Brazilian-American climate tech Terradot raised a $58M Series A round led by Kleiner Perkins’s Chairman John Doerr. Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund, Google, Cisco Foundation, Kleiner Perkins, Floodgate, Acre Venture Partners, Gigascale Capital, Valor Capital Group, Ponderosa Ventures, Sheryl Sandberg, Tom Bernthal, and George Roberts, also participated in the round.
Terradot removes carbon from the atmosphere by applying silicate rock powder in agricultural soils in a process called Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW).
Terradot will use the funds to deliver on its contracts, acquire new infrastructure, and develop new software products.
“Our goal is to build the scientific and technological foundation to make carbon removal a viable and scalable solution globally, especially in tropical regions where rock weathering has the greatest potential,” said James Kanoff, Terradot’s co-founder and CEO.
Founded in 2022, Terradot is running pilot operations in Brazil and has contracts with Google and the Frontier Climate initiative.
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