ALTER BIOTA INC.
Alter Biota Inc. is a Canadian concrete technologies company that supplies biochar-based deltaC liquid admixtures and the digitalAggregate computer vision quality-control platform to ready-mix and precast concrete producers for low-carbon, drop-in concrete production.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2018
- HeadquartersEdwardsville, Canada
- Headcount1–10
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingHardware or Manufacturing
What ALTER BIOTA INC. does
Alter Biota Inc. (operated as alterBiota / αlterβiota) is a Canadian concrete technologies company headquartered in Edwardsville, Nova Scotia. The company develops and supplies two integrated products for concrete producers: deltaC (∆C), a carbon-negative liquid admixture produced via a patented process that converts biochar from sustainable forestry into a drop-in admixture claimed to enable up to 30% reduction in embodied carbon without a green premium; and digitalAggregate (digital∆ggregate™), a computer vision system that captures inline, real-time images of aggregates during concrete batching and outputs digital sieve equivalent (SievEQ) data plus shape and size analytics through an αβ Data Portal.
The company's business model combines one-time admixture sales (deltaC distributed through conventional admixture logistics to ready-mix and precast producers) with subscription/recurring software revenue (digitalAggregate via a client login portal and pilot/early-adopter programs). Go-to-market is B2B sales-led and enterprise-oriented: direct outreach, pilot programs, account-based engagement forms (capturing company, job title, and corporate email), and close collaboration with regional commercial partners such as Casey Concrete, which became the first commercial deltaC adopter in December 2025. Public-facing channels are limited to the corporate website, LinkedIn, and earned media coverage in outlets including Betakit, Entrevestor, Concrete Products, and Cape Breton Post.
Alter Biota is venture-backed, having closed a $4 million CAD seed round in May 2024 anchored by Invest Nova Scotia and the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), with additional support from Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) and the Verschuren Centre. Earlier funding of approximately USD$2.9 million was reported for biographene concrete additive development. Leadership is led by CEO and Co-Founder Mark Masotti, and the ~17-person team is concentrated in concrete R&D, materials engineering, midstream R&D, and software — including multiple PhDs and members contributing to ACI standards committees. No revenue is publicly disclosed, and the firm remains privately held.
ALTER BIOTA INC. firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- ALTER BIOTA INC.
- Legal name
- Alter Biota Inc.
- Website
- https://alterbiota.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2018
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 1–10 employees
- Short description
- Alter Biota Inc. is a Canadian concrete technologies company that supplies biochar-based deltaC liquid admixtures and the digitalAggregate computer vision quality-control platform to ready-mix and precast concrete producers for low-carbon, drop-in concrete production.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
ALTER BIOTA INC. industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Sustainable Construction Materials
- NAICS
- Cyclic Crude, Intermediate, and Gum and Wood Chemical Manufacturing (325194), Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (334516)
- SIC
- Industrial Organic Chemicals (2860), Services-Testing Laboratories (8734)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Low‑Carbon Cement, Concrete & Carbon‑Cured Building Materials (concrete curing/injection, cement substitutes, blocks) (EUABAIAF)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Biochar Carbon Projects (Biomass to Biochar & Soil Application) (EUABABAH), Biorefinery Technology & Contract Processing (fractionation, tolling, scale-up) (IMAMALAL)
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Where ALTER BIOTA INC. is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Edwardsville
- HQ country
- Canada
- HQ region
- North America
Offices1 record
Markets served
ALTER BIOTA INC. business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Hardware or Manufacturing
- Cost components
- Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales
Revenue model
- deltaC Admixture Sales: Sale of deltaC liquid biochar admixture to concrete producers. The product is described as easy to use like other liquid admixtures, with simple and familiar logistics. It is a drop-in solution that enables concrete producers to reduce carbon footprints without a green premium. deltaC is produced through a patented circular manufacturing process.
