Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

How we met: CarbonRun was introduced to us through our network and participated in our Ocean MBA. 

Propeller theme: Ocean Carbon

Propeller investment stage: Pre-Seed

Rooted in decades of scientific research, CarbonRun is a mission-driven organization that draws down and stores carbon dioxide for long-term impact while enhancing water quality, fostering aquatic biodiversity, restoring fish stocks, and contributing to community well-being through capacity building and local employment. 

By harnessing the power of natural alkaline rock particles, CarbonRun's scalable, cost-effective, and safe solution rebalances the natural carbon cycle, ensuring rivers play a pivotal role in mitigating climate change.

• Why we love the founders – CarbonRun is built on decades of research by Shannon Sterling, and restoration work by Eddie Halfyard. Paired with Luke Connell’s business sense this is a classic trio of founders complementing one another’s skills. 
• What’s novel about CarbonRun – CarbonRun stands out because they are already deploying their solution. The approach - Riverine Alkalinity Enhancement - is empowered through their co-benefits in the watershed and community, enabling powerful support for implementation.
• Why we’re excited about this market – Everyone seems to agree that there is a large and growing carbon market taking shape. CarbonRun specifically is way ahead of everyone else in deploying and delivering removals, so we love that this market may shape up sooner than later and this team is poised to have an outsized impact.
• How impactful CarbonRun could be – The carbon removal is meaningful in and of itself, easily achieving megaton scale with potential to hit gigaton scale – in this decade (not far off in the future). Taken with the incredible co-benefits CarbonRun provides to river ecosystems, this is a solution worth scaling, fast.

Learn more about CarbonRun at https://carbonrun.io/