Electra (legal name Electrasteel, Inc.) is a Boulder, Colorado clean-industrial company founded in 2020 that is reinventing ironmaking. Instead of smelting iron ore with fossil fuels in a blast furnace, Electra uses an electrochemical process — an acidic leach plus electrowinning driven by renewable electricity — to dissolve a broad range of iron ores, including low-grade and previously uncommercialized ores, and plate out 99% pure iron at roughly 60°C while recovering high-value co-minerals and emitting oxygen. The modular design lets units be added as building blocks for rapid scaling and lets the process follow intermittent renewable power. Electra has raised over $200M from Rio Tinto, BHP Ventures, POSCO, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund, Capricorn and Lowercarbon Capital, runs a pilot plant in Boulder, and is building a demonstration plant in Colorado. It is an industrial manufacturer with no public developer program: as of this profile it publishes no API, developer portal, documentation, machine-readable specification, or /.well-known discovery surface.
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aid: electra
name: Electra
description: 'Electra (legal name Electrasteel, Inc.) is a Boulder, Colorado clean-industrial company founded in 2020 that
is reinventing ironmaking. Instead of smelting iron ore with fossil fuels in a blast furnace, Electra uses an electrochemical
process — an acidic leach plus electrowinning driven by renewable electricity — to dissolve a broad range of iron ores,
including low-grade and previously uncommercialized ores, and plate out 99% pure iron at roughly 60°C while recovering high-value
co-minerals and emitting oxygen. The modular design lets units be added as building blocks for rapid scaling and lets the
process follow intermittent renewable power. Electra has raised over $200M from Rio Tinto, BHP Ventures, POSCO, Breakthrough
Energy Ventures, Amazon''s Climate Pledge Fund, Capricorn and Lowercarbon Capital, runs a pilot plant in Boulder, and is
building a demonstration plant in Colorado. It is an industrial manufacturer with no public developer program: as of this
profile it publishes no API, developer portal, documentation, machine-readable specification, or /.well-known discovery
surface.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/electra/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
deliveryModel:
model: saas
open_source: false
commercial: true
callable_host: false
label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
confidence: medium
source:
- pricing
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
source:
- security
generated: '2026-09-02'
method: derived
image: https://www.electra.earth/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/favicon.png
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-04'
modified: '2026-08-04'
tags:
- Company
- Clean Energy
- Climate Tech
- Industrial
- Manufacturing
- Materials
- Iron
- Steel
- Decarbonization
- Electrochemistry
- Mining
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/electra-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://www.electra.earth/
- type: About
url: https://www.electra.earth/our-technology/
- type: Team
url: https://www.electra.earth/our-team/
- type: Careers
url: https://www.electra.earth/careers/
- type: Newsroom
url: https://www.electra.earth/newsroom/
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.electra.earth/terms-conditions/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.electra.earth/privacy-policy/
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/electra-earth
- type: Investors
url: https://forgeglobal.com/electra_stock/
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-08-04'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 2
pass: local-v1
x-contract-discovery:
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result: no-machine-readable-contract
summary: Electra is an industrial clean-iron manufacturer, not a software provider. Its entire public web surface is a nine-page
WordPress marketing site (confirmed against its own Yoast sitemap). No API host, docs host, developer portal, console,
GraphQL surface, MCP server or agent card exists to probe.
hosts_probed:
- www.electra.earth
subdomains_probed:
- host: api.electra.earth
resolves: false
- host: docs.electra.earth
resolves: false
- host: developer.electra.earth
resolves: false
- host: developers.electra.earth
resolves: false
- host: app.electra.earth
resolves: false
- host: status.electra.earth
resolves: false
- host: trust.electra.earth
resolves: false
- host: security.electra.earth
resolves: false
paths_probed:
- path: /openapi.json
status: 404
- path: /openapi.yaml
status: 404
- path: /swagger.json
status: 404
- path: /api-docs
status: 404
- path: /graphql
status: 404
- path: /llms.txt
status: 404
- path: /.well-known/agent-card.json
status: 404
- path: /.well-known/agent.json
status: 404
- path: /robots.txt
status: 200
- path: /sitemap_index.xml
status: 200
disambiguation: Not to be confused with the several unrelated "Electra" API providers — Electra Systems (docs.electra.systems,
energy/IoT device management), Electra Information Systems (financial reconciliation), Electra Coin (ECA cryptocurrency),
or Google's ELECTRA NLP model. None of those are Electrasteel, Inc.
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