The investment case of Critical Raw Materials

​A Slush Side Event by Nordic Circular Investments

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Date & Time: November 18th, 09:30–13:30

Venue: Oddspace Helsinki

Format: Direct invites and upon request

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Critical raw materials (CRMs) are necessary to modern technology, the clean energy transition, and industrial resilience. As global urgency builds around securing resilient supply chains, there is a need to bring together innovation, capital, and industry to collaborate. Capital is set to flow into this industry in the coming years, funding solutions that strengthen the value chain — from more efficient extraction and supply chain management to recycling and material recovery from waste streams.

This event is focused on collaboration, capital, and circularity, and brings together high-growth innovators, major industrial players, private investors, and core ecosystem enablers — with the mission of unlocking capital for solutions that make the raw materials process more circular and resilient, delivering both high financial returns and global impact.

The day is structured around this same logic: Collaboration — bringing the ecosystem together, opening with proof from the Nordics, a region already demonstrating what cross-border collaboration and industrial expertise can achieve; Capital — proving the investment case with real cases from around the world; and Circularity — Circular models represent a new industrial logic. Applied to critical raw materials, the mechanism is consistent: materials become assets, waste becomes input, recovery becomes margin, and capital follows measurable loops.