$100M Prize For Carbon Removal

AirMiners Launchpad accelerates founders towards gigaton scale carbon removal. The program helps founders establish their team, develop business strategy, roadmap their tech, and connect to the broader carbon removal network.

Autodesk is an American multinational software corporation that makes software products and services to help innovators everywhere solve today’s pressing challenges with expertise across the fields of architecture, engineering, construction, design, manufacturing, and entertainment.   

They are contributing in-kind design resources to support teams competing in XPRIZE Carbon Removal. 

The Avatar Carbon Removal Accelerator is a tailor-made super-charger for emerging geosphere based carbon removal technologies. Providing unparalleled industry partnerships from some of the world’s largest energy companies, the entrants will work through a technology co-development roadmap with industry customers, investor and partners alongside UCalgary’s world leading carbon technology eco-system which generated several successful finalists for the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE. Initial cohort of 10 teams will commence October 1 and run through to their early bird application deadline on February 1st bolstering the entrants chance of success by securing industrial partners, investors and technology centers.

Carbon180 is a climate-focused nonprofit on a mission to fundamentally rethink carbon. The organization champions carbon removal technologies and practices through policies rooted in science and justice

Carbon Direct Inc. is a leading carbon management firm that mobilizes scientific expertise, proprietary data, and commercial experience to scale end-to-end services across the carbon ecosystem. We're led by the world's foremost science and we're motivated by purpose: to help organizations make their climate commitments a reality. We believe in going beyond net-zero to full carbon accountability and we're here to chart the path. 

Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies.

Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute (JITRI) is a non-profit organization based in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, which was founded in December 2013. JITRI positions itself at the nexus of scientific research and technological transformation, striving to overcome structural and institutional barriers that restrict scientific and technological advances and exploring new mechanisms to facilitate technology transfer and new channels for to transform scientific and technological achievements into tangible products. In accordance with the concept of "R&D as an industry and technology as a product," JITRI focuses on two main roles. First, it acts as a bridge between universities or scientific research institutions and industry. Secondly, it acts as a bridge between global innovation resources and Jiangsu Province.

Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) is a global integrated business enterprise that develops and operates businesses together with its offices and subsidiaries in approximately 90 countries and regions worldwide, as well as a global network of around 1,700 group companies. MC has 10 Business Groups that operate across virtually every industry: Natural Gas, Industrial Materials, Petroleum & Chemicals Solution, Mineral Resources, Industrial Infrastructure, Automotive & Mobility, Food Industry, Consumer Industry, Power Solution and Urban Development. Through these 10 Business Groups, MC's current activities have expanded far beyond its traditional trading operations to include project development, production and manufacturing operations, working in collaboration with our trusted partners around the globe. Decarbonization is a common interest within the company and therefore Carbon Removal such as Carbon Capture & Utilization has been a joint effort together with multiple groups within the company. With an unwavering commitment to conducting business with integrity and fairness, MC remains fully dedicated to growing its businesses while contributing to a prosperous society.

Ocean Visions is a consortium of leading US oceanographic and academic institutions working in partnership with diverse members of the private sector to catalyze science and engineering research and innovation into real-world applications and scalable solutions to address the growing crisis in our oceans and climate.  

The mission of the Ocean Visions Network is to identify, evaluate, develop, test, demonstrate and ultimately deploy equitable, durable, and scalable solutions to the ocean’s most pressing environmental challenges.  The Network brings together diverse institutions and sectors with a common interest in ocean solutions. 

Puro.earth is a B2B marketplace, standard and registry focused solely on carbon removal. Our mission is to help voluntary corporate buyers mobilize carbon removal at an industrial scale, so we can reach the potential of removing 10 Gigatons of CO2 a year by 2050. Puro.earth provides carbon removal as a service to corporations, by identifying projects, verifying them, issuing CO2 Removal Certificates (CORCs) and helping buyers create a long-term procurement portfolio to reach net zero.  

We provide carbon removal suppliers a way to monetize their climate service by entering the voluntary carbon markets with CORCs. With our Pre-CORC Framework we help early-stage projects get corporate offtake agreements to secure funding and start operations. Aiming at climate and economic impact, Puro.earth is driving forward a global market of carbon negative industries by enabling a new revenue stream to help them scale rapidly.

South Pole, recognised by the World Economic Forum as a Social Enterprise, has been at the forefront of decarbonization since 2006. With its global Climate Solutions platform, South Pole develops and implements comprehensive strategies that turn climate action into long-term business opportunities for companies, governments and organizations around the world. 

South Pole is also a leading project developer, and has provided nearly 1,000 projects in over 50 countries with climate finance to reduce and remove over 170 million tonnes of CO2 emissions, and to provide social benefits to less privileged communities who are particularly vulnerable to climate change. South Pole is also closely involved in the development of the carbon removals marketplace through collaboration with a variety of stakeholders and industry players, on aspects such as demand, supply and certification.

For more information, visit www.southpole.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

Student Energy is a global youth-led organization empowering the next generation of leaders who are accelerating the transition to a sustainable, equitable energy future.