Carbon Removal funders

Carbon removal sits next to carbon capture but funds a distinct set of technologies, direct air capture (DAC), enhanced weathering, biochar, bio-oil sequestration, mineralisation, ocean alkalinity enhancement, and biomass carbon removal & storage (BECCS). Public-money pots (DOE Carbon Negative Shot, EU Innovation Fund, UK Track-2) overlap with carbon capture programmes but the offtake-purchase side is where carbon removal lives uniquely. The organisations listed below are the carbon removal funders behind that picture, each with what it backs, where it operates and how it prefers to be approached.

Funders here are mostly government innovation agencies, a small number of climate foundations, and corporate buyers assembling removal portfolios. The corporate buyers matter more than their headcount suggests, since a purchase agreement often unlocks the public co-funding rather than the other way round. Eligibility usually turns on demonstrated durability and on independent verification rather than on organisation type.

This page lists every funder in the Raise Lens directory whose stated focus includes carbon removal. There are currently 17 of them: a mix of public agencies, foundations, development finance institutions, corporate programmes and climate investors. Each profile records what the funder backs, where it operates, whether it is open to unsolicited applications, and the opportunities it has published through Raise Lens.

Funders active in carbon removal include Advanced Research and Invention Agency, Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, Breakthrough Energy and 2 others. The mix matters when you are planning a raise: a public agency and a corporate venture arm fund the same carbon removal work on very different timelines, at different cheque sizes and against different eligibility rules, so the right first approach is rarely the same one.

Funder records are refreshed continuously and enriched from each organisation's own published material, so focus areas and application routes reflect what the funder currently says rather than what it said when the directory was first built. Where a funder runs named programmes, those appear as individual opportunities you can track and save.