What Recarbn does

Recarbn is a Netherlands-based direct air capture (DAC) startup founded in 2022 and headquartered in Enschede. The company is positioned as a for-profit, privately held venture spun out of the University (consistent with the University of Twente, given the Enschede location), and operates with a small team of 1-10 employees — placing it firmly in the formative, pre-commercial phase of corporate development.

The company is classified within the direct air capture segment of the broader carbon capture and removal industry. No product specifications, sorbent chemistry, process architecture, intellectual property filings, pilot deployments, or pricing structures are disclosed for Recarbn in the available source material. Its corporate website is hosted at recarbn.eu, but no product pages, customer references, or technology descriptions from that domain were captured in the input data.

No funding history, investor base, customer relationships, management team composition, regulatory milestones, partnership disclosures, or geographic operating footprint are available for Recarbn. Revenue, ownership structure, and operational status cannot be determined from the sources provided. The majority of detailed firmographic content in the aggregated input pertains to a separate entity (Skytree, skytree.tech) and is not attributable to Recarbn; consequently, this analysis is constrained to firmographic-level observations and must be treated as low-confidence pending additional primary disclosure.

Name

Recarbn

Website

https://recarbn.eu

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Recarbn is a Netherlands-based direct air capture startup founded in 2022 and headquartered in Enschede. The company is an early-stage university spinout operating with 1-10 employees in the development of DAC technology for carbon removal applications.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Enschede

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Recarbn is a direct air capture startup developing technology to capture CO2 from the atmosphere, with origins in university research and based in Enschede, Netherlands. The company's work is positioned within the broader DAC industry that supplies captured CO2 for use cases including permanent storage, greenhouses, power-to-X applications, beverage carbonation, and water treatment. At its current early stage of development with 1–10 employees, Recarbn is focused on the foundational engineering and scaling of DAC technology for carbon removal and circular carbon use.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Supports net-zero commitments through scalable carbon capture
• +1 more outcomes

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Lingezegen EnergycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLingezegen Energy is a strategic partner hosting the commercial availability launch of Skytree's first commercial Skytree Stratus system. This represents a flagship deployment partnership for Skytree's DAC technology, demonstrating commercial viability in a real-world energy project setting.

Scale indicators5 records

Emerging players

• Jupiter Ionics: Climate-tech company with DAC and carbon conversion activities; an emerging player in the same carbon removal value chain as Recarbn.
• AtmosClear: Montreal-based DAC startup developing mobile DAC units; shares Recarbn's focus on smaller, modular, and potentially relocatable DAC deployments.
• Spiritus: Early-stage DAC startup developing sorbent-based air capture technology; comparable in stage and approach to Recarbn as an emerging modular DAC player.
• Mission Zero Technologies: UK-based DAC startup developing electrochemical DAC systems; comparable European early-stage competitor targeting distributed carbon removal applications.

Direct peers

• Climeworks: Swiss-based DAC pioneer and the most capitalized DAC company globally; competes directly with Recarbn in modular solid-sorbent DAC systems targeting carbon removal credits and industrial CO2 supply.
• Skytree: Netherlands-based DAC company developing modular solid-sorbent DAC machines (Stratus) for onsite CO2 supply and carbon removal; the closest geographic and product peer to Recarbn.
• Heirloom Carbon: US-based DAC company using limestone-based sorbent technology to capture CO2 from ambient air; targets the same voluntary carbon removal market as Recarbn with significant venture backing.
• CarbonCapture Inc. US-based DAC developer focused on modular mega-DAC systems; competes with Recarbn for project developer customers and carbon credit offtake agreements.
• Global Thermostat: Pioneer in low-cost DAC systems using amine-based sorbents; targets industrial CO2 utilization and removal applications directly overlapping Recarbn's use cases.

Broad incumbents

• 1PointFive (Occidental): Subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum building large-scale DAC infrastructure based on Carbon Engineering technology; a deep-pocketed incumbent competing for the same permanent carbon removal demand.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks4 records

Key highlights2 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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