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Heimdal

Affordable and verified direct air carbon capture and storage

Y CombinatorSummer 2021InactiveIndustrialsClimateCarbon Capture and RemovalClimate

What they do

Problem

Atmospheric CO2 levels are too high and there is a need for affordable, verified permanent carbon removal and storage.

Solution

Heimdal builds direct air capture machines and facilities that remove CO2 from the atmosphere and permanently store it.

Who it's for

Organizations seeking to purchase verified carbon removal credits, including corporations and governments.

Founders

Marcus Lima
Founder & CEO

Co-founder and CEO of Torus. We build agentic engineering tools for capital project engineering firms. Previously founder of Heimdal, direct air carbon capture technology and infrastructure. Oxford and Cambridge grad.

Erik Millar
Founder

🇮🇲 Before Heimdal I started various other projects such as carbon farming in Australia and developing a solar farm on the Isle of Man. I also worked on other academic projects such as developing the software and hardware for a glove to translate English to Tactile Fingerspelling to enable deafblind individuals to understand non-fingerspellers. BEng Mechanical Engineering MSc Energy Systems University of Oxford

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