Biochar Industrial Group raises $1.5m to turn Africa’s agricultural waste into carbon credits
BIG will also use the capital to hire engineering, operations, logistics, and carbon-verification staff and build systems to monitor and verify the carbon removed through its process.
Biochar Industrial Group (BIG), a climate-tech startup founded by former Releaf executives, has raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding to turn agricultural waste from African food factories into carbon-removal credits. The company will use the funding to deploy pyrolysis equipment at food-processing facilities, where it will convert waste such as nut shells, husks, and cobs into biochar—a charcoal-like material that can store the carbon contained in the original biomass waste.
BIG will finance and operate the equipment itself, while the factories supply the waste and receive a share of the resulting value.
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