maximizing biomass on low quality land
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Living Carbon is a climate-tech public benefit corporation focused on restoring degraded land through reforestation, selling high-integrity carbon credits, and developing biomass feedstock products; no public official GitHub or X account surfaced in the reviewed sources.
Primary product
Nature-based carbon removal projects and carbon credits from degraded-land reforestation
Founded
2019
Headquarters
Hayward, California, United States
Team size
11-50
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Environmental Services
Sub-industry
Climate tech / nature-based carbon removal and reforestation
Offices
1 job at Living Carbon
Business model
Stage
late-stage growth / project finance
Total raised
$549.1M
Latest round
Project finance + direct investment · Apr 2026
Latest amount
$513M
Leadership
CEO, Co-founder
Chief Science Officer
Chief Product Officer
Chief of Staff
Land Partnerships Lead
Kevin Kelly
VP of Carbon Solutions
Founders
Co-founder, CTO
Mission-driven climate-tech PBC with a science-heavy, cross-functional team; emphasizes inclusivity, multicultural representation, and work on high-impact environmental restoration.
Work style
Flexible
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public job postings show salary bands around $100k-$125k for project forester/analysis roles and $100k-$110k for nursery management, plus competitive compensation and healthcare, dental, and vision insurance.
Benefits
Pricing
Long-term carbon-credit offtakes and project-finance-backed reforestation contracts, plus custom carbon projects and biomass feedstock agreements.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M
Estimated monthly visits
15.1K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Reuters noted campaigner opposition and concern about unintended consequences of genetically tweaking trees in Living Carbon's earlier biotech work; later company material says current carbon-removal projects use native species.
SourceThe Next Web · May 2026
Independent coverage highlighted the scale of the Octopus-Living Carbon deal and the Symbiosis-related purchases by Google, Meta, and McKinsey.
Living Carbon · Apr 2026
Living Carbon said Octopus Energy Generation will provide $500M of project finance and nearly $13M of direct investment, backing up to 50 million tons of CO2 removal over 40 years and expanding long-term carbon-removal scale.
Octopus Energy · Apr 2026
Octopus confirmed the $500M US project-finance commitment and nearly $13M direct investment into Living Carbon, framing it as part of a broader US clean-energy push.
Symbiosis Coalition · Mar 2026
Google, Meta, and McKinsey contracted 131,240 tonnes of carbon removal over 10 years from Living Carbon’s Appalachian reforestation projects under Symbiosis’ first RFP.
Living Carbon · Apr 2025
Living Carbon announced a 1.4 million-tonne Microsoft offtake for reforestation of 25,000 acres of degraded Appalachian land, verified under Isometric’s Reforestation Protocol.