Below €200/t
Today
Competitive from the start
The open DAC company
Carbon removal built to keep getting better.
CO₂Zero combines a proprietary, fully electrified Direct Air Capture core with an open, modular platform that integrates the best innovations from across the industry.
Below €200 per tonne today. Below €100 at scale.
Water-positive by design, our Oasis systems can operate where renewable energy is cheapest and use recovered water to help restore arid land.
Our mission
From net zero to CO₂Zero.
Deep emission reductions alone cannot deliver net zero; carbon removal is essential. Yet net zero only stops atmospheric CO₂ from rising.
CO₂Zero goes further: restoring concentrations towards 300 ppm—a world where humanity’s excess carbon has been removed. Our first defining milestone is to remove one gigaton of CO₂ by 2045.
To get there, we are building Direct Air Capture that can scale technically and economically: fully electrified, modular, continuously upgradeable and designed to run on the world’s lowest-cost renewable energy.
CO₂Zero is not just our name. It is our destination.
Our destination
Restore atmospheric CO₂ towards safer concentrations.
First defining milestone
Permanent CO₂ removal at meaningful scale.
Target year
The infrastructure is being built now.
The Oasis vision
A self-reinforcing climate flywheel.
Our units remove CO₂ and recover clean water from the air. That water supports vegetation, which captures additional CO₂ and produces biomass that can be converted into biochar for more permanent carbon storage.
As the ecosystem grows, it cools the site, increases humidity and suppresses dust, improving both DAC efficiency and solar-panel output. Each tonne removed therefore helps make the next easier and cheaper to remove.
Scaled across suitable arid regions north of the equator, this loop will create fertile landscapes, major food-producing regions and new communities where people displaced by climate change can rebuild their lives while helping reverse it.
Our technology
Proprietary efficiency today. Our integrator model compounds it.
Traditional DAC systems depend on steam generation, substantial external equipment, and water-intensive regeneration, while being built around a single technology that becomes outdated as the industry advances.
We designed CO₂Zero differently. Our platform combines our proprietary electrified DAC architecture with a modular design capable of integrating better components as they emerge.
The result is a radically simpler system that reduces energy use, infrastructure requirements, capital costs, and technological lock-in.
An electrified core
Our proprietary reactor architecture brings electrification and process integration into the heart of the system.
This eliminates steam infrastructure and much of the external equipment conventional DAC depends on. Fewer process steps and components reduce capital and operating costs, enable faster deployment, and bring capture costs below €200/t today and below €100/t at scale.
An open, modular platform
Traditional DAC companies are limited by one technology and one internal R&D team. CO₂Zero turns the combined intelligence of a global innovation ecosystem into our R&D engine.
Our component-level modular platform can integrate advances such as next-generation sorbents throughout its lifetime, continuously improving performance and driving costs down.
Water-positive deployment
Our regeneration process requires no external water and produces clean water instead, unlocking sun-rich regions where renewable electricity is cheapest.
The recovered water then supports land restoration, vegetation, and surrounding communities.
Built from proven technologies
We are not waiting for a speculative scientific breakthrough.
CO₂Zero combines proven technologies in a radically simpler proprietary architecture, then continuously improves it by integrating the strongest de-risked innovations from around the world.
We are not betting on one breakthrough. We are building the platform that lets every breakthrough scale.
Currently · per tonne
Proprietary electrification and process integration.
At industrial scale · per tonne
Factory-built modules and continuous upgrades.
Why carbon removal
Emission cuts are not enough. Net zero requires carbon removal.
Deep and immediate emission reductions are essential, but they cannot achieve net zero alone. Unavoidable emissions from aviation, agriculture, shipping and industry require permanent carbon removal.
Why DAC is the strongest solution →
Yet net zero only stops atmospheric CO₂ from rising. It does not remove the excess carbon already released, which will continue warming the planet for generations. Restoring CO₂ towards safer levels requires net-negative emissions, permanently removing more carbon than humanity emits and increasing the need for CDR beyond net zero.
Emission reductions close the tap. Carbon removal mops up the water already on the floor. We need both.01
Reduce emissions
Prevent additional CO₂ wherever possible.
02
Reach net zero
Remove enough CO₂ to balance unavoidable emissions.
03
Go net negative
Remove humanity’s excess carbon and lower atmospheric concentrations.
Why Direct Air Capture
The highest standard in carbon removal.
Direct Air Capture removes CO₂ directly from the atmosphere, regardless of where or when it was emitted. When the captured carbon is stored geologically or mineralized, it delivers a physical, durable and independently verifiable removal.
Unlike biological approaches, DAC does not compete for vast areas of fertile land, depend on biomass availability, or risk releasing captured carbon through fire, drought, disease, or land-use change. It delivers compact, durable, precisely measurable removal that can be replicated globally and located near abundant clean energy and permanent storage.
This makes DAC uniquely suited to neutralizing residual emissions, removing historical emissions and ultimately operating at gigaton scale.
Permanent
DAC mineralization delivers million-year storage, while forests and soils risk releasing carbon again.
Measurable
Every tonne captured, transported and stored can be directly quantified, monitored and independently verified.
Scalable
DAC can be factory-built and replicated globally, scales independently of limited waste streams, and uses over 1,000 times less land than forests.
Location-flexible
Because CO₂ is evenly distributed throughout the atmosphere, facilities can be built wherever renewable energy is cheapest.
