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Terraton wants to be the McDonald’s of biochar
Terraton sees promise in biochar, but the technology has struggled to scale. The startup thinks a franchise model could be what unlocks biochar's potential.
Terraton recently raised a $11.5 million seed round for it’s “business-in-a-box” approach to biochar project development, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. ANA Holdings’ ANA Future Frontier Fund and East Japan Railway Company’s Takanawa Gateway Global Co-Benefits Fund participated along with a number of angel investors, including Google’s Jeff Dean and OpenAI board member Bret Taylor. Along the way, it’s developing a SaaS component to run the plants, measure and verify carbon credits, and sell them to large companies.
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