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This start-up is removing carbon from a polluted New York City river
Projects to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by making the oceans less acidic are popping up all over the world – New Scientist visited one in New York City’s East river
The startup launched a novel pilot in New York City last month, and will look to remove 100 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year from its saltwater tidal strait.
Why Vycarb is focused on capturing carbon dioxide from the East River
Press · Oct 21, 2024
Vycarb New York City Pilot Paves The Way For Scalable Carbon Removal
Vycarb, a company specializing in carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and storage, has unveiled a groundbreaking pilot project in New York City’s East River.
Press · Oct 21, 2024
A Brooklyn-based carbon removal and storage technology firm has launched a pilot project in New York City's East River aimed at showcasing the company's scalable and cost-effective carbon capture system.
Brooklyn startup floats carbon removal project in NYC's East River
Founders Factory has established a new Mining Tech Accelerator as part of its partnership with Rio Tinto to find breakthrough technologies in the mining industry to support the miner’s mission to find better ways to provide the materials the world needs.
Press · Oct 16, 2024
Founders Factory and Rio Tinto to support six technology startups
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Meet The Rio Tinto Backed Startups Set To Decarbonize And Transform Mining
Mining giant Rio Tinto made global headlines with its recent acquisition of Arcadium Lithium for $6.7 billion, making it one of the top three lithium miners in the world.
Twynam leads Vycarb’s Pre-Seed Round to rapidly scale ocean carbon removal targeting <US$100 per tonne
Twynam is thrilled to make our fifth investment from the Twynam Earth Fund, leading Vycarb’s Pre-Seed raise.
Weltweit leiden die Ozeane an einer CO₂-Überdosis – und versauern. Forscher warnen vor dem Überschreiten einer weiteren planetaren Grenze. Derweil will das US-Startup Vycarb mit seiner Anlage in New York CO₂ im Meer binden - und die Versauerung verhindern. Investoren glauben an die Idee.
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Press · May 1, 2024
Expanding carbon removal horizons - Milkywire selects thirteen new cutting-edge projects.
After an extraordinarily competitive selection process, Milkywire has selected new carbon dioxide removal (CDR) suppliers for the Climate Transformation Fund.
Press · April 5, 2024
A Carbon Capture Startup in the Fight Against Climate Change
The summer of 2023 was the Northern Hemisphere’s hottest in recorded history. Climate scientists say the extreme heat, combined with other weather phenomena, contributed to this summer’s epic ocean storms, wildfires, flooding, and droughts.
Press · Jan 26, 2024
Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal: Issue Brief
The Carbon Business Council published an issue brief about Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR). Given its enormous scale, the ocean has an outsized potential role to play in advancing carbon removal to the level required to meet Paris Agreement targets.
Press · Feb 2024
Green Economy Action Plan
The action plan contains six new contributions to our understanding of New York City’s green economy and a roadmap to reducing carbon emissions and creating a more climate-conscious city
Press · Jul 13, 2023
New tech aims to make the ocean healthier for marine life
Overabundance of dissolved carbon dioxide poses a threat to marine life. A new system detects elevated levels of the greenhouse gases and mitigates them on the spot.
Press · Feb 5, 2025
To Scale Carbon Removal And Storage, Measure—Don’t Model—The Carbon Cycle
Carbon dioxide removal and storage (CDR) is an extremely promising opportunity for our climate and economy—yet the budding industry has attracted its fair share of skeptics.
Press · Mar 10, 2025
Vycarb Strives to Scale Carbon Removal Using Water, And It's Starting in NYC
The Brooklyn-based startup Vycarb aims to capture and remove 100 metric tons of carbon using an innovative carbon dioxide removal system and water from New York City's East River. And it's getting precise measurements along the way.
Press · June 26, 2025
Vycarb - CDR Innovator Showcase
'Unbound Showcase' is a globe-spanning series of interviews with pioneers of carbon dioxide removal (CDR). We’re questioning innovators, business leaders, policymakers, academics, buyers and investors taking on the challenge of our lifetime - gigaton-scale carbon removal from the earth's atmosphere.
