♻️ Greenlyte: Fueling Circular Carbon with Direct Air Capture ♻️

🔦 This week’s spotlight is on Greenlyte Carbon Technologies, a German startup scaling hashtag#DAC with a unique approach capturing CO₂ while producing hydrogen. In just two years, they’ve moved from lab to demo, secured $40M from grants and venture capital, and are working toward a capture capacity of 0.1 GT of CO₂ per year by 2050.

How does Greenlyte operate?

🪨 Greenlyte utilises direct air capture to extract CO₂ from the atmosphere. Their innovative process employs a liquid-sorbent solution to absorb CO₂, followed by an electrochemical process to release the captured CO₂ and generate green hydrogen.

🧑‍🔬 The green hydrogen produced through its DAC process is a valuable byproduct, sold to industries like steel manufacturing to offset operational costs.

🔬 With its funding support from the EU and North Rhine-Westphalia, Greenlyte is advancing its DAC-2-e-Methanol initiative, combining its direct air capture technology with hydrogen production to create e-methanol, a major step toward scaling sustainable fuel solutions.

Greenlyte’s carbon removal strategy?

💚 Integrating DAC into key industries to support green fuel production, CO₂ utilization, and long-term storage.

💰 Backed by $40M in funding from investors like Earlybird, Green Generation Fund, and Carbon Removal Partners, and from grant funding, Greenlyte is one of the top five most-funded DAC startups globally.

📣 Shoutout to the powerhouse founders (pun intended), 🌱🌎 Florian Hildebrand, Dr. Niklas Friederichsen, Dr Peter Behr, and the entire Greenlyte team.

👉 Excited to follow Greenlyte's journey as they scale their breakthrough DAC technology. Make sure to give them a follow to tag along.

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