Additional
DAC delivers measurable, additional removal, not estimates of what forests or soils might have done.
Immediate
DAC removes CO₂ immediately, while forests and soils can take decades to deliver comparable removal.
Nature-based removal is also essential, but limited and vulnerable. DAC provides the permanent, measurable and scalable removal needed to close the remaining gap.
Captured CO₂ can also replace fossil carbon in materials and e-fuels, helping build a circular carbon economy. These applications create value and reduce fossil demand, while mineralisation remains the route through which DAC delivers true permanent carbon removal.
See how CO₂Zero makes DAC scalable →Meet the team
The experience to build. The science to lead. The ambition to scale.
CO₂Zero brings together high-growth company building, hands-on hardware development and internationally recognized scientific expertise.
Six months after founding, our modular prototype was running. Now we are building for scale.
Mareno de Kort
CEO & Co-Founder
From exploring DAC as a teenager to leading 3,000+ employees across tech, sustainability and retail. Previously scaled a company beyond 1,000 employees in five years and now drives CO₂Zero’s growth.
Nikola Perišić
Process & Chemical Engineer · Co-Founder
EngD in Process & Product Design from TU/e. Leads the process engineering and development of Oasis.
Kas van Roekel
Mechanical Engineer · Co-Founder
Serial entrepreneur and former engineering-firm founder, specialising in system integration, rapid prototyping and additive manufacturing. Leads mechanical development and technology integration.
Rik van den Reijen
Mechanical & Electrical Engineer · Co-Founder
Serial entrepreneur and former engineering-firm founder, specialising in PLCs, electrical systems and automation. Leads the controls architecture behind our modular platform.
Our advisors
International expertise. Connected to deployment.
Prof. Dr. Ir. Martin van Sint Annaland
Eindhoven University of Technology
International expert in process electrification, reactor engineering and process intensification.
Prof. Dr. Ir. Earl Goetheer
Delft University of Technology
Leading Dutch carbon-capture expert with extensive industrial experience, more than 100 publications and over 50 patents.
Prof. Dr. Susana García López
Heriot-Watt University
Internationally recognized expert in carbon capture materials, DAC sorbents and accelerated materials discovery.
Prof. Dr. Atsushi Urakawa
Delft University of Technology
Internationally recognized researcher at the intersection of Direct Air Capture, catalysis and CO₂ conversion.
Join us
Work on something that needs to exist.
We are looking for engineers, scientists, operators and builders who want to help turn carbon removal into global infrastructure.
At CO₂Zero, you will not spend years developing technology that remains inside a laboratory. You will help design, build and scale physical systems that combat climate change.
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Partner with us
From breakthrough to global impact, we scale it together.
The future of DAC will not be built by one company or one technology. CO₂Zero is the first open DAC integrator, uniting 20+ innovators in one modular platform. Together, we validate technologies faster, build better systems, and drive costs down beyond what any closed, single-technology company can achieve.
For technology innovators
You have developed a better sorbent, membrane, material, component, sensor or process. You should not need to build an entire DAC company to bring it to market.
Our platform enables comparative testing, system integration, commercial validation and scaled deployment, so you can stay focused on advancing your core innovation.
Integrate your technology →For project developers
You provide the land, financing and permits. We handle everything else, from engineering and construction to commissioning, maintenance and continuous upgrades.
Our goal is to make DAC development as straightforward as solar or wind, while improving your facility’s performance and returns throughout its lifetime.
Develop a facility →Partner with us in other ways
Whether you provide renewable energy, permanent storage, project locations, manufacturing capacity or CO₂ conversion pathways, we want to work with you.
If you hold a critical piece of the value chain, let’s combine strengths to build stronger projects, deploy faster and create greater value together.
Explore a strategic partnership →For investors and infrastructure capital
The greatest investment opportunities solve the greatest problems. CO₂Zero is building a winning position in carbon removal within a global carbon market projected to reach $2.85 trillion by 2030.
Our low-cost, continuously improving facilities target strong long-term returns while delivering an even greater return: a stable climate, restored ecosystems and a liveable planet.
Speak with our team →
Purchase
Buy carbon removal credits, captured CO₂ or the products it enables.
CO₂Zero is developing Direct Air Capture facilities for buyers seeking permanent carbon-removal credits, a reliable supply of atmospheric CO₂ or future low-carbon products made from captured carbon.
For permanent removal, captured CO₂ is mineralized and independently measured, monitored and verified. Oasis projects also produce clean water and support biochar, afforestation, biodiversity and land restoration, enabling transparent, high-impact blended credit portfolios with benefits far beyond carbon removal alone.
For utilization, buyers can secure captured CO₂ directly or partner with us on pathways including e-methanol, graphite, graphene, carbon nanotubes and carbon black. These applications replace fossil carbon, create valuable materials and expand the commercial potential of every facility.
We are opening discussions for forward purchases, long-term offtake agreements and strategic development partnerships. Early commitments secure future supply, help finance first-of-a-kind facilities and accelerate affordable DAC at global scale.
Carbon removed, supplied or transformed. One affordable source: Oasis. Discuss purchase options →Contact
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The future we are building
Carbon removal will not scale through one company or one breakthrough. It will scale together.
CO₂Zero combines proprietary technology, global innovation and regenerative deployment to make permanent carbon removal affordable at planetary scale.
Remove carbon. Produce water. Restore land. Create impact that compounds.CO₂Zero — The open DAC company.