YC DATA · 6,287 COMPANIES · OCTOBER 2, 2026
FORMATION · FIRST SURFACED SUMMER 2022

Carbon Capture

Return to Signal
ACCELERATED · SUMMER 202282% confidenceObserved October 2, 2026Source: Description cluster · description-only
The count
2.63×

2/792 → 9/1353; +0.41 percentage points of formation share.

S17S20S21S25
The companies behind the signal — 9
Winter 2022
Seabound

Carbon capture equipment for ships. Seabound builds carbon capture equipment for ships. We're the only way for existing ships to reduce up to 95% of CO2 emissions and meet new global regulations.

Winter 2022
AirMyne

Building systems to remove carbon dioxide from air at industrial scale. AirMyne is building machines to capture & remove carbon dioxide from ambient atmospheric air so it can be utilized or sequestered downstream. Our team is based in Berkeley, CA.

Winter 2022
Carbon Crusher

We make carbon negative roads. We are crushing roads in need of maintenance, reusing the old road materials, replacing heavy oil with carbon binding lignin. This is both a cheaper, more durable and net carbon negative method, removing ~1.5 tonnes CO2 from the atmosphere from every 100 feet of road. We offer Crushing As A Service (CRAAS) to public and private road owners and refurbishers, and are already gaining international traction. Using satellite imagery, we will monitor road status and potential, and will offer additional tech and bio enhancements to make all roads green and a solution to the climate crisis. We are building the road to a carbon negative future.

Summer 2021
Heimdal

Affordable and verified direct air carbon capture and storage. Heimdal builds machines that permanently capture and store atmospheric CO2. We are building technology that profitably captures CO2 with this tax credit, right here in the United States. Our first deployment is Bantam, the largest DAC facility in the US with the lowest cost per ton anywhere in the world.

Summer 2021
Canopi

API to measure and eliminate carbon emissions.

Summer 2021
Abatable

Carbon markets platform and solutions. Abatable is a carbon offsetting procurement platform which connects companies with carbon project developers of high quality carbon offsets. Abatable facilitates procurement decisions by offering third party quality assessments of projects and by standardizing multi-year purchase agreements and an automated RFP platform. The team has extensive experience advising institutional investors on nature-based carbon removal and impact investment portfolios and is backed by leading investors like YCombinator, BlueBear Capital and Global Founders Capital.

Summer 2021
Inversion Space

Turning space into a transportation layer for Earth.

Winter 2021
Remora

Carbon capture for vehicles. We're building carbon capture for trains and trucks. We generate revenue for railroads and trucking companies by extracting, purifying, and selling CO2 from their exhaust. Our technology can capture up to 90% of the CO2 in the vehicle's exhaust while reducing soot, particulate matter, and NOx. We've partnered with Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, Ryder, and Werner, and raised $117 million from Lowercarbon Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Union Square Ventures, and Y Combinator.

Winter 2021
Noya

Radically reducing capital costs and build time for direct air capture. Noya is radically reducing the upfront capital costs and installation time required to perform direct air capture. We're doing this by retrofitting existing pieces of industrial equipment like cooling towers and turning them into CO2 capture machines.

Inside Carbon Capture

Climate

A primary internal company segment within Carbon Capture, derived deterministically from the shared yc tag “Climate”. This is a classification of current window members, not a causal layer or a separate time trend.

Other / unclassified

Measured-window members of Carbon Capture that could not be assigned to a narrower shared YC tag or industry without forcing a classification.

Outside corroboration — does anyone else see this?

No comparable outside activity is connected yet.

Similarly named categories — not necessarily the same thing

These share a word with “Carbon Capture” but are tracked as separate categories. The real overlap below is the actual share of Carbon Capture’s companies also found in that category — not a guess.

Citation

Cambrian Signal, “Carbon Capture,” publication yc-2026-10-02-semantic-v8, snapshot October 2, 2026.
cambrian.jafar.com/formation/carbon-capture