In a city built on ambition, it takes a rare kind of vision to look at the water beneath the Brooklyn Navy Yard and see the future of climate tech. That’s exactly what Dr. Garrett Boudinot did when he founded Vycarb in 2022, a Brooklyn-born company turning H₂O into a weapon against CO₂. Where others talk about carbon removal, Vycarb delivers proof. They don’t just capture carbon; they lock it into water as stable bicarbonate, measured in real time, stored for millennia, and verified to the molecule. No model guessing, no fuzzy math, just chemistry, sensors, and conviction running on precision.
Dr. Garrett Boudinot isn’t your average founder surfing the green wave. With a PhD in Geology from the University of Colorado Boulder and a research stint at Cornell studying soil carbon, he built Vycarb on a simple truth: if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. His team built the tech to do both. Vycarb’s system takes CO₂ from industrial or natural sources, dissolves it into water as bicarbonate, and tracks every molecule through advanced sensors that analyze CO₂, HCO₃, and CO₃ in real time. It’s climate chemistry that runs like code, and it scales where others stall.
Vycarb just secured a $5M Seed round led by Twynam Earth Fund, joined by MOL Switch, Hatch Blue, Clocktower Ventures, Idemitsu, and SGInnovate. These aren’t the “spray and pray” investors; they bet on physics, not PR. This funding fuels Vycarb’s push to expand globally and deploy modular systems that each remove 1K–10K tons of CO₂ per yr. They’re building distributed removal networks that live inside cement plants, coastal ports, and bioenergy sites, places where emissions flow heavy and water does the work quietly.
The Vycarb crew is a Brooklyn blend of science and swagger. There’s software engineer Lindsey Dukles keeping the data tight, ocean engineer Jason Glover with 30+ yrs in marine systems, and Greg Humphries, VP Operations, steering scale with NYU Stern precision. Scientists Benjamin Smith (Caltech alum) and Lydi Keppler (Scripps Institution) drive the chemistry forward, while engineers like Olivia Driscoll and Prafull Moona bring next-gen hardware energy. It’s a mix of brainpower and grit that feels more like a movement than a startup.
Vycarb’s not chasing credits; they’re earning them. Buyers like Stripe and Milkywire are already locked in, and they’re a semifinalist in the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s carbon removal program, potentially the first federal CDR offset purchase in history. For a company born from one scientist’s frustration with bad data, that’s poetic justice.
