Unearthly Materials was founded by Ranga Dias and Ashkan Salamat to commercialize research claiming a room-temperature superconductor. The published paper describes a material that superconducts at 69.8°F when squeezed between two diamonds at about 145,000 psi. Dias has said the company is focused on developing the material and bringing it to ambient conditions, but he has also cited intellectual-property concerns that limit sharing the full recipe. The company maintains a spare website, LinkedIn lists six employees, and it does not appear on PitchBook or Crunchbase. Financial claims by Dias include a $1M seed and a $20M Series A, but public records and investor responses cast those figures into doubt. Only documents tied to the seed round totaling $160,000 were found, and prior controversy— including a 2020 paper retraction—has increased scientific and investor skepticism.

Total raised

$21M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Mar 2023