28 Best Carbon Removal Startups to Watch in 2026

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Carbon Removal Startups

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There are 28 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $2.1b. The average funding per company in this subset is $74.7m.

Last update to the database: Apr 21, 2026. See changelog.

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$105.0m

Money raised

Solidia Technologies is a Piscataway, New Jersey-based technology company offering solutions for using CO2 for manufacturing construction and industrial products.

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$103.5m

Money raised

Charm Industrial is a company that works to produce reliable, cost-competitive hydrogen from biomass.

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$53.0m

Money raised

Heirloom is a San Francisco-based environmental remediation company founded by Shashank Samala.

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$119.5m

Money raised

Carbon Engineering is building technologies to capture CO2 directly from the atmosphere, and to use that CO2 in the synthesis of clean transportation fuels that displace crude oil.

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$166.0m

Money raised

Carbon capture and storage.

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$24.0m

Money raised

Brilliant Planet is a nature-based system capturing and storing carbon founded in 2013 by Raffael Jovine Ph.D.

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$11.5m

Money raised

Terraton is a San Francisco-based climate tech startup building a full-stack platform for biochar-based carbon removal. Founded by Kevin Gibbs and Greg D’Alesandre, it helps agribusiness operators deploy biochar facilities, generate carbon credits, and scale sustainable climate solutions in emerging markets.

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$1.0b

Money raised

Climeworks is a direct Air Capture (DAC) technology developer founded in 2009 by Christoph Gebald.

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$12.2m

Money raised

Capturing CO2 from the sky and re-selling it for 2x cheaper

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Funding Rounds

$151.6m

Money raised

A carbon sequestration technology and bioplastics company based in Huntington Beach, California, founded in 2003, that uses their technology to capture carbon from greenhouse emissions for production of bioplastics.

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Funding Rounds

$6.0m

Money raised

Carbon Upcycling Technologies Inc. is a Calgary-based carbon capture and storage company developing technologies to turn the carbon into building materials.

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Funding Rounds

$54.0m

Money raised

Climate technology focused on carbon removal by accelerated erosion of silicate rock.

3

Funding Rounds

$77.7m

Money raised

Agreena is a soil carbon program for farmers founded in 2018.

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$10.8m

Money raised

Seabound is a provider of carbon capture system for ships founded in 2021 by Alisha Fredriksson.

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2

Funding Rounds

$42.0m

Money raised

44.01 is a mineralisation technology developer founded in 2020 by Talal Hasan.

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2

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

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Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology to remove carbon dioxide.

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$25.0m

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Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.

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Funding Rounds

$28.8m

Money raised

Supercritical is a carbon removal marketplace

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$14.4m

Money raised

Carbon capture and storage company founded in 2007 and based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. CarbonCure Technologies Inc. provides carbon dioxide sequestering technology to concrete plants in a system for recycling carbon dioxide waste from industrial emitters and incorporating it into concrete products.

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$6.2m

Money raised

ecoLocked is a green concrete manufacturer founded in 2021.

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$3.5m

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C2CNT is a Virginia-based developer of carbon capture and storage technology which uses the captured material to create carbon nanotubes.

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$5.3m

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Global asset management platform for high-integrity carbon projects.

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$6.5m

Money raised

CUR8 is a market-making platform for carbon removal.

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$10.0m

Money raised

Sustaera, Inc. is a Cary, North Carolina-based company founded in 2021.

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$2.2m

Money raised

SeaO2 is a carbon (CO2) removal technology developer founded in 2021 by Ruben Brands.

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Funding Rounds

$4.5m

Money raised

Patch helps clients make their businesses carbon neutral .

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Funding Rounds

$1.4m

Money raised

CERT is a Toronto-based carbon capture and storage company converting CO2 into chemical feedstocks and carbon-based fuels.

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ARK Capture Solutions is a carbon capture technology developer founded in 2024 by Samuel Thiry.

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