Living Carbon
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$21M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$21M
Series A · Jan 2023 · 3 yr ago
Team
23
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · 0% in a year
Hiring now
1
open roles
Grants
$187k
1 grant · CORDIS
Backers
7
Y Combinator, Floodgate
The money's age
Long since its last round
45 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jan 18, 2023
Raised a round Series A $21M
Aug 10, 2021
Won a grant $187k · CORDIS
Jan 2020
Went through Y Combinator
2019
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 1 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | Jan 2023 | $21M | — | sgvoice.energyvoice.com |
| Grant | Aug 2021 | $187k | — | CORDIS |
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Y Combinator 
Floodgate 
Lowercarbon Capital 
Meta Planet 
Soma Capital 
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Overview
Living Carbon engineers trees to grow faster and to resist decay so they hold more carbon for longer. It plants those trees on degraded land such as former mine sites and sells the resulting carbon removal credits. The company publishes field trial data on its photosynthesis-enhanced poplars.
News
Press April 30, 2026 Octopus Energy Is Getting Into the Carbon Credit Business
Octopus Energy Is Getting Into the Carbon Credit Business
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Living Carbon: Photosynthesis-Enhanced Trees
Why and how to engineer trees; climate biotech business strategy
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Could superpowered plants be the heroes of the climate crisis?
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Press February 16, 2023 Genetically Modified Trees Planted in U.S. Forest for First Time
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Press January 30, 2023 Forests bioengineered to capture more carbon will be planted in the US
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Living Carbon over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
1
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
85/100
Languages
Python
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$95k
Typical range
$95k
Open positions
1
1
Jobs
Senior
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 1 | $95k | $95k |
Highest paying role
Land Partnerships Associate / Senior Associate
$95k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
22/100
Hiring freeze
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
99 days
faster than 12% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
100% ▼
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
San Francisco
United States
HQ
10-50 est. staff