Big changes are made by those willing to make big bets. Google has made one of the biggest bets in the ERW space. Thank you Randy Spock, Reilly O'Hara, Emily Ma and the entire Google team for your vision to advance the science and scale the potential of Enhanced Rock Weathering as a global climate solution. This collaboration, born out of the Frontier coalition, is a significant step in that mission, and a testament to the way that Frontier’s AMC is paving the way for the wider market. Check out Google’s blog to learn more about our partnership and the important work ahead! https://lnkd.in/grVPg65J
Terradot
Environmental Services
San Francisco, CA 3,445 followers
Transforming nature’s most powerful permanent carbon removal process into a global climate solution through ERW.
About us
Over millions of years, silicate rock weathering has regulated Earth’s climate. By crushing silicate rocks and spreading them on agricultural soils - an approach called Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) - we can accelerate Earth’s natural process into a solution capable of addressing the urgency of climate change. Existing agricultural and silicate rock sites - namely 5,000+ global silicate rock quarries surrounded by agricultural land - have the potential to remove billions of tonnes of CO2 with enhanced rock weathering. Despite this potential, ERW hasn’t scaled given the extraordinary scientific, technological, and operational challenges involved. Terradot, founded out of the Stanford ecosystem, is addressing these challenges by advancing the science, building the technology, and assembling the coalition needed to make this potential a reality. We’ve started in Brazil – one of the world’s most optimal locations for ERW thanks to its tropical soils, strength in agriculture, and clean electricity grid. There, we are building the most ambitious ERW hub to date. This hub will drive the necessary breakthroughs in ERW science, ensuring every tonne of carbon dioxide removed is measured and tracked with certainty. These insights will power digital tools for the optimization and verification of carbon removal projects, enabling the replicability of these hubs globally If successful, this approach will uniquely and rapidly catalyze global-scale carbon removal, enabling the transformation of [300] such quarries in Brazil and [5,000+] global quarries into carbon removal hubs. Terradot has assembled a growing team of leading scientists and engineers with decades of published research (over 100,000 citations on ERW) and hands-on expertise in related fields, providing unmatched experience to drive advancements in ERW.
- Website
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https://terradot.earth/
External link for Terradot
- Industry
- Environmental Services
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2022
Locations
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San Francisco, CA, US
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São Paulo, BR
Employees at Terradot
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Scott Miller
Climate Activist. Political Enthusiast. Go-To-Market Leader, People Manager, Individual Contributor | x-WhatsApp/Meta | x-TransferWise | x-True…
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John Foster
Trusted Advisor | HR Leader | Organization Design Expert
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Anjali Marok
Advisory Board @ Terradot | Ex-Head of ESG @ Corteva
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Shawn Benner
Senior Scientist, Terradot
Updates
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Before a market exists, someone has to go first. We’re thrilled to have Frontier as our first large-scale carbon removal buyer with a $27 million dollar purchase, helping us take critical steps toward near-term, high-integrity, and affordable carbon removal. This collaboration is validating the science behind Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) and accelerating its deployment to remove 90,000 tons of CO₂ by 2029 in Brazil—one of the most promising regions for ERW. Thank you, Frontier, for believing in us and leading the way. Together, we’re proving what’s possible. Check out Frontier’s blog to learn more about our partnership! 🌍 Frontier has facilitated purchases on behalf of Frontier founding members Stripe, Google, Shopify, and McKinsey & Company Sustainability as well as Autodesk, H&M Group, Workday, and Salesforce. Also, Aledade Inc, Canva, Match Group, Samsara, SKIMS, Skyscanner, WISE, and Zendesk have purchased via Watershed's partnership with Frontier Judy Savitskaya, Jane Flegal, Zeke Hausfather, Joanna Klitzke, Hannah Bebbington, Nan Ransohoff, Andrew Shea, Florian Maganza, Molly Niffenegger #CarbonRemoval #EnhancedRockWeathering #ClimateTech #CDR #Frontier #Terradot
