Counteract
2026-08-31counteract.vc
Overview
What they do
Counteract is an early-stage investor backing founders innovating in carbon removal. Its first fund, Counteract One, targets pre-seed and seed stage investments in solutions that are additive to the wider carbon removal ecosystem, with the goal of catalysing 5 gigatonnes of CO2e removal by 2050. The firm highlights a diverse portfolio of carbon removal and utilisation technologies spanning areas such as direct air capture, biochar, mineralisation, and coastal and soil carbon approaches.
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What they look for
Counteract focuses on pre-seed and seed investments in carbon removal solutions that can unlock large-scale CO2e drawdown by 2050, including technologies such as direct air capture, mineralisation, biochar, and other ecosystem-additive approaches. Its strategy centres on supporting early-stage founders to develop scalable, additional carbon removal pathways across the emerging carbon removal ecosystem.
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Stage
Seed
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Sectors
Climate
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Based
London, GB
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Sources
2026-08-31counteract.vcInvesting Counteract backs early stage founders fostering innovation in carbon removal.
2026-08-31counteract.vcWe are entrepreneurs, scientists and engineers dedicated to helping scale the carbon removal…
2026-08-31counteract.vcWe deploy our resources into a portfolio of initiatives from novel solutions like direct air…
Portfolio, cheque size and the rest
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