- Cotierra raises $3 million in a new funding round, co-led by Carbon Removal Partners and PINC
- The funding brings the company’s total support raised to date to approximately $4.75 million
- This financial injection will unlock further growth for the company’s decentralized biochar systems
Zurich-based Cotierra has secured $3 million in a new funding round which will support the advancement of its biochar operations towards commercial scale.
The funding round was co-led by Carbon Removal Partners and PINC, the venture branch of international food and beverage company Paulig.
Other round participants include Zürcher Kantonalbank, Carbon Drawdown Initiative, better ventures, GOTA Ventures, Hungry4Impact and Triple Impact Ventures, and climate-oriented angel investors.
This financial support brings Cotierra’s total funding raised to date to approximately $4.75 million.
With this support, the biochar-focused company will work on optimizing its technology from field deployments to repeatable commercial scale.
Headquartered in Switzerland, Cotierra specializes in decentralized biochar systems for agricultural value chains, helping agricultural businesses transition towards sustainable farming.
Its approach is powered by an integrated hardware and software platform that allows agricultural companies to produce biochar close to the source of biomass while also providing monitoring, traceability and reporting for such deployments.
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To streamline operations, Cotierra pairs a decentralized reactor technology with the digital platform needed to operate, monitor and verify biochar production. By doing this, the company enables agricultural entities to generate biochar in proximity to the biomass supply source and return CO2 to the soil, while also providing them with a user-friendly way to track the results.
Cotierra’s background
Co-founded by Thomas Käslin and Lorenz Buser, the company started out by applying this business model within the coffee industry. As the company evolves, its team is now exploring other tropical agricultural commodities, including cocoa, cotton and citrus.
In a publication, Thomas Käslin shared, “Starting from our work in coffee, we’re expanding into cocoa, cotton and citrus, with a clear ambition: to make decentralised biochar a cornerstone of regenerative agriculture across the tropics.”
“We’ve proven our approach in the field. Now we’re turning that work into an integrated product our clients can deploy reliably across their operations,” he added.
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