Mitico raises $4.3M seed round to capture CO2 using ‘prehistoric chemistry’
The world is in a pickle: Human activity continues to dump too much CO2 into the atmosphere, raising the risk of catastrophic global warming. At the same time, the most…
Lydian Labs can make aviation fuel wherever there’s CO2 and electricity
Jet fuel is a modern wonder, allowing commercial airplanes to carry hundreds of passengers halfway around the world and military aircraft to regularly break the speed of sound. Yet jet…
Turnover Labs is helping chemical plants to reuse their waste CO2
As petrochemical plants and other emitters look to reduce emissions, they’re finding that sopping up and storing all the carbon dioxide they produce doesn’t come cheap. First they have to…
Aerleum plans to turn CO2 directly into fuel for cargo ships and, eventually, airplanes
It only took four phone calls for Sébastien Fiedorow to quit his job as a venture capitalist. The first one came from Marble, a startup studio based in Paris. They…
BaCta is using engineered bacteria to grow natural rubber and slash CO2 emissions
The synthetic biology and precision fermentation space is a hotbed of entrepreneurial activity these days. But it’s not every day you come across a startup that’s using genetic engineering to…
As CO2 emissions from supply chains come into focus, this startup is aiming at farms
There are by now plenty of carbon accounting and emissions management platforms. However, startups tracking emissions problems have tended to go for the lowest-hanging fruit first: the direct greenhouse gas…
NovoNutrients tweaks its bugs to turn CO2 into protein for people and pets
The easiest way for a person to eat carbon dioxide is by consuming vegetables. David Tze wants his startup’s protein to be a close second. Tze’s company, NovoNutrients, has been…