Strategic financing helps Puro.earth initiatives to speed up carbon elimination at scale
On 4 September 2025, Puro.earth, a number one carbon-crediting platform for engineered carbon dioxide elimination (CDR), introduced it has raised €11 million in a Sequence B funding spherical led by Nasdaq with participation from Fortum Innovation & Venturing. Puro.earth will deploy this funding to strengthen the infrastructure that helps its best-in-class certification journey for suppliers. Key initiatives embody enabling extra frequent issuance of high-integrity carbon elimination credit, facilitating offtake agreements, and advancing open integration of digital monitoring, reporting, and verification (dMRV) instruments.
The brand new funding builds on a interval of sturdy development and innovation at Puro.earth, highlighted by enhancements to its market-leading biochar methodology, the launch of an API enabling streamlined carbon elimination buying and selling by means of gross sales channels, strategic partnerships with main organizations to facilitate CDR undertaking financing, and the appointment of latest management to speed up carbon elimination at scale. It reinforces Puro.earth’s strategic mission to scale high-integrity carbon elimination markets globally, solidifying its function as a number one normal and registry for scientifically rigorous and independently verified CO₂ Elimination Certificates (CORCs). By enhancing Puro.earth’s buyer choices to satisfy rising demand for sturdy carbon removals, Nasdaq and Puro.earth are effectively positioned—by means of their mixed monetary market and local weather experience—to drive innovation and to scale the carbon market.
“Carbon elimination is evolving from innovation to infrastructure,” mentioned Jan-Willem Bode, President of Puro.earth. “With this newest spherical of funding, we’re strengthening the techniques that facilitate scale in CDR deployment and enhancing our buyer choices to higher assist the rising demand for sturdy engineered removals. Our strategy is grounded in science, market self-discipline, and transparency. That is what our ecosystem of patrons and suppliers calls for—Nasdaq and Puro.earth are well-placed to satisfy this want by combining monetary infrastructure and local weather experience to foster innovation and speed up the carbon market development.”
“With this funding, we goal to speed up our shared imaginative and prescient of enabling high-integrity carbon markets,” mentioned Fredrik Ekström, Head of Carbon Markets at Nasdaq and Chairman of the Board at Puro.earth. “Along with Nasdaq’s efforts to advance the technological infrastructure of carbon markets, Puro.earth is delivering the transparency and operational capability important to creating carbon dioxide elimination (CDR) a reputable and investable answer in each carbon and monetary markets.”
Puro.earth developed the primary normal devoted to engineered carbon elimination in 2019 as a part of Fortum’s Innovation & Venturing unit. In 2021, Nasdaq turned the bulk proprietor of the corporate. Thus far, Puro.earth has issued greater than 1 million CO₂ Elimination Certificates (CORCs) – greater than every other engineered CDR normal and registry to-date.