Radify Metals (Rareform Metals Inc.)

A seed-stage startup trying to reduce separated rare earth oxides directly to metal with non-equilibrium hydrogen plasma, producing water rather than fluoride or carbon by-products. Laboratory stage.

Points to check

Facts from the sources on this page that a reader should weigh before relying on the company's own figures.

Laboratory stage: no metal output, purity or yield has been published.
Published studies find samarium oxide essentially unreduced by hydrogen up to 900 °C; the company's approach relies on plasma, and no kilogram-scale result has been published.

At a glance

Founded: 2025 — Registered in California as Rareform Metals Inc. on November 6, 2025 and renamed Radify Metals before April 2026. Co-founded by Zach Detweiler (CEO) and Dan Bullard.
Headquarters: Campbell, California, United States
Ownership: Private. Seed funding of just under $3 million from Overture, Founders Inc., Mana Ventures and Acequia Capital (April 2026). The CEO holds a Cyclotron Road fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (cohort 2026).
Stage: Early stage. Laboratory stage with about $3 million of seed funding; no metal output has been demonstrated publicly.
Listing: Private.
Revenue: Not publicly disclosed. This company does not publish revenue and no named third party has published an estimate of it.

Capacity

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What	Figure	Status	As of
Rare earth metal (dysprosium and samarium first), hydrogen-plasma reduction	several kilograms a day targeted by the end of 2026; a pilot reactor of up to 100 kg/day, with no date or site. No output demonstrated publicly.	Announced	Apr 2026

Narrative

Radify says its compact hydrogen plasma reactors remove oxygen from metal oxides in a single step, leaving metal and water. Its first targets named in the April 2026 funding coverage are dysprosium and samarium, with the reactor parameters retunable for other metals. Rare earth oxides are among the most thermodynamically stable oxides, and molecular hydrogen does not reduce them; the company's approach depends on atomic and excited hydrogen in a plasma, and it has not published yield, purity, oxygen or hydrogen content, or energy per kilogram. It raised just under $3 million in seed funding in April 2026 and targets several kilograms of metal a day by the end of 2026. It depends on separated oxide from other companies and has announced no feedstock or customer agreements.

Where public sources disagree

TechCrunch (April 2026) names dysprosium and samarium as the first target metals; a Korean trade article the next day names neodymium and dysprosium.
One startup database lists a $2 million seed in January 2023, a $1.1 billion valuation and a 2021 founding; the company's California registration is dated November 2025 and primary coverage describes a first seed round of just under $3 million in April 2026.

Sources

Radify's plasma reactors could break China's dominance of rare earth elements — TechCrunch (2026-04-09)
Zach Detweiler, fellow profile — Cyclotron Road, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2026-07)
Cyclotron Road welcomes 11 new entrepreneurial fellows — Berkeley Lab News Center (2026-07-16)
Rareform Metals Inc. registration — BizProfile (California filing B20250373858) (2025-11-06)
Radify Metals portfolio page — Founders Inc. (2026-09-24)
Company profile — PitchBook (2026-05-13)
H2-TPR study of lanthanide oxide reducibility — Journal of Cluster Science (2025)

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