CarbVault

What CarbVault does

CarbVault is a San Francisco-based, venture-backed carbon market infrastructure platform founded in 2024 that targets Fortune 500 sustainability teams and institutional carbon trading desks. The company positions itself as the integrated "vault" layer connecting verification, registry, trading, portfolio management, and compliance — areas it argues are currently served by disconnected point solutions such as Watershed (reporting), Sylvera (ratings), and Xpansiv (exchange).

The platform is delivered through five core products operating on a shared stack. CreditMarket is a carbon credit marketplace with 500+ verified projects, AI quality scoring (0–100, A+ to C grading), and multi-registry settlement across Verra, Gold Standard, ACR, and CAR. PortfolioOS provides AI-driven portfolio rebalancing, pathway modeling, and credit-by-credit quality risk scoring. ComplianceHub automates disclosure under CSRD, CDP, GRI, TCFD, and SEC, including Scope 1/2/3 emissions automation and an auditor workspace. VerifyChain is the AI-powered MRV engine fusing Sentinel, Planet, and Maxar satellite imagery with IoT telemetry and ML models with SHAP explainability, claiming 98.7% accuracy and an 18-month-to-6-week cycle compression. TradeDesk is a Bloomberg-grade institutional trading terminal with L2 depth, multi-asset coverage (spot, futures, options, OTC blocks), FIX 4.4 connectivity, VaR/correlation analytics, and AI-summarized news intelligence; the company also offers native iOS and Android apps for mobile execution.

The business model is pure SaaS subscription with no spreads on trades and no per-credit transaction fees. Pricing is published transparently across all five products, with per-seat tiers on TradeDesk up to $15,000/month, project-based VerifyChain tiers up to $6,000/month, framework-based ComplianceHub tiers up to $10,000/month, portfolio-based PortfolioOS tiers up to $12,000/month, and volume-based CreditMarket tiers up to $8,000/month. Bundled plans start at $2,000/month (Starter, one product) and $6,500/month (Professional, up to three products), with custom enterprise pricing for all five products. Go-to-market is direct enterprise field sales — "Book a Demo" and "Talk to Sales" CTAs everywhere — supplemented by a self-serve mobile PLG motion for trading execution. The company has dual headquarters in San Francisco (548 Market Street) and London (12 Finsbury Square), cites a customer base of 150+ enterprises across four continents (including Shell, BP, TotalEnergies, ENGIE, Microsoft, Siemens, Unilever, and BlackRock in logos; with named testimonials from Pacific Energy Group, Northwind Capital, and Meridian Industries), and reports $2.4B+ in credits under management on the platform. Total disclosed funding is $125,000 in a March 2026 seed led by RedQueen Fund with co-investment from Odra Venture, with additional backers named on the About page (Lowercarbon, Breakthrough Energy, Sequoia Climate, Generation IM) not tied to specific disclosed rounds.

Name

CarbVault

Legal name

CarbVault LLC

Website

https://carbvault.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CarbVault is a San Francisco-based carbon market infrastructure platform offering five integrated SaaS products — marketplace, MRV verification, trading terminal, portfolio management, and ESG compliance — for Fortune 500 sustainability teams and institutional carbon trading desks.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Carbon Market Infrastructure Software

NAICS

Other Activities Related to Credit Intermediation (522390)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Carbon Registries & Issuance Platforms (Project/credit lifecycle, serials, issuance, retirement) (EUABAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Credit Issuance, Serialisation & Retirement Assurance (Registry Integrity Checks) (EUABACAM), Data Assurance, Audit & Attestation (ISAE 3000/3410, SOC, Chain-of-Custody) (EUABACAJ), Tokenization, Digital MRV-Linked Credits & On-Chain Carbon Infrastructure (Digital assets, provenance) (EUABAAAE), Climate Finance, Carbon Markets & MRV Systems (BPADALAB)

Keywords

• Carbon market infrastructure
• Carbon credit trading
• ESG compliance software
• Carbon MRV verification
• Sustainability software platform

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription (Platform-wide): Flat SaaS pricing model across five products. No spreads on trades. No per-credit fees. Customers pay for products they use via tiered subscription plans.
2. TradeDesk Terminal: Per-seat subscription pricing for institutional trading terminal. Three tiers: Standard ($4,000/month/seat), Professional ($8,500/month/seat), Enterprise ($15,000/month/seat).
3. VerifyChain MRV: Project-based subscription tiers: Standard ($1,500/month for up to 3 projects), Professional ($3,500/month for up to 25 projects), Enterprise ($6,000/month for unlimited projects).
4. ComplianceHub ESG Reporting: Framework-based subscription tiers: Standard ($2,500/month for 2 frameworks), Professional ($5,500/month for all 5 frameworks), Enterprise ($10,000/month for custom frameworks).
5. PortfolioOS Carbon Portfolio Management: Portfolio-based subscription: Standard ($3,000/month), Professional ($6,500/month), Enterprise ($12,000/month).
6. CreditMarket Marketplace: Volume-based subscription tiers: Standard ($2,000/month up to 5,000 tCO2e/yr), Professional ($4,500/month up to 50,000 tCO2e/yr), Enterprise ($8,000/month unlimited volume).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

CarbVault is an end-to-end carbon market infrastructure platform delivered as SaaS, combining five integrated products: an AI-verified MRV engine (VerifyChain), an immutable chain-of-custody registry, a carbon credit marketplace (CreditMarket), a portfolio management system (PortfolioOS) and an institutional trading terminal (TradeDesk), together with automated ESG compliance reporting (ComplianceHub). The platform is sold on tiered subscriptions to enterprise sustainability teams and carbon trading desks, with no spreads on trades or per-credit fees.

