Leeta Materials, Inc.
Funding history
About Leeta Materials, Inc.
How much funding has Leeta Materials, Inc. raised?
Leeta Materials, Inc. has raised $11.0M in total funding. The most recent round was Seed.
Where is Leeta Materials, Inc. headquartered?
Leeta Materials, Inc. is headquartered in Goleta, CA.
What problem does Leeta Materials, Inc. solve?
Industrial applications like mining, heavy machinery, and aerospace need materials that hold up to more wear, heat, and corrosion than conventional tungsten carbide allows.
What's Leeta Materials, Inc.'s solution?
Leeta manufactures ceramic powders and sintered components (tungsten boride, titanium diboride, silicon carbide, boron carbide) tailored for industries like mining, defense, aerospace, and coatings.
What makes Leeta Materials, Inc. different?
They describe a proprietary boride materials and boride cermets platform, paired with a manufacturing process they say enables broader commercial access to higher-performance materials at scale than conventional tungsten carbide.
What makes Leeta Materials, Inc. notable?
Co-founded in 2023 by UC Santa Barbara Ph.D. students Kira Wyckoff (CEO) and Linus Kautzsch (CTO) after winning UCSB's New Venture Competition; backed by KdT Ventures and Voyager.
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