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Kenya’s Octavia gets $3.9M seed to remove carbon from air
Octavia Carbon has closed a 3.9 million seed round and received $1.1 million in advance sale of carbon credits.
Octavia, founded in Kenya two years ago, builds DAC machines that it uses to capture carbon, a greenhouse gas that is the biggest contributor of global warming, from the air for storage underground. Image Credits: Octavia CarbonFreimüller said the geology of Kenya was one of the reasons the startup set up operations locally, explaining that the country’s Rift Valley region has the right rock formation for carbon storage. His startup has since grown to a team of 60, 40 of whom are engineers doing research and development, with the others focusing on bench scale chemistry, which involves testing materials, methods and chemical processes.
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