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.

Below 200/t

Today

Below €100/t

At scale

20+ innovators

Improving our system with their technology

CO2 removed. Water produced.

2 tonnes of water per tonne captured

Remove carbon.
Produce water.
Restore land.
Create impact that compounds.

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.
Oasis creates 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.

CO₂Zero is not just our name. It is our destination.

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Net zero stops the rise.

CO₂Zero reverses it.

Our Technology

Pioneering Clean Air Technologies

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external equipment, and water-intensive regeneration, while being built around a single technology that becomes outdated as the industry advances.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 the steam infrastructure and much of the external equipment conventional DAC depends on. Fewer process steps and components reduce both capital and operating costs, enable faster deployment, and bring our 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.

Every major breakthrough risks making conventional, single-technology DAC units obsolete. Our component-level modular platform does the opposite, allowing each unit to 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 and where conventional, water-dependent DAC cannot operate.

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 innovations from around the world once they are de-risked.

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We are not betting on one breakthrough. We are building the platform that lets every breakthrough scale.

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Currently
Below €200 per tonne

At industrial scale
Below €100 per tonne

 

Why CDR

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.

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.

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Reduce emissions
Prevent additional CO₂ wherever possible

Reach net zero
Remove enough CO₂ to balance unavoidable emissions

Go net negative
Remove humanity’s excess carbon and lower atmospheric concentrations

 

Ik gebruik imagegen voor een echte top-down dronecompositie: de modulaire DAC-site als geometrisch middelpunt in een bloeiende woestijn, met wegen, leidingen, waterretentie en herstelde vegetatie duidelijk zichtbaar van bovenaf.

Why DAC

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.

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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.

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OUR 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.

Our Team

Mareno de Kort

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

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

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

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

Prof. Dr. Ir. Martin van Sint Annaland

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

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

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

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.