Product overview

CarbVault is a unified carbon market infrastructure platform consisting of five integrated products: CreditMarket (carbon credit marketplace with 500+ verified projects), PortfolioOS (AI-powered portfolio management and rebalancing), ComplianceHub (automated ESG reporting for CSRD, CDP, GRI, TCFD, SEC), VerifyChain (AI-powered MRV engine using satellite + IoT verification), and TradeDesk (institutional-grade carbon trading terminal with Bloomberg-grade analytics). The platform is designed as an end-to-end solution covering the full carbon lifecycle from verification to trading to reporting.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CreditMarket: Carbon credit marketplace for discovering, comparing, and trading verified credits from 500+ projects worldwide.
• PortfolioOS
• ComplianceHub
• VerifyChain
• TradeDesk

Products and services

• CreditMarket Carbon credit marketplace enabling enterprise buyers and project developers to discover, compare and trade verified credits from 500+ projects worldwide. Features AI-graded quality scores (A+ to C), spot and forward trading, real-time price discovery, and native multi-registry settlement across Verra, Gold Standard, ACR and CAR.
• PortfolioOS AI-powered carbon portfolio management system providing real-time P&L tracking, credit-by-credit quality risk scoring, decarbonization pathway modeling, peer benchmarking and AI-driven rebalancing recommendations to optimize carbon holdings for cost, quality, vintage diversification and risk.
• ComplianceHub Automated ESG reporting and compliance platform supporting CSRD, CDP, GRI, TCFD and SEC climate disclosure frameworks. Provides Scope 1/2/3 emissions automation, a regulatory calendar, drill-down audit trails and an auditor workspace with read-only seats, replacing patchwork ESG tool stacks.
• VerifyChain AI-powered Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) engine using multi-source satellite imagery (Sentinel, Planet, Maxar) fused with NDVI and biomass models, IoT sensor mesh telemetry and ML models with full SHAP explainability to verify carbon credits at 98.7% accuracy, compressing verification cycles from 18 months to 6 weeks.
• TradeDesk Bloomberg-grade institutional carbon trading terminal providing real-time tick pricing, L2 order book depth with liquidity heatmaps, advanced charting, multi-asset workspace (spot, futures, options, OTC blocks), risk analytics (VaR, correlation matrix, stress tests), FIX 4.4 protocol gateway and AI-summarized market news with sentiment scoring.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduces MRV verification from 18 months to 6 weeks
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration29 records

AI capability12 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Amazon AWScoreTechnology or IntegrationPrimary compute infrastructure provider for CarbVault platform. Listed in infrastructure section alongside Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
• Google CloudcoreTechnology or IntegrationAI/ML training infrastructure provider. Listed in infrastructure section alongside Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.
• Microsoft AzurecoreTechnology or IntegrationEnterprise identity and authentication infrastructure. Listed in infrastructure section alongside Amazon AWS and Google Cloud.
• OpenAI GPT-4ocoreTechnology or IntegrationAI model powering carbon credit verification processes. Listed in infrastructure section.
• Google GeminicoreTechnology or IntegrationAI model powering pattern recognition for carbon verification. Listed in infrastructure section.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Xpansiv: Operator of carbon and environmental attribute exchanges (CBL). CarbVault integrates with Xpansiv on TradeDesk but also competes in the marketplace and trading venue layer.
• Patch: API-first carbon credit infrastructure. Competes on embedded credit purchasing and integrates with enterprise workflows, similar to CarbVault's API-enabled CreditMarket and VerifyChain tiers.
• Sylvera: Carbon credit ratings and analytics provider. Competes head-to-head with CarbVault's AI quality grading (A+ to C scoring) and is named by CarbVault as a category leader in ratings.
• Persefoni: Climate management and carbon accounting platform. Competes with ComplianceHub on enterprise Scope 1/2/3 measurement and CSRD/SEC reporting.
• Cloverly: Carbon credit marketplace and API for purchasing offsets. Direct peer to CreditMarket with similar developer/enterprise API distribution model.
• Pachama: AI/ML-based carbon credit verification and marketplace. Directly competes with VerifyChain (MRV) and CreditMarket (marketplace) using satellite + ML for forest carbon.
• Watershed: Enterprise carbon accounting and disclosure platform. CarbVault explicitly names Watershed as the leader in the reporting layer, making it the most direct competitor on the ComplianceHub side of the platform.

Broad incumbents

• Salesforce (Net Zero Cloud): Enterprise CRM/cloud vendor with a Net Zero Cloud product covering carbon accounting. Competes broadly with ComplianceHub as part of a larger enterprise software portfolio.
• Microsoft Sustainability Manager: Microsoft's cloud sustainability suite covering emissions data, ESG reporting, and supplier engagement. Overlaps with ComplianceHub and PortfolioOS as a bundled offering from a hyperscale cloud provider.

Emerging players

• South Pole: Climate solutions provider developing credits and digital MRV tools. Overlaps with VerifyChain on MRV and CreditMarket on the supply/project developer side.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/carbvault

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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