Press · June 26, 2025
Start-ups capture carbon dioxide in New York City
C&EN senior editor Craig Bettenhausen reports from New York City, visiting the climate chemistry start-ups Aircela, which is testing an all-in-one system to convert atmospheric carbon dioxide into gasoline, and Vycarb, which is using alkaline minerals to remove dissolved CO2 from the East River.
Press · August 25, 2025
Accelerating the ocean’s carbon sink with Vycarb’s sensor-driven system
For decades, carbon dioxide removal was something that was only required in confined spaces – like mines, submarines and spacecraft. But, as climate change accelerated in the late 20th century, scientists began investigating the possibility of removing this greenhouse gas directly from the air and permanently storing it.
Scientists Flag Earth’s Carbon Storage Less Than Expected, What Next?
Press · September 12, 2025
The startup ecosystem in marine carbon removal, in particular, requires more support to de-risk early investments. Vycarb, for instance, has developed a carbon management technology with sensors that can check for optimal carbon content in water, monitoring bicarbonate levels they produce when CO₂ is stored in water bodies.
Press · September 25, 2025
Idemitsu Invests in U.S. Startup Vycarb Advancing Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) Through Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement
Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Noriaki Sakai; hereinafter “Idemitsu”) today announced that, in mid-September, it invested in Vycarb Inc. (Headquarters: United States; hereinafter “Vycarb”), a startup developing carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies using ocean alkalinity enhancement* (OAE).
Companies to Watch: Climate Tech Startups Helping NYC — and the Globe — Go Green
Press · September 25, 2025
Vycarb builds carbon capture and storage technology systems that safely, permanently, and measurably store CO2 using water. We are currently demonstrating and optimizing the process at our pilot in the East River at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and planning scaled applications to provide a low-cost solution to permanently store CO2 across a wide range of settings.
Vycarb Secures $5M To Commercialize Its Water-Based, Affordable CO2 Capture And Storage Tech
Press · Oct 6, 2025
Brooklyn-based company Vycarb has secured $5 million in seed funding that will fuel the advancement of its innovative water-based CO2 removal and storage technology.
Press · Oct 6, 2025
Brooklyn’s Vycarb nets $5M to scale sensor-driven carbon storage
Industries like cement, steel, and shipping are under growing pressure to cut their carbon footprints, but traditional carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies often come with big price tags and heavy infrastructure demands.
Press · Oct 6, 2025
Exclusive: Vycarb raises $5M for ocean carbon tech
Vycarb, a startup capturing and storing carbon dioxide in oceans and rivers, has raised a $5 million seed round to build larger systems on coastal industrial sites.
SGInnovate backs $5m round in US carbon capture firm Vycarb
Press · Oct 6, 2025
Vycarb, a Brooklyn-based climate tech company, has raised US$5 million in a seed round led by Twynam, with participation from MOL Switch, Hatch Blue, Clocktower Ventures, Idemitsu, and SGInnovate.
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Press · Oct 6, 2025
Vycarb, a carbon capture and storage platform, has raised $5M in Seed funding led by Twynam Agricultural Group. Founded by Garrett Boudinot in 2022, Vycarb has now raised a total of $5M in reported equity funding.
SGInnovate backs $5m funding in climate tech startup Vycarb
Press · Oct 7, 2025
SGInnovate, the Singapore government-backed deep tech investor and ecosystem builder, has backed a $5-million seed funding round in US-based climate tech startup Vycarb.
SGInnovate backs Vycarb’s US$5M seed round to accelerate water-based carbon capture
Press · Oct 8, 2025
Vycarb aims to accelerate commercialisation, positioning its water-based CCS system as a critical enabler of industrial decarbonisation
Vycarb Raises $5 Million to Capture and Store CO2 in Water
Press · Oct 9, 2025
Climate technology start-up Vycarb announced that it has raised $5 million in seed funding to scale its low-cost, water-based carbon capture and storage (CCS) system.
Vycarb Raises $5 Million to Capture and Store CO2 in Water
Press · Oct 9, 2025
Climate technology start-up Vycarb announced that it has raised $5 million in seed funding to scale its low-cost, water-based carbon capture and storage (CCS) system.
