Mining Tech Startup Landscape: an open dataset of startups across the mining and metals value chain

A curated dataset of 170 private technology startups across the mining and metals value chain (exploration, extraction, processing and refining, recovery from mine waste, and mine operations) in 26 countries, with headquarters, segment, funding raised and disclosed investors, validated against PitchBook, Crunchbase and company releases (November 2026). Includes reproducible analysis scripts and exit benchmarks. See README.md for methodology and exclusions. The full report (17 pages) is published separately at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23957691 and included in the report/ folder.