艺中使用的许多化学药剂是在几十年前开发的。

Giraffe Bio is applying a drug-discovery playbook to mining, combining AI-enabled molecular design, cell-free biology and testing on real ore samples to engineer biochemical promoters for copper flotation. Tailored to specific minerals and ore conditions, these reagents are designed to help mines recover more copper and other valuable minerals while producing cleaner concentrates..

Giraffe Bio 正将药物研发策略应用于矿业，结合人工智能驱动的分子设计、无细胞生物学技术以及对真实矿石样本的测试，设计出用于铜浮选的生物化学促进剂。这些试剂针对特定矿物和矿石条件量身定制，旨在帮助矿山提高铜及其他有价值矿物的回收率，同时生产出更纯净的精矿。

These finished, drop-in reagents work alongside existing flotation chemicals, without requiring new equipment or infrastructure. They bring the precision of molecular design to mineral processing without relying on living organisms in the mining operation.

这些即用型成品试剂可与现有浮选药剂协同使用，无需新增设备或基础设施。它们将分子设计的精确性引入矿物加工过程，且在采矿作业中不依赖生物体。

Over the past year, Giraffe Bio has progressed from laboratory development to validating its technology with global mining companies across multiple copper ore types. The company is now advancing toward larger-scale pilots and industrial validation.

在过去一年中，Giraffe Bio 已从实验室研发阶段，发展到在全球多家矿业公司针对不同种类的铜矿石验证其技术。目前，该公司正朝着更大规模的中试和工业化验证迈进。

'Mining

采矿

companies

公司

increasingly

越来越

need

需要

to

到

process

进程

more

更多

complex

复杂

ores,

矿石，

but

但是

the

这

chemistry

化学

used

已使用

to separate

分离

those

那些

minerals has changed

矿物已发生变化

little

小

in decades,' said

“在几十年里，”说

Alejandro Buffo Sempe, CEO and

亚历杭德罗·布福·森佩，首席执行官兼

co-founder

联合创始人

of

的

Giraffe

长颈鹿

Bio.

简介

'We

我们

are

是

applying

应用

modern

现代

biology

生物学

and molecular

和分子

design

设计

to

到

engineer

工程师

better reagents

更好的试剂

for

为了

existing flotation

现有浮选

circuits. Our

电路。我们的

aim

目标

is

是

to

到

give

给

operators

运算符

a

一个

new

新

lever to recover

恢复杠杆

more value from the

更多价值来自

ore

矿石

they

他们

already

已经

process, without

进程，无

requiring

要求

new

新

infrastructure

基础设施

'

'

'Giraffe sits

长颈鹿坐着

at

在

the

这

intersection

交集

of

的

biology and mining, an

生物学与采矿，一个

emerging field

新兴领域

with

与

enormous potential,

巨大的潜力，

'

'

said

说

Jason

杰森

Holt,

霍尔特，

Managing Partner at Orion

猎户座管理合伙人

Industrial Ventures.

工业风投。

'Advances in

进展

genetic sequencing and

基因测序和

high-performance

高性能

computing

计算

are

是

making it

使其

possible

可能的

to

到

design biological solutions

设计生物解决方案

with

与

a

一个

level of

水平

precision

精度

and

和

speed

速度

that

那

simply wasn't

根本不是

available

可用

a

一

decade

十年

ago,

前

and

和

Giraffe

长颈鹿

is

是

applying those capabilities to one

将这些能力应用于一个

of mining's

采矿的

most fundamental

最根本的

challenges;

挑战；

namely,

即，

separating

分离

valuable

有价值的

minerals from

来自的矿物

increasingly

日益

complex

复杂

ores.

矿石。

We

我们

believe

相信

we

我们

have

有

only

仅

scratched

刮伤

the

这

surface

表面

of

的

what

什么

biology can do for

生物学可以为

the

这

mining

采矿

industry, and

行业，以及

Giraffe

长颈鹿

is

是

an

一个

exciting

令人兴奋的

example of

的示例

what that future can

那个未来能够

look

看

like.'

喜欢。

The financing will support manufacturing scale-up, larger-scale pilot programs, expanded R&D and testing capabilities, and continued growth of the company's technical and commercial teams.

这笔融资将支持制造规模的扩大、更大规模的试点项目、研发和测试能力的扩展，以及公司技术和商业团队的持续增长。

To learn more about Giraffe Bio, visit

如需了解更多关于 Giraffe Bio 的信息，请访问

https://giraffe.bio/en

https://giraffe.bio/en

About

关于

Giraffe

长颈鹿

Bio

个人简介

Giraffe Bio develops mineral-specific biochemical reagents for mining. The company combines Al-enabled molecular design, cell-free biology and testing on real ore samples to develop finished, drop-in reagents that integrate directly into existing mineral processing operations. Initially focused on copper flotation, Giraffe Bio was founded in 2024 and operates in Argentina and Chile, working with mining partners globally..

Giraffe Bio 开发用于采矿的矿物特异性生化试剂。该公司结合人工智能驱动的分子设计、无细胞生物学技术以及真实矿石样本测试，开发出可直接集成到现有矿物加工流程中的成品即用型试剂。Giraffe Bio 最初专注于铜矿浮选，成立于 2024 年，在阿根廷和智利开展业务，并与全球矿业合作伙伴携手合作。

About

关于

Orion

猎户座

Industrial

工业的

Ventures

风险投资

Orion Industrial Ventures (OIV) is a venture capital firm investing in technologies that enable the secure, sustainable, and cost-competitive supply of the minerals and materials that underpin global industrial growth, electrification, and decarbonization. OIV backs early- and growth-stage companies across the mining value chain, including exploration, extraction, processing, recycling, and industrial efficiency.

猎户座工业风险投资公司（OIV）是一家风险投资机构，专注于投资那些能够确保支撑全球工业增长、电气化和脱碳进程的矿物与材料实现安全、可持续且具有成本竞争力的供应的技术。OIV 支持矿业价值链中处于早期和成长阶段的企业，涵盖勘探、开采、加工、回收以及工业效率提升等领域。

Leveraging the deep industry expertise and global network of the broader Orion platform, OIV helps portfolio companies accelerate commercialization and scale their impact..

依托更广泛的Orion平台深厚的行业专业知识与全球网络，OIV帮助其投资组合公司加速商业化进程并扩大影响力。

Media

媒体

contact

联系

Alejandro Buffo Sempe

亚历杭德罗·布福·森佩

CEO & co-founder, Giraffe Bio

Giraffe Bio 首席执行官兼联合创始人

pr@giraffe.bio

pr@giraffe.bio

www.giraffe.bio

www.giraffe.bio