- digitalAggregate Software/Subservice: The digitalAggregate platform provides big data for concrete optimization using computer vision technology. Access is through a client login portal with early adopter and pilot programs. The platform provides real-time data visualization through the αβ Data Portal and integrates with industry-leading mix design software.
Go-to-market motion2 records
Distribution channels1 record
Marketing channels4 records
ALTER BIOTA INC. product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Alter Biota sells deltaC (∆C), a patented carbon-negative liquid biochar admixture for concrete that achieves up to 30% reduction in embodied carbon without a green premium, and digitalAggregate (digital∆ggregate™), a computer vision platform that provides real-time aggregate quality control and digital sieve equivalent data (SievEQ) to concrete producers. The products are sold directly to ready-mix and precast concrete producers through a B2B sales motion supported by pilot programs and commercial logistics.
Product overview
alterBiota is a concrete technologies company offering two integrated products: deltaC (∆C) - a carbon-negative liquid biochar admixture that reduces embodied carbon in concrete by up to 30%, and digitalAggregate - a computer vision-based quality control system that provides real-time aggregate analysis during concrete batching. Together, these products address both the decarbonization of concrete production and the optimization of concrete quality, serving concrete producers seeking to reduce their carbon footprint while maintaining or improving product quality.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- digitalAggregate: Big data platform for concrete quality control and optimization using cutting-edge computer vision technology that captures inline, real-time images of aggregates during concrete batching
- deltaC (∆C)
Products and services
- deltaC (∆C) deltaC (∆C) is a carbon-negative liquid admixture for concrete made from biochar via a patented circular manufacturing process. It achieves up to 30% reduction in embodied carbon without a green premium, improves fresh properties of concrete, acts as a micro-filler material that enhances compressive strength, and enables use of less carbon-intensive cement while storing biogenic carbon in concrete infrastructure. It is sold to concrete producers as a drop-in replacement using familiar liquid admixture logistics.
- digitalAggregate (digital∆ggregate™) digitalAggregate is a computer vision-based big data platform for concrete producers that captures inline, real-time images of aggregates during concrete batching. It produces rapid digital sieve equivalent data (SievEQ) and novel shape and size data to optimize and improve quality control of concrete mix designs, especially those with reduced Portland cement and increased aggregate. Access is via the αβ Data Portal and integrates with industry-leading mix design software.
Quantifiable outcome
- 30% reduction in embodied carbon in concrete
- +1 more outcomes
Companies that use ALTER BIOTA INC.
Customer profileNamed customers1 record
Segments2 records
Ideal customer profiles1 record
ALTER BIOTA INC. technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
AI capability2 records
Feature4 records
ALTER BIOTA INC. partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Two partnerships are on record, tiered key commercial and core.
- Casey Concretekey commercialCasey Concrete is an early commercial partner that has jumpstarted the commercialization of alterBiota's deltaC biochar admixture. They have moved deltaC into commercial production as of December 2025.
- Verschuren CentrecoreListed as a proud supporter. The Verschuren Centre in Sydney, Nova Scotia, supports biotech and clean tech development in the region and has been associated with alterBiota's growth and expansion plans.
Scale indicators2 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights5 records
ALTER BIOTA INC. competitors and assessment
Company assessmentBroad incumbents
- Sika AG: Global leader in concrete admixtures and construction chemicals with a broad low-carbon product portfolio. Represents the dominant incumbent alterBiota must displace or partner with at concrete-producer accounts.
- Master Builders Solutions (BASF): BASF's admixtures brand offering a broad range of concrete chemical admixtures, including sustainable product lines. Direct competitive threat via existing relationships with global ready-mix and precast producers.
- GCP Applied Technologies (now part of Saint-Gobain): Major concrete admixture and cement-additives supplier (now part of Saint-Gobain/CHRYSO). Competes across the same product category and uses its installed-base relationships to push low-carbon offerings.
