Carbogenesis

Turning industrial CO₂ emissions into valuable industrial inputs.

Carbogenesis is an industrial CleanTech company building modular systems that convert CO₂ and hydrocarbon waste gases into valuable industrial inputs directly at the source. Jetstream invested to support a practical, economically driven approach to industrial decarbonization designed for real-world deployment.

Company Snapshot

• Industry: Industrial Climate Technology
• Sector: CleanTech / Climate Tech
• Focus: Carbon Utilization & Decarbonization Infrastructure
• Technology: Plasma-Based Conversion Systems
• Stage: Early-stage
• Headquarters: Riviera Beach, FL
• Website: www.carbogenesis.com

Portfolio Manager Perspective

“The next generation of industrial decarbonization won’t be driven by theory. It will be driven by technologies that work inside real facilities and make economic sense.”
-Michael Shufeldt, MBA, Portfolio Manager

Company Overview

Carbogenesis focuses on carbon utilization rather than carbon management. Its technology enables industrial facilities to transform waste emissions into useful inputs that can be reused on-site, integrating alongside existing infrastructure instead of requiring operators to overhaul core processes.

By prioritizing deployability, scalability, and economic viability, Carbogenesis is built for adoption in the environments where emissions are actually generated.

The Problem

Heavy industry produces roughly 22 percent of global CO₂ emissions, driven by continuous, high-temperature processes in sectors such as steel, cement, refining, and chemicals. These operations rely on fossil fuels because they are reliable and scalable, which makes emissions deeply embedded in industrial systems and difficult to reduce without significant cost, disruption, or operational trade-offs.

As a result, many decarbonization solutions struggle to move beyond pilots, depend heavily on subsidies, or require costly changes that limit adoption across global industry.

How Carbogenesis Works

Carbogenesis’s systems are designed to operate at industrial facilities where emissions already exist. Using plasma-based conversion technology, the platform converts CO₂ and hydrocarbon waste gases into familiar industrial inputs such as syngas, acetylene, and hydrogen.

These outputs are not experimental materials. Syngas, acetylene, and hydrogen are established industrial inputs with existing demand across fuels, chemicals, materials manufacturing, and energy applications. By producing these inputs directly at industrial sites, Carbogenesis allows emissions to re-enter supply chains that already exist, rather than relying on future markets or speculative use cases.

The technology is built as a modular platform, allowing facilities to install the amount of capacity they need, integrate into existing process streams, and scale over time without interrupting core operations.

Why Carbogenesis Stands Out

Carbogenesis is differentiated by how deliberately its technology is designed around the realities of heavy industry. While many CleanTech solutions struggle to move beyond pilots or depend on ideal conditions, Carbogenesis was built to operate where emissions actually occur and where adoption decisions are made.

What sets the company apart:

• Carbon Utilization, Not Just Capture: Unlike solutions focused solely on capturing and storing emissions, Carbogenesis converts waste gases into usable industrial inputs. This shifts carbon from a long-term liability into something that can re-enter existing value chains.
• Designed for Existing Infrastructure: The platform is built to integrate alongside current industrial systems. Facilities do not need to redesign core processes or halt operations to deploy the technology.
• Modular and Scalable by Design: Each installation can deploy only the reactor capacity it needs and scale over time. This allows operators to match deployment to operational requirements rather than commit to large, upfront infrastructure projects.
• Economically Driven Adoption: Carbogenesis prioritizes solutions that can make sense economically, not just environmentally. The platform is designed to reduce reliance on subsidies and align emissions reduction with operational performance.
• Defensible, Patent-Backed Technology: The company’s patented plasma-reactor technology protects the core conversion process, creating a defensible platform as demand for industrial decarbonization solutions increases.

Together, these factors position Carbogenesis as a platform built for real-world industrial deployment rather than theoretical or infrastructure-heavy decarbonization approaches.

Why We Invested

Carbon has long been treated as an unavoidable cost of industrial operations. Carbogenesis flips that assumption, converting waste emissions into useful inputs instead of something to hide, store, or offset.

Jetstream invested because Carbogenesis combines a large, persistent industrial challenge with a practical and defensible solution. The company is backed by patented plasma-reactor technology that protects the core conversion process, designed for deployment across heavy industry, and led by a team with deep technical and executional expertise. This is the kind of conviction-led CleanTech opportunity that becomes more valuable as decarbonization shifts from ambition to requirement.

Why Now

Industrial decarbonization is accelerating as regulatory expectations, customer requirements, and supply chain standards become unavoidable. Operators are under growing pressure to reduce emissions while maintaining reliability, competitiveness, and continuity of operations.

Carbogenesis is built for this moment. Its approach enables industry to reduce emissions while preserving operational performance and economic viability.

Leadership

Carbogenesis is led by a multidisciplinary team with deep expertise in engineering, plasma science, and intellectual property, supported by an execution-oriented approach to industrial deployment.

• Dr. David Soane – Chief Executive Officer
• Dr. Nathan Ashcraