7 Best Direct Air Capture Startups to Watch in 2026

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Direct Air Capture Startups

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There are 7 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $1.2b. The average funding per company in this subset is $173.9m.

Last update to the database: Apr 14, 2026. See changelog.

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$119.5m

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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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$1.0b

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

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$13.0m

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Limestone-based direct air capture (DAC) technology developer to remove carbon from the atmosphere.

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$6.0m

Money raised

Aerleum is a CO2 capture and utilization technology developer founded in 2023 by Sébastien Fiedorow .

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$17.0m

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Direct air capture (DAC) technology developer to remove carbon dioxide.

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$7.5m

Money raised

Provider of direct air capture (DAC) technologies for CO2 removal.

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$16.2m

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Phlair is a hydrolyzer-based direct air capture (DAC) technology developer founded in 2022 by Steffen Garbe, Malte Feucht and Paul Teufel .

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