Lowercarbon Capital

2024 was a banner year across the carbon removal industry, and especially here at Vaulted Deep! 🚀 We’re incredibly proud to announce we’ve just achieved a big milestone -- 10,000 tonnes of durable carbon removal (CDR) — just over a year since activating our Great Plains facility in Hutchinson, Kansas.    We learned an amazing amount in our first year -- from navigating permitting, to processing new waste types, to scaling hiring at our facilities. There have been some deeply challenging, and also immensely rewarding, moments across the year. Here’s to an even bigger 2025—thank you to our partners, teammates, and supporters for making it happen! 🙌  #CarbonRemoval #ClimateAction Julia Reichelstein Omar Abou-Sayed

The world’s first grid-scale fusion power plant now has a home. We’ve announced the location for ARC in Chesterfield County, Virginia. We'll start generating energy in the early 2030s, the start of a massive shift toward clean, zero-carbon power that's available on demand. It'll transform the energy industry as we know it. Hear from our CEO Bob Mumgaard on this incredible milestone: https://bit.ly/4gF0s1c #FusionEnergy #PowerMoves

It’s been a momentous week at Stand, and we’re thrilled to announce that we’re opening our first software engineering role. If you or someone you know is passionate about building technology to solve real-world challenges in climate adaptation, we’d love to hear from you. Check out our recent feature in Inc. Magazine to learn more about how we’re reshaping insurance for high-risk homeowners: https://lnkd.in/ezX3gNFF

Sometimes I try to hide my impatience or my age for fear of not being taken seriously... but today they’re both in a headline on CNN so I guess I’ll lean into it. 😂 Thank you Jacopo Prisco and Evan John for featuring Seabound and sharing our story with the world. It’s true that I’m impatient but how could I not be when we consistently break global warming records and show limited signs of slowing emissions? We need urgent action and urgent change even in hard-to-abate sectors like shipping! Shoutout to fellow innovators and partners also featured in this article: Lomar Shipping and lomarlabs, Lynn Loo and the team at the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD), Calcarea, and the OGCI (Oil and Gas Climate Initiative). #maritime #decarbonization #onboardcarboncapture #CCUS

This week property owners in California got some great news. Stand, our new insurance company purpose-built to help owners protect against wildfire and other climate disasters, launched in the All-Too-Golden State. In our latest blog post, Lowercarbon partner Caie Kelley lays out how Stand’s tech enables them to build property owners’ mitigation efforts into their policy pricing, lowering premiums and bringing sanity back to insurance markets in the throes of climate chaos. https://lnkd.in/ebW4ny8T

Meet Stand — the property insurance company that doesn’t quit when climate hits. We’re proud to help launch this company today, co-leading their $30m Series A with Inspired Capital, with participation by Equal Ventures and Convective Capital. Co-founders Dan Preston, Bill Clerico, Sam Shank, and Jason Mueller started with a simple premise: safer homes should be cheaper to insure. Then they built the tech to make that a reality, using advanced physics-driven AI modeling to create incredibly detailed 3D digital twins of individual properties. This high-fidelity modeling enables Stand to create customized resilience plans that keep properties safe in a way that works for owners. With Stand, the more you protect your property, the less you pay in premiums. It almost makes too much sense. As insurance companies abandon homeowners in wildfire-prone areas left and right, Stand is stepping into the void. And putting homeowners in control. https://lnkd.in/eY5MxFKt

We are immensely proud to announce that Milvus Advanced has been selected for the EQT Foundation's Holiday Hope Calendar for 2024, alongside other extraordinary companies. 🚀 Every day, EQT spotlights inspiring founders and startups that are tackling some of the biggest challenges in climate and health. It’s an honor to be recognized for our contributions to these crucial areas. We extend our deepest gratitude to all the dedicated colleagues at Milvus who work tirelessly every day, and to our investors who make it all possible. Your support and hard work are what drive us forward in our mission to innovate and scale sustainable solutions for all. 🧡 Assia Kasdi | Gebrehiwet Abrham, PhD | Jinbei T. | Mario Falsaperna | Neha K. | Dr. Micol Chiesa Churchill | Sarah S. | Alfred Antony | Eduardo Brünger Paperini | Devika Thapar | Ale Maiano | Christina Chang | Malak Abu Sharkh | Clea Kolster, PhD | Stefano Bernardi | Francesco Moiraghi | Vicky Regan | Leif Danielsen #MilvusAdvanced #EQTfoundation #climateaction #nanomaterials #industrialization #greenenergy #greentech #raremetals

Our sustainable AI infrastructure portco Crusoe is now in the big leagues - they just announced a monster $600M Series D led by Sean Liu at Founders Fund (also an alum of another Lowercarbon Capital portco Solugen). For the last two years, Crusoe has been building data centers optimized for AI that harness large-scale clean energy. As it turns out, delivering the lowest cost of compute today means powering up with renewables. The team has 15+ gigawatts in development around the world, including in places like Abilene, Texas which will see $1B+ injected into their local economy over the next two decades! On top of the funding news, Crusoe has also publicly launched their Crusoe Cloud platform, which offers on-demand compute that's purpose built for AI model training and machine learning workloads. Learn more at crusoe.ai/cloud. Don't take my word for it, going to point you to this savage Peter Thiel quote: "The biggest risk with AI is that we don't go big enough. Crusoe is here to liberate us from the island of limited ambition." Congrats to Chase Lochmiller and team. Read more here from The Wall Street Journal. #tech #climatetech #AI #compute #cloud #energy #renewables

Sustainable is just better, stronger, cheaper. I love to see it. Woodoo's STACK product is available today. It's already replacing reinforced concrete in Switzerland. And it's poised to sweep across Europe's industrial buildings. Way to go, Timothée!

More tailwinds for Commonwealth Fusion Systems.