Carbonyx commercializes a process developed at the University of British Columbia that treats waste rock and other industrial wastes to recover valuable materials such as carbonates and silica while enhancing the materials' natural ability to capture CO2 via electrically induced reactions with water. The company was born in UBC’s Curtis P. Berlinguette Research Group and is led by co-founder and CEO Doug Pimlott, with Berlinguette as co-founder and advisor and a team that includes head of engineering Adrien Noble and PhD chemist Mia Stankovic. Carbonyx is building a shipping-container-sized demonstration unit intended to move production from kilograms per year to multi-tonnes, with an anticipated commercial-scale-like deployment in two to three years and a goal of megatonne-scale extraction within 10 years. The startup plans to broaden its recovered- materials portfolio over time to include critical minerals and rare earth elements while generating revenue from the materials it sells to make carbon removal economically viable.

Total raised

$1M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Apr 2026