LinkedIn · Aug 2023
Holy Grail announced carbon credits availability on Puro.earth and said Project Moonstone’s initial scope targeted 2,000 tonnes in 2025-2026 and 100,000 tonnes in 2027.
Company research
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Overview
Holy Grail is a 2019 San Francisco-area climate-tech startup building modular direct-air-capture scrubbers that use electricity at ambient temperature and pressure to capture CO2; it initially monetizes via carbon credits and aims to sell modular capture units to commercial and consumer customers.
Primary product
Modular electrochemical direct-air-capture (DAC) scrubbers / cells
Founded
2019
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Direct air carbon capture / carbon removal
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
Palo Alto, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
Business model
carbon credits
carbon removal project development
sale of modular capture hardware
future direct-to-customer device sales
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$3.2M
Latest round
Seed · Jun 2021
Latest amount
$2.7M
People & investors
Founders
Founder and former CTO
Work & culture
Mission-driven and highly technical, with a strong climate/sustainability focus and a hiring-oriented tone that emphasizes building a large new carbon-removal industry.
Product & market
Pricing
Starts by selling carbon credits from capture projects; longer term, sells modular scrubbers/devices to commercial customers and eventually consumers.
Differentiators
- —Uses electricity instead of heat or pressure
- —Operates at ambient temperature and pressure
- —Modular and stackable design
- —Does not require large-scale deployment to be cost-effective
- —Focuses on raw CO2 capture rather than conversion
- —Designed for decentralized deployment and simple MRV
- —Above-ground solid storage / mineralized output
Technology
React
Python
Google Cloud
AutoCAD
MATLAB
prototyping
Customers
commercial customers
individual consumers
carbon-credit buyers
Competitors
Climeworks
Carbyon
Global Thermostat
Carbon Engineering
Verdox
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M
Latest news
Carbon Credits · Aug 2022
A profile of Holy Grail’s modular DAC technology, emphasizing electricity-driven capture, stackable cells, and a carbon-credits-first commercialization plan.
Medium · Jul 2021
The company announced its mission, described its first modular stackable cell product, and framed hiring around building a large carbon-removal industry.
CleanTechnica · Jul 2021
Nuno Pereira discussed the company’s origin, its electricity-based capture method, and the intention to sell carbon credits first while building toward broader deployment.
TechCrunch · Jun 2021
TechCrunch reported Holy Grail’s $2.7M seed round, its modular DAC approach, and the plan to start with carbon credits before selling scrubbers to commercial and eventually consumer customers.
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