13 November 2025 — Los Angeles, California
By Aston Kacher
Licube Inc. has been awarded First Place at the YPO Global Business Summit (GBS) Deal Competition, held on 13 November 2025 in Los Angeles.
The GBS Deal Competition brings together selected companies from across the global YPO network to present before leading business owners, family offices, and private investors. YPO is the world’s largest community of chief executives — more than 35,000 CEOs across 150+ countries — making the summit one of the most concentrated gatherings of private capital and operating experience in the world.
Licube’s founder and CEO presented the company’s vision and technology — an electrodialysis-based platform for ultra-high-purity lithium production and lithium isotope separation — and the demand pulling it forward across batteries, semiconductors, fusion energy, and advanced nuclear.
Being recognized as first among a global field of high-growth companies — judged by investors rather than a technical panel — is a strong signal of Licube’s investability and commercial readiness, not just its science.
The recognition adds to a string of milestones for Licube as it scales from laboratory validation toward pilot-scale production.
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Source: YPO Global Business Summit