Carbon Harvest

Name

Carbon Harvest

Website

https://carbonharvest.co.nz

Company type

Private

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Carbon Harvest is a Wanganui, New Zealand-based R&D company developing three-dimensional enclosed algae photosynthesis systems, financed through Callaghan Innovation grants with no commercial product yet.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Algae Biotechnology R&D

NAICS

Aquaculture (1125)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Biological CO₂ Utilization (algae/biotech conversion to fuels, chemicals, proteins) (EUABAIAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Bio-based Carbon Products & Advanced Bioproducts (Biochar, activated carbon, carbon black alternatives) (EUAAAIAM)

Keywords

• Algae photosynthesis R&D
• Algae bioreactor technology
• Carbon capture research
• Biofuel feedstock development
• Algae cultivation systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Wanganui

HQ country

New Zealand

HQ region

Oceania

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations

Core offering

Carbon Harvest conducts research and development focused on enhancing photosynthesis in algae housed within a proprietary three-dimensional container. The work is directed at improving algal growth efficiency for downstream applications such as carbon capture and bio-based production. The company is based in Wanganui, New Zealand, and has received Callaghan Innovation R&D grants in 2020 and 2023 to support its technology development.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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App detail

Emerging players

• Algix: Algix uses algae cultivation to produce sustainable biomass for animal feed and materials. It is an adjacent algae-biotech peer in controlled-cultivation technology, though focused on downstream product commercialization rather than photosynthesis R&D.
• Global Algae Innovations: Global Algae Innovations develops algae-based products and cultivation systems for food, feed, and bio-products. It overlaps with Carbon Harvest on the algae-cultivation technology stack but focuses on commercial algae biomass rather than CO2-to-value.

Broad incumbents

• Climeworks: Climeworks is a leading direct air capture (DAC) carbon removal company. It is a broad incumbent in the carbon-climate space, operating in an adjacent but distinct technology category from Carbon Harvest's biological CO2 utilization approach.
• Aemetis: Aemetis develops and deploys advanced renewable fuels and chemicals using biological and biotech processes, including biogas and cellulosic ethanol. It is a broad incumbent in biotech-driven carbon-to-fuel pathways, comparable to Carbon Harvest at the category level but operating at industrial scale.

Direct peers

• Sapphire Energy: Sapphire Energy developed algae-based crude oil production using photosynthesis to convert CO2 into renewable hydrocarbon feedstocks. Its algae-photosynthesis R&D is structurally similar to Carbon Harvest's focus, though at much greater scale.
• Photanol: Photanol uses cyanobacteria to convert CO2 into sustainable chemicals under controlled cultivation conditions. Its photobioreactor-based biological CO2 utilization model parallels Carbon Harvest's algae-in-container approach.
• Algenol Biotech: Algenol develops algae-based systems that use photosynthesis to convert CO2 directly into fuels and chemicals. Its closed-system algae cultivation approach is conceptually adjacent to Carbon Harvest's enclosed 3D container algae-photosynthesis platform.
• Joule Unlimited: Joule Unlimited developed engineered photosynthetic microorganisms designed to convert CO2 directly into renewable fuels and chemicals at scale. It is a direct peer in algae/biotech-based CO2-to-value, even though it has since wound down its operating program.
• Pond Biofuels: Pond Biofuels operates industrial-scale algae cultivation systems that use CO2 from industrial emitters to grow algae for fuels and bioproducts. It is a directly comparable algae-CO2 utilization peer with a more industrial deployment focus.
• LanzaTech: LanzaTech is a leading carbon-to-value biotech that uses gas-fermenting microbes to convert captured CO2 and industrial gases into fuels and chemicals. It is the most directly comparable company to Carbon Harvest in the biological CO2 utilization space, though at vastly greater scale and capital.

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Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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