Investors from Asia-Pacific back Vycarb to capture marine carbon
Press · Oct 9, 2025
The company has applied its approach in New York’s East River, where it is studying the environmental impacts of its process and testing its CO2 measurement sensors.
Podcasts
Podcast · March 25, 2025
Ocean Carbon Capture: How VyCarb Is Unlocking Climate Solutions from the Sea
In this episode of Catching Carbon, we sit down with Garrett Boudinot, Founder and CEO of VyCarb, to dive into a new frontier in carbon removal: oceanic carbon capture. Garrett shares how VyCarb’s cutting-edge technology is turning the tide on carbon emissions by extracting CO₂ directly from seawater—offering a scalable, nature-inspired solution that could redefine the future of climate tech.
Podcast · March 4, 2025
Carbonsations with Violet George
Garrett set out to tackle the issue of most CDR solutions being based on assumption and has presented the world with a means of precisely calculating the amount of CO2 removed from the atmosphere via Vycarb's unique water-based approach.
Podcast · Oct 21, 2024
Climate Tech Products that Make the World a Better Place
With the ocean as the largest carbon sink, Vycarb's cost-effective technology enables CO₂ removal (such as from a coastal region) and accelerates the natural reaction of converting carbon dioxide (CO₂) to bicarbonate (HC03), which dissolves easily in water and can be stored in the same location as its source.
Podcast · Jun 26, 2024
Vycarb CEO on Scaling Impactful Climate Solutions
The scale and urgency of the transformation required to fight climate change has never been more clear. In this episode of Product Talk hosted by Silicon Valley Bank (a Division of First Citizens Bank) Climate Tech SVP Maggie Wong, Vycarb CEO Garrett Boudinot speaks on his journey developing carbon removal technology and building his startup.
Podcast · Nov 17, 2023
Climate Pioneers - S4: E1. Garrett Boudinot from Vycarb
On our first episode of Building a Better Future:Stories from ClimateTech Founders on the East Coast, I spoke with Garrett Boudinot from Vycarb.
Podcast · March 4, 2025
“Most Carbon Removal is Based on Assumptions,” Garrett Boudinot, Vycarb CEO
In this episode, Garrett Boudinot, Founder and CEO of carbon removal company Vycarb, talks about the importance of accurately measuring CO2. Garrett set out to tackle the issue of most CDR solutions being based on assumption and has presented the world with a means of precisely calculating the amount of CO2 removed from the atmosphere via Vycarb's unique water-based approach.
Podcast · June 25, 2025
Lock it in. Why carbon storage matters.
We all know we need to cut carbon emissions... but what about the carbon that's already out there?
I recently sat down with Garrett Boudinot, founder of Vy-Carb, and he shared a really powerful perspective. He says it's not just about fixing the leaky tap – it's also about mopping up all the water that's already spilled!
Interviews
Interview · Nov 8, 2023
With multiple pilots already live on the US East Coast, Vycarb's modular system uses accelerated alkalinity dissolution to optimize distributed carbon dioxide removal across high-CO₂ waters.
An interview with Garrett Boudinot, Founder of Vycarb
Water-based carbon removal seems like a no-brainer given how much more carbon dioxide oceans are able to store when compared to the earth’s atmosphere.
A Q&A with Garrett of Vycarb
Interview · Nov 4, 2024
Interview · Jan 20, 2025
CEO Garrett Boudinot explains: “Our fully measured system ensures customers know exactly how much CO2 we permanently remove, addressing both environmental and market demands for high-quality offsets.”
Five Environmental Startups Leading The Way In 2025
Interview · Jan 30, 2024
“Our Core Ethos Is That We Have To Couple Measurement With The Removal In Real Time, All The Time” – Garrett Boudinot, Vycarb CEO
In this interview, Garrett Boundinot, founder and CEO of Vycarb, sits down with the Carbon Herald team to share insights on the company’s CDR innovations.
Videos
Video · Nov 2023
This Is CDR Ep. 87: Vycarb with Dr. Garrett Boudinot, CEO
This week we are pleased to welcome Vycarb Founder and CEO Dr. Garrett Boudinot back to the program to discuss the company's innovative approach to decentralized carbon removal through real-time, autonomous, and direct measurement of CO₂ in water.
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