A Los Angeles, California-based startup called Clairity Technologies has raised $6.75 million in seed money to create carbon dioxide removal devices.
Initialized Capital and Lowercarbon Capital co-led the round.
The money will be used by the business to provide scalable, reasonably priced carbon dioxide removal technologies.
Glen Meyerowitz founded Clairity Technology in September of 2022. Clairity creates systems that use accelerated natural chemistry in engineered systems to remove gigatons of CO2 for long-term sequestration, requiring less energy and infrastructure than competing techniques.
With an ambition to remove billions of tons of CO2, the firm works on scalable direct air capture (DAC) devices that employ low-carbon intensity energy to collect and sequester CO2 from the atmosphere over time.
Clairity collaborated with CarbonBuilt to validate this innovative technology. CarbonBuilt’s technology uses ambient CO2 to produce ultra-low carbon concrete products that have an embodied carbon reduction of 70–100%.
The firms finished a demonstration project wherein CarbonBuilt’s process received direct input of CO2 captured by Clairity. The low-carbon binder from CarbonBuilt, which is an alternative to high-carbon cement, chemically reacted with it there, causing it to be permanently sequestered in the completed concrete block.
