Carbon Robotics vs Freeport-McMoRan
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Seattle precision ag laser weeding robot in 14 countries eliminating 10B+ weeds; $177M total ($70M Series D 2024 + $20M Series D-2 Giant Ventures) with LPM trained on 40M+ plants competing with Blue River Technology for herbicide-free precision we...
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Carbon Robotics is a Seattle, Washington-based precision agriculture robotics company — backed with $177 million in total funding including a $70 million Series D in 2024 and a $20 million Series D-2 extension led by Giant Ventures — providing specialty crop farmers with the LaserWeeder: the world's first commercial AI-powered laser weeding robot that eliminates weeds using high-powered lasers guided by computer vision without chemical herbicides or manual labor. Operating in 14 countries across North America, Europe, and Australia, owned and operated by 100+ growers, with 10+ billion weeds eliminated since 2022, Carbon Robotics' Large Plant Model (LPM) — trained on 40+ million labeled plants from three continents — enables real-time identification and precision destruction of weeds growing between crop rows. Named to the 2024 CNBC Disruptor 50 and TIME's Top GreenTech Companies of 2024. Founded in 2018 by Paul Mikesell in Seattle.
Phoenix AZ copper/gold mining leader (NYSE: FCX) ~$25.4B FY2024 revenue; Grasberg world's largest gold mine, 4.2B lbs copper, EV/AI demand structural tailwind, Kathleen Quirk CEO 2024 competing with BHP and Glencore.
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Freeport-McMoRan Inc. is a Phoenix, Arizona-based mining company — publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FCX) as an S&P 500 Materials component — operating copper, gold, and molybdenum mines across North America, South America, and Indonesia, including the Grasberg mine complex in Papua, Indonesia (the world's largest gold mine and second-largest copper mine), the Cerro Verde mine in Arequipa, Peru, the Morenci mine in Arizona, and the El Abra mine in Chile through approximately 27,000 employees. In fiscal year 2024, Freeport-McMoRan reported revenues of approximately $25.4 billion, with copper representing the primary revenue driver (producing 4.2 billion pounds of copper at an average realized price of approximately $4.20/lb — the highest sustained copper price since 2011 as AI infrastructure, energy transition, and EV adoption created structural demand growth expectations). CEO Kathleen Quirk assumed the CEO role in June 2024 following Richard Adkerson's retirement after 24 years leading Freeport through the privatization of Freeport-McMoRan from its 2007 Phelps Dodge acquisition through the commodity supercycle, oil price-induced near-bankruptcy in 2016, and recovery to peak copper demand leadership. Freeport's Grasberg Complex (producing 1.7 billion pounds of copper and 1.6 million troy ounces of gold annually at full production) represents the defining asset — transitioning from the Grasberg open pit (the world's largest truck-shovel copper operation, mining ore since the 1980s, reaching pit depletion) to the underground Big Gossan, Grasberg Block Cave, and Deep MLZ block caving mines that provide 40+ years of underground copper production from the same ore body.
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