Living Carbon

Living Carbon is a public benefit corporation with a mission to fight climate change by enhancing CO2 capture and storage in trees. We believe that gigaton scale CO2 drawdown will only happen if solutions are both environmentally beneficial and profitable to landowners. Our goal is to responsibly rebalance carbon flux using humanity's unique metacognitive and technical abilities, with a focus on forest biotechnology. We’re backed by some of the most prominent investors in Silicon Valley including, Y Combinator, Felicis Ventures, Sam Altman, and Lower Carbon Capital.

If you believe that climate change is the defining global emergency of the century and want to join an ambitious project that’s working on a biological solution, we’d love to hear from you.

Product Areas: Enhanced CO2 assimilation Photosynthesis enhancement Photorespiration inhibition Increased growth rate and shortened tree growing cycle Cell cycle and developmental controls Balancing growth rate and wood composition Slowed carbon decomposition Enhanced heavy metal accumulation Fire resistance engineering

Key R&D Capabilities include: Tissue culture and transformation Gene discovery & construct design Gene editing methodology Enzymology & protein engineering Analytical capability