Clean Earth Innovations

What Clean Earth Innovations does

Clean Earth Innovations is a Fort Lauderdale-based cleantech company that develops and commercializes biochar and carbon project solutions for governments, corporations, landowners, and industrial buyers of ESG services. Its core technology is pyrolysis-based biomass conversion, thermally decomposing organic feedstocks at 300-700°C in low-oxygen environments to produce biochar that permanently sequesters carbon. The company is building a 60,000 ton/year biochar processing facility on 61+ acres in northern rural Florida, deploying four high-capacity pyrolysis systems with integrated Organic Rankine Cycle modules that recover waste heat as electricity and enable real-time yield optimization.

The company's revenue model spans four streams: carbon offset sales (biochar, mangrove, seagrass, forest management, renewable energy projects); carbon project development services (feasibility, modeling, registration, verification); physical biochar product sales into agriculture, water remediation, construction materials, animal husbandry, and green steel/clean power; and ESG advisory services. Go-to-market is hybrid, combining direct enterprise sales with governments and ESG-driven corporations, strategic co-development partnerships with universities (e.g., Universidad Austral de Chile) and Indigenous communities (Indigi-Green Development Corp.), and event-driven pilots through public innovation challenges, notably a $100,000 grant from the Miami-Dade Innovation Authority to deploy biochar technology at the South Dade Landfill.

The company is in a pre-commercial pilot phase. Headcount is 1-10, only external capital raised to date is a single grant, and the sole deployed customer reference is a 4,000-ton municipal green waste pilot. Leadership includes a Chairman/CEO with prior cleantech and SaaS scaling experience, a CFO with public and PE-backed company background, and a VP of Technology who previously co-founded a carbon project developer taken public on the London Stock Exchange in 2005. Revenue generation has not yet commenced at material scale.

Name

Clean Earth Innovations

Legal name

Clean Earth Innovations, LLC

Website

https://cleanearth.eco

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Clean Earth Innovations is a Fort Lauderdale-based cleantech company that produces biochar via pyrolysis and offers carbon offset, carbon project development, and ESG advisory services to governments, corporations, and landowners, with a pilot facility under development in Florida.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Carbon Management and Cleantech Services

NAICS

Fertilizer and Compost Manufacturing (32531)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700)

akta.pro primary industry

Biochar Production & Soil/Material Applications (EUABAFAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Biochar & Carbon-Based Soil Conditioners (AFABADAD), Biochar Carbon Projects (Biomass to Biochar & Soil Application) (EUABABAH), Bio-based Carbon Products & Advanced Bioproducts (Biochar, activated carbon, carbon black alternatives) (EUAAAIAM)

Keywords

• Carbon offset development
• Biochar production
• Pyrolysis technology
• ESG advisory services
• Water remediation solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Fort Lauderdale

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Infrastructure, Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Carbon Offset Sales: Development and sale of carbon offsets from biochar projects, mangrove, seagrass, forest management, and renewable energy projects. Includes project registration, third-party verification, and offset marketing and sales.
2. Carbon Project Development Services: End-to-end carbon project development including opportunity assessments, feasibility confirmation, project design and documentation, inventory development, carbon offset modeling, and ongoing project support.
3. Biochar Product Sales: Production and sale of biochar for agriculture, water remediation, construction materials, animal husbandry, and industrial applications including green steel and clean power.
4. ESG Advisory Services: Carbon management advisory and strategy, cleantech research and assessment, and renewable energy strategy and deployment services for organizations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Clean Earth Innovations develops and deploys biochar-based decarbonization solutions, producing biochar via advanced pyrolysis (300°C–700°C in low-oxygen environments) and offering it as both a salable product and the basis for applied services in agriculture, water remediation, animal husbandry, green steel/clean power, and green construction materials. It also delivers end-to-end carbon offset management, ESG advisory services, and carbon project development (biochar, BlueCarbon, forest management, renewable energy, and hazardous gas capture), anchored by a planned 60,000 ton/year biochar processing facility in northern rural Florida.

