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Mission Zero
Low-cost carbon capture
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Sustainability
- Manufacturing
- Environmental
- Westminster, London, UK
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Company mission
To reinvent the world's relationship with carbon.
Our take
Mission Zero is a UK-based company that develops machines to remove carbon dioxide from the air, in a process known as direct air capture (DAC). DAC promises to create a more circular carbon economy by capturing carbon and recycling it, but a major challenge for the technology is that the capture process itself can be very energy intensive.
This is where Mission Zero steps in, with a two-step process that works by capturing CO2 in a water-based solvent and then using electrolysis to separate it from the water. This approach has the potential to use 3-5x less energy than other established DAC technologies - a promising step for the technology.
Interestingly, Mission Zero is focusing on selling its DAC units directly, rather than selling associated carbon credits. It believes this approach will require less capital and help it to achieve faster scaling, as it pursues the goal to have one billion tonnes of DAC capability deployed by 2040.
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Benefits
- 30 days of Annual Leave
- 3 months Paternity/Maternity Leave
- £500 annual Personal Development Grant
- Unlimited mental health support
- Employee Share Options Scheme
- Christmas holidays office closure
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employer-matched contributions to global re-wilding programme
- Opportunities to directly impact where our company is headed
- A high-growth, high-trust environment that encourages bold creativity
Company values
- Bold curiosity
- Problem solving acumen
- Hope for the future
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2024
$27.6m
SERIES A
May 2022
$5m
SEED
Total funding: $32.7m
Leadership
Nicholas Chadwick
(CEO)Experience scaling and building early-stage materials technologies in renewables, semiconductors, sensors and carbon capture. They have a PhD in Materials Science from University College London and a Masters in Chemistry from the University of Nottingham.
Gaël Gobaille-Shaw
(CTO)Scientific Consultant at Supercritical Solutions. They gained their PhD in Chemistry from the University of Bristol. In their final year of University they joined Deep Science Ventures as a Founding Analyst.
Shiladitya Ghosh
(COO)They have 6 years of experience in low-carbon research with world-leading academic and industrial teams at Imperial College London and BP. They gained their PhD in Materials Science from University College London and a Masters in Chemistry from the University of Nottingham.
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