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CREW Carbon

Focus

Matter, Energy

Stage

Series A

Why we invested

CREW Carbon is a biological water treatment technology that improves performance, increases reliability and saves money while removing gigatons of carbon from the atmosphere. Every wastewater treatment facility, in every city is addressable via CREW’s carbon removal and storage network. CREW transforms the economics of this infrastructure from public cost centers to revenue generating assets with planetary benefits.

Atmospheric waste management

Gigaton‑scale carbon removal is possible only where three things collide: concentrated streams of carbon waste, existing infrastructure, and permanent, measurable removal. CREW is able to leverage all three. Their enhanced weathering process functions the same way the ocean has converted carbon dioxide into stable bicarbonate for millennia.

Global reactor network

CREW can access 110,000 global wastewater facilities that are built, permitted, and staffed. Implementing a small but tightly controlled process change turns that hardware into a network of carbon removal plants without any additional capital cost while meaningfully improving the economics of each facility. The same design, hardware, and software can roll out across the network, driving a steep learning curve (cost down) on a large installed base.

Founding team

Enhanced weathering can tuck carbon removal into the basic plumbing of the world, leveraging a reaction that the planet already deploys at scale as part of its global thermostat. Jo spent seven years tracing the carbon cycle from rock to river to ocean with the revelation that wastewater plants had been using the necessary chemistry for decades. He built CREW to scale planetary regeneration by treating those basins as unutilised carbon removal infrastructure.

Infrastructure for abundance

CREW Carbon turns carbon removal from an external cost center into a value-add revenue stream. Their end-to-end system improves the underlying performance and economics of public infrastructure across the planet, while removing gigatons of carbon in the most scalable way possible.

Highlights

2022

CREW is founded by Jo Katchinoff and Noah Planavsky

2024

Seed led by Onto, Counteract, Ponderosa Ventures

2024

Signed a $32.2 million offtake agreement with Frontier Climate buyers to remove 71,878 tons of CO₂ between 2025 and 2030

2026

Series A led by Burnt Island Ventures

As a society we have spent decades building amazing wastewater treatment infrastructure to keep our environment safe; now, with CREW’s technology, we can work with utilities to supplement their treatment processes in a way that can measurably remove carbon dioxide — at scale — while improving safe and efficient wastewater treatment.

Jo Katchinoff

Co-founder & CEO, CREW Carbon

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Stage

Series A

Focus

Matter

Energy

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