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Preserving Innovation. Enabling Scale.
When climate tech companies fail, years of irreplaceable R&D data and IP gets destroyed: deleted, abandoned, lost. CTRL-S acquires that IP and licenses it to energy companies, industrials, and AI materials platforms that can actually deploy it.
Over $2.3 billion in private capital has been invested in DAC companies since 2018, yet CDR.fyi finds that only 0.05% of contracted credits have been delivered. Most DAC companies expect to fold or be acquired. When they fail, their intellectual property, experimental data, and operational know-how vanishes, putting at risk the knowledge embedded in billions of dollars of public and private investment.
"The honeymoon is over. Investment and sales are falling, while deployments are delayed across almost every company.". CDR.fyi, 2025 State of CDR Report
CTRL-S acquires IP, data, and tacit knowledge from distressed companies before it disappears. Every asset is evaluated by a founding team with direct Climeworks experience, then independently reviewed by an advisory network of leading DAC experts.
IP, operational data, and tacit knowledge from distressed DAC companies. Structured as asset transfers with founder knowledge transfer sessions capturing undocumented know-how.
Two-layer diligence: founding team evaluation (Climeworks-experienced), then independent advisory review. Output: standardized benchmarks across performance, degradation, energy intensity, and failure modes.
Non-exclusive licensing by default, enabling cross-sector deployment. A sorbent chemistry licensed to an energy major for DAC doesn't conflict with licensing the same IP to a water treatment company.
Each acquisition feeds a growing comparable dataset: the first independent DAC performance benchmark. Subscribers get intelligence on where technologies sit relative to each other. The more assets, the stickier the platform.
Each layer expands in margin and duration over time
Corporate access to benchmarked IP packages, experimental data, and market intelligence.
Non-exclusive licensing across sectors. The same IP can serve DAC, industrial gas, water treatment, and other applications.
Long-term participation tied to real-world deployment of licensed technologies.
Structured experimental datasets from real climate technology programs, packaged for AI materials discovery and industrial R&D.
After 2027, founders scatter, data is deleted, and equipment is scrapped. Like the Svalbard Seed Vault, preservation requires acting before the crisis peaks.
Over 40 venture-backed DAC companies raised $2.3B+ between 2018 and H1 2025. CDR.fyi concludes most will fold or be acquired. Series C deal counts hit an all-time low in 2025. Acquisitions made up 89% of all climate tech exits in 2024.
~63% of the Forbes Global 2000 now have net-zero targets. Japan's GX-ETS transitions to mandatory in FY 2026. The UK will integrate engineered CDR into its ETS by 2029. At least eight major compliance markets now allow some form of carbon removals.
DAC operates at ~400 ppm CO₂, the hardest conditions in carbon capture. Technologies that underperform at DAC specs often excel in industrial gas separation, water treatment, and hydrogen production. Each asset licenses across multiple markets.
AI materials discovery companies are raising hundreds of millions to generate experimental data. The emerging thesis is that AI needs real-world data, including failed experiments. This validates CTRL-S's asset class. We recover existing data at dramatically lower cost.
Our thesis rests on three structural certainties
Climate impacts compound. Action becomes inevitable regardless of political cycles.
Human ingenuity and AI drive learning curves when knowledge is accessible.
Durable climate action will be deployed by established industries, not startups.
CTRL-S creates value regardless of DAC's deployment timeline. Subscriptions are driven by evaluation activity, not deployment. Innovation spillover routes licensing through adjacent industrial markets. The AI dataset has standalone commercial value. Multiple independent revenue paths mean the model is resilient by design.
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Co-founded and led the Direct Air Capture Coalition from zero to 110+ members across five continents, establishing it as the field's central convening platform. Organized two Global DAC Conferences with Breakthrough Energy, RMI, and Columbia University, featuring Secretary John Kerry and Senator Bill Cassidy.
Bezos Earth Fund Greenhouse Gas Removal Ideation Prize Finalist and reviewer for the Fund's Roadmap. Former member of the U.S. Department of Commerce Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee. Quoted in Forbes, Wired, Scientific American, Politico, and others. Speaker at the Global Clean Energy Action Forum, Africa Climate Summit, Carbon Unbound, and SXSW.
Previously led clean energy policy at Con Edison and supported climate initiatives at the U.S. Department of Defense. M.S. NYU (Honors with Distinction), B.A. Brown.
Former DOE DAC Hubs Program Manager
Former Chief Carbon Scientist, Deep Sky
Carbon Direct Capital
Former Breakthrough Energy Carbon Policy Lead
Former DOE OCED Deputy Director
Good Energy Collective
Africa Climate Ventures CEO
Samos Energy Chair; Amerocap Founder
Orbital Materials
ClearPath
Whether you're a corporate buyer evaluating technology, an investor seeking countercyclical opportunity, a founder with IP to preserve, or someone who wants to join the team, we'd like to hear from you.
CTRL-S is building a coalition of partners across the climate innovation ecosystem.
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