LanzaTech
8045 Lamon Avenue Suite 400, Skokie, IL, 60077, United States
Overview
LanzaTech offers a technology platform that transforms industrial waste gases such as carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide into valuable chemical intermediates and fuels through microbial gas fermentation. The company’s process captures emissions from heavy-industry sources and uses specialized microbes to convert those gases into ethanol, which is then refined into materials such as monoethylene glycol for packaging, solvents, proteins, and sustainable aviation fuels. LanzaTech integrates its bioconversion system with industrial emitters, enabling the reuse of carbon streams that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere, and supplies downstream manufacturers in sectors including packaging, textiles, and aviation with fossil-alternative feedstocks.
- Total investments
- 1
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 1
- Active investors
- 4
Sector focus
- Carbon Capture
- Clean Energy
- CleanTech
- Commercial
- Financial Services
- Natural Resources
- Recycling
- Renewable Energy
Investment portfolio
- LanzaJet
Participated · Equity · Feb 2026
LanzaJet develops and licenses patented ethanol-based alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) technology to create sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel. Its flagship Freedom Pines Fuels plant in Soperton, Georgia is the world’s first fully integrated, commercial-scale ethanol-to-fuels facility and, in late 2025, produced ASTM on-spec jet fuel, marking the first commercial-scale SAF made from ethanol. The company’s technology offers a non-oil-based, scalable solution compatible with today’s aircraft, positioning it to accelerate decarbonization in aviation. LanzaJet is also advancing Project Speedbird, a major SAF biorefinery planned for Teesside in the United Kingdom, aided by a grant from the UK Department for Transport’s Advanced Fuels Fund. An innovative multi-year tolling structure at Freedom Pines secures waste-based ethanol feedstock and guarantees offtake for all production. Financially, the firm has attracted backing from strategic investors such as Airbus, All Nippon Airways, Breakthrough Energy, IAG, Shell, and Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. The latest capital raise values the company at $650 million pre-money and supports further commercial deployments of its ATJ technology.