Direct peers
- Carbon Upcycling Technologies: Canadian cleantech that uses CO₂ and industrial waste to produce supplementary cementitious materials. Targets concrete and cement producers with lower-carbon inputs analogous to alterBiota's admixture strategy.
- CarbonCure Technologies: Canadian concrete decarbonization company that injects CO₂ into ready-mix concrete. Targets the same concrete producers with a drop-in solution and has a larger installed base, making it the most directly comparable peer for alterBiota's deltaC.
- Solidia Technologies: Pioneer in CO₂-cured concrete and reduced-CO₂ cement binder chemistry. Competes in the same concrete decarbonization category with a chemistry-led approach analogous to alterBiota's deltaC.
- CarbiCrete: Canadian company developing concrete products that use steel slag and sequestered CO₂ instead of cement. Competes for the same low-carbon concrete producer accounts and benefits from similar decarbonization procurement tailwinds.
Emerging players
- Material Evolution: UK-based developer of ultra-low-CO₂ alkali-activated cement and concrete products. Pursues the same cost-competitive decarbonized concrete goal as alterBiota and serves the same producer customer base.
- Biomason: Develops biologically-cemented concrete materials with reduced carbon footprint. Overlaps with alterBiota in the theme of low-carbon, biology-or biochar-derived concrete inputs.
Others
- CarbonOrO (Heidelberg Materials/Ocean Geo Energy adjacent biochar-cement concepts): Cement majors such as Heidelberg Materials are exploring biochar-in-cement initiatives to reduce embodied carbon. They represent potential strategic partners or competitors shaping the carbon-cured / biochar-cement landscape alterBiota operates in.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat5 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights6 records
Customer concentration
ALTER BIOTA INC. social profiles
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Financial estimateRevenue estimate
Valuation estimate
ALTER BIOTA INC. leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles12 records
ALTER BIOTA INC. funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds
Investors
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ALTER BIOTA INC. M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A
Investments
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Frequently asked questions about ALTER BIOTA INC.
What does ALTER BIOTA INC. do?
Alter Biota sells deltaC (∆C), a patented carbon-negative liquid biochar admixture for concrete that achieves up to 30% reduction in embodied carbon without a green premium, and digitalAggregate (digital∆ggregate™), a computer vision platform that provides real-time aggregate quality control and digital sieve equivalent data (SievEQ) to concrete producers. The products are sold directly to ready-mix and precast concrete producers through a B2B sales motion supported by pilot programs and commercial logistics.
When was ALTER BIOTA INC. founded?
ALTER BIOTA INC. was founded in 2018. It employs 1 to 10 people.
Where is ALTER BIOTA INC. based?
ALTER BIOTA INC. is headquartered in Edwardsville, Canada, in the North America region.
How does ALTER BIOTA INC. make money?
Two revenue lines are on record. deltaC Admixture Sales are the primary driver. The others are digitalAggregate Software/Subservice.
Who are ALTER BIOTA INC.'s main competitors?
Broad incumbents on record are Sika AG, Master Builders Solutions (BASF) and GCP Applied Technologies (now part of Saint-Gobain). Direct peers are Carbon Upcycling Technologies, CarbonCure Technologies, Solidia Technologies and CarbiCrete. Emerging players are Material Evolution and Biomason. CarbonOrO (Heidelberg Materials/Ocean Geo Energy adjacent biochar-cement concepts) is listed as an others.
Does ALTER BIOTA INC. have an API?
No public API is recorded for ALTER BIOTA INC..
What industry is ALTER BIOTA INC. in?
ALTER BIOTA INC.'s product category is Sustainable Construction Materials. Its primary akta.pro industry code is EUABAIAF, Low‑Carbon Cement, Concrete & Carbon‑Cured Building Materials (concrete curing/injection, cement substitutes, blocks), with a secondary code of EUABABAH, Biochar Carbon Projects (Biomass to Biochar & Soil Application). Its NAICS code is 325194 and its SIC code is 2860.