Product overview

Clean Earth Innovations operates as a biochar technology company offering both products and related services. The core product is Biochar—a carbon-rich material produced through pyrolysis that permanently sequesters carbon. The company provides specialized biochar-based service offerings including Water Remediation (for CAFOs, stormwater, aquaculture), Soil & Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Green Steel & Clean Power, Green Construction Materials, and Mine Tailings Remediation. Supporting services include Carbon Offset Management (with data dashboards and QA/QC capabilities), ESG Services (advisory and strategy), and Carbon Project Development (covering biochar, BlueCarbon, forest management, renewable energy, and hazardous gas capture). The company also operates a 60,000 ton/year biochar production facility in Florida as an operational asset.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Biochar Porous, carbon-rich material produced via pyrolysis of biomass at 300°C–700°C in low-oxygen environments; permanently sequesters atmospheric carbon for centuries and is sold for agriculture, water remediation, building materials, and industrial uses.
• Water Remediation Services Biochar-based water remediation for CAFOs (nutrient, pathogen, and heavy metal capture, effluent filtration), stormwater runoff (oil, metals, pesticides via bioswales/filters), and aquaculture (ammonia/nitrite removal, beneficial microbe support).
• Soil and Agriculture Services Biochar-based soil and agriculture services that boost fertility by retaining nutrients (N, P, K), improve soil structure and water holding capacity, stimulate soil biology, buffer pH and detoxify soils, and provide long-term carbon sequestration.
• Animal Husbandry Services Biochar applications for animal health, including feed additive that binds toxins and improves digestion, manure management to cut odors and reduce methane, bedding hygiene, and nutrient recycling into high-quality fertilizer.
• Green Steel and Clean Power Biochar-based solutions for industrial decarbonization, including replacing coal/coke as a reducing agent in steelmaking, renewable fuel co-firing with coal, gasification, and CHP systems supporting circular economy and carbon credits.
• Green Construction Materials Next-generation cement, concrete, and asphalt products integrating biochar to increase structural strength while reducing the carbon intensity of construction materials.
• Mine Tailings Remediation Biochar applications for immobilizing heavy metals, buffering acidity, and reducing toxic leaching from mine tailings sites.
• Carbon Offset Management End-to-end carbon offset management covering opportunity assessments, carbon project modeling, project design and documentation, third-party verification planning, project registration, offset marketing and sales, and ongoing project support, with real-time data dashboards and QA/QC capabilities.
• ESG Services Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) consulting services including Carbon Management Advisory and Strategy, CleanTech Research and Assessment, and CleanTech/Renewable Energy Strategy and Deployment for organizations.
• Carbon Project Development End-to-end carbon project development services including opportunity assessments, feasibility confirmation, project design and documentation, inventory development, carbon offset modeling, and ongoing support, spanning biochar, BlueCarbon (mangroves and seagrass), Improved Forest Management, renewable energy systems, and capture/destruction of hazardous gases (methane, SO2, N2O).

Quantifiable outcome

• Converts green waste into charcoal to prevent methane emissions and store carbon permanently
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• Universidad Austral de ChileflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 February 2026Memorandum of Understanding to launch a collaborative initiative aimed at improving water quality for Chile's salmon aquaculture sector. The partnership combines CEI's biochar filtration technology with the university's research capabilities in environmental analysis and field deployment to design, deploy, and validate advanced water remediation systems through phased pilot programs. Supports environmental sustainability and long-term growth of Chile's salmon industry while advancing circular economy principles in fisheries management.
• Miami-Dade Innovation AuthoritycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2025Winner of the fifth public innovation challenge, receiving a $100,000 grant through the Solid Waste Innovation Challenge to pilot a biochar production facility at the South Dade Landfill. The initiative aims to convert green waste into charcoal to prevent methane emissions and support the county's Zero Waste Master Plan.
• Miami-Dade CountycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Miami-Dade County Department of Solid Waste Management to pilot biochar production technology at South Dade Landfill. The county currently processes 4,000 tons (less than 1% of 500,000 tons annual green waste) with plans to expand if pilot proves successful.
• Indigi-Green Development Corp.flagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerFirst Nation owned and Canadian based partner collaborating to engage Indigenous Nations worldwide in clean energy projects. The partnership aims to create economic development opportunities and generate self-sustaining wealth for Indigenous Nations on their traditional territories.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Indigo Agriculture: AgTech company with carbon farming and agricultural soil-carbon programs. Comparable on the agriculture/soil-amendment customer segment and on selling nature-based carbon credits to corporates with ESG mandates.
• Climeworks: Leading direct air capture carbon removal company selling high-integrity removal credits. Adjacent competitor in the durable carbon removal / voluntary carbon market where CEI sells biochar-based offsets.
• South Pole Group: Large global carbon project developer and ESG advisory firm offering offset origination, verification, and corporate sustainability services. Comparable on the carbon project development and ESG advisory revenue streams.

Emerging players

• Watershed: Enterprise carbon accounting and offset procurement platform. Comparable on the ESG advisory, carbon management, and corporate sustainability services that CEI provides alongside its biochar operations.
• Carbofex: Finnish biochar producer using pyrolysis with downstream applications in agriculture, water filtration, and carbon removal. Comparable technology stack and multi-application go-to-market, though Europe-focused rather than US.

Direct peers

• Carbonfuture: Carbon removal registry and marketplace focused on durable removal credits including biochar. Comparable on the carbon offset data management, MRV, and sales infrastructure CEI is building for its biochar credits.
• Pacific Biochar: Biochar producer and carbon offset developer using pyrolysis of forest biomass, with products aimed at agriculture, soil regeneration, and voluntary carbon markets. Direct overlap on biochar production technology and carbon project development services.
• Biochar Now: US-based biochar producer operating large-scale pyrolysis facilities, selling biochar into agriculture and carbon markets. Closely comparable to CEI in core technology (pyrolysis), product (biochar), and end markets (carbon offsets, agriculture).
• Oregon Biochar Solutions: Commercial-scale biochar manufacturer using pyrolysis to convert woody biomass into soil amendment and carbon removal credits. Comparable production approach, US-Pacific footprint, and dual focus on soil applications and carbon markets.

Regional players

• BlackEarth Carbon: Australia-listed biochar and carbon credits company operating commercial-scale pyrolysis facilities. Comparable on biochar production economics and credit monetization, but focused on Australian feedstock and markets.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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