How Summit Lithium’s Amanda Hall emerged from the investment “valley of death”

Eleven words changed the way Amanda Hall thought about her career, and her budding startup: “Why are you doing this? It’s too big for you.” That’s what the Summit Lithium Technologies founder and geophysicist says she was told eight years ago, when she first pitched the ambitious notion of extracting and refining the world’s lithium more sustainably. Now, she told a Startupfest crowd in Montréal on Thursday, those words have fuelled how she built a cleantech company that has raised over $100 mil