Terradot signs $27M deal with Frontier buyers to scale enhanced rock weathering in Brazil
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Today, we’re excited to officially launch Terradot with $58.2M in funding! We’re transforming Earth’s most powerful natural carbon removal process—silicate rock weathering—into a scalable climate solution through Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW). 🌍 Why we’re excited: $58.2M in funding led by John Doerr, joined by Sheryl Sandberg & Tom Bernthal, George Roberts, Microsoft's Climate Innovation Fund, Google, Cisco Foundation, Kleiner Perkins, Floodgate, Acre Venture Partners, Gigascale Capital, Valor Capital Group, Ponderosa Ventures and others. Nearly 300,000 tonnes of carbon removal sold, including a $27M purchase by Stripe's Frontier Climate buyers for 90,000 tonnes and Frontier member Google’s largest-ever single CDR purchase—200,000 tonnes. Starting in Brazil, an optimal location thanks to its tropical climate, agricultural scale, and clean energy grid. We believe ERW has the greatest potential to deliver gigaton-scale, permanent carbon removal this decade. But achieving that potential will be far harder than most realize. That’s why we built Terradot: to advance the hard science and build the technology required to activate the thousands of existing silicate rock quarries worldwide into scalable CDR hubs. Backed by the world’s strongest coalition—spanning industry, academia, and government—we’re taking a bold bet on unlocking ERW’s massive potential. The road ahead won’t be easy: millions of soil samples, snake-filled fields, and no guarantees of success await. The stakes couldn’t be higher. 🚀 This is just the beginning. If you’re a scientist pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, an engineer ready to build, or an operator obsessed with execution—come join us. Let’s work together to stabilize Earth’s climate. 🔗 Join Us: https://lnkd.in/gm-7gCEf 🔗 Google’s Blog Post: https://lnkd.in/grVPg65J 🔗 Frontier’s Blog Post: https://lnkd.in/gG--y6xn 🔗 Bloomberg: https://lnkd.in/gHBMqsb2 🔗 Brazil Coverage: https://lnkd.in/gjBQS6rQ #ClimateTech #CarbonRemoval #EnhancedRockWeathering #Terradot #ClimateSolutions #CDR
Carbon removal startup Terradot raised $58.2M from Google, John Doerr, Sheryl Sandberg, others
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Terradot will be one of the featured start-ups at the World Agri-Tech South America Summit on June 18-19! I'll be there, alongside our Field Operations Lead Igor Mascarenhas, looking forward to chatting about gigaton-scale CDR to regenerate land.
About Us - World Agri-Tech South America Summit
https://worldagritechsouthamerica.com
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Meet 16 home-grown and international start-ups solving the biggest issues for the South American agri-food system showcasing their solutions at #WorldAgriTech South America: https://lnkd.in/eukqTtVx These pioneers behind ready-to-scale solutions are developing: 🍄 Fungicides for tropical crops 🌱 Inoculated seeds designed for extreme environments 🛰️ dMRV platforms de-risking nature investments 🦠 AI-powered outbreak forecasting Cálice CroBio® Elytron Effatha Agro LandPrint metaBIX Biotech Nera Nunatak Biotech Nutristrahl Sensix Surefarming SpaceAG Global Terradot Unibaio Vexxel VM Agritech Inc.
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Yesterday, I had the privilege of attending Stanford's Scaling Sustainability Innovation, an event hosted by the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and Stanford University Graduate School of Business. The event showcased the brilliance of numerous talents who are leveraging cutting-edge technologies to combat the climate crisis. Here are some of the remarkable start-ups that presented their innovative solutions: C-Zero - Produces hydrogen from natural gas, with solid carbon as a byproduct - I just loved this idea! It seems perfect for O&G companies! Fourier - Makes modular electrolyzers that scale H2 generation to any size Jinetics Inc. - Generators that supply 80% more energy and 50% less carbon using a coupled fuel cell Vaulted Deep - Geologic sequestration of organic waste for permanent carbon removal Ebb Carbon - Removes CO2 from the air by increasing alkalinity of sea water Blue Planet - Does CO2 sequestration from any source through mineralization and turns it into building materials Boomitra - Uses AI and satellite images to assess soil carbon credits across the globe Working Trees - Promotes agroforestry as a nature-based solution by connecting companies to farmers and by supplying an app that makes monitoring the trees much cheaper for reporting purposes Circularity Fuels - makes fuels from CO2 air + renewable energy Terradot - removes carbon from the air using enhanced rock weathering Congratulations to all the entrepreneurs and Stanford University for promoting this event!