Germany’s Planeteers raises seed funding – Silicon Canals

Hamburg-based Planeteers, an organization specialising in carbon seize and storage (CCS), introduced that it closed a single-digit million seed funding. The quantity, nonetheless, stays undisclosed.

The spherical noticed participation from current buyers and new contributors BonVenture, Sensible Vitality Innovationsfonds AG from Vitality 360° AG, and ClimaNow.

Christof Signer, Funding Supervisor at E360°, says, “The imaginative and prescient of Planeteers is a world the place pure processes are used to fight local weather change. This implies lowering carbon emissions and actively eradicating them from the ambiance, which can restore the fragile stability of our planet’s ecosystem. We have been instantly impressed by this imaginative and prescient.”

“Moreover, we’re assured within the skilled founding staff’s functionality to efficiently implement this imaginative and prescient. We’re proud to put money into an organization that not solely addresses CO2 sequestration but additionally presents an answer to counteract ocean acidification.”

Capital utilisation

Planeteers will use the funds to advance its marine carbon dioxide elimination (CDR) know-how primarily based on ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE). 

This funding, which follows vital know-how improvement and business progress, will assist Planeteers scale operations, develop its staff, and expedite its market entry. 

The funds may also help additional improvement of its know-how for environment friendly CO2 elimination and mineralised water manufacturing, reinforcing Planeteers’ dedication to combating local weather change.

Co-founder of Planeteers, Florian Birner, says, “We’re thrilled to have the help of such respected buyers. This funding is a testomony to the potential of our know-how to make a major affect on local weather change.”

Turning CO2 into mineralised water

Planeteers was based in December 2022 by Florian Birner, Frank Rattey, Jens Hartmann, and Florian Brinkmann. The corporate goals to develop a low-cost, scalable carbon seize and storage know-how primarily based on 12 years of analysis.

The know-how developed by the corporate transforms CO2 into mineralised water by neutralising it with limestone and completely storing it within the ocean as hydrogen carbonate, a compound present in pure mineral water.

This course of mimics the pure response the place atmospheric CO2 kinds carbonic acid with rainwater, which then decomposes limestone into bicarbonate. Rivers transport this bicarbonate to the oceans, the place it’s saved for over 100,000 years. 

Planeteers’ know-how accelerates this pure course of, permitting giant quantities of CO2 to be neutralised and saved completely inside minutes, in comparison with the 1000’s of years required for pure limestone weathering.

The corporate says, “Our imaginative and prescient is a world the place pure processes are used to fight local weather change. We envision a future the place carbon emissions aren’t solely decreased but additionally actively faraway from the ambiance, restoring the fragile stability of our planet’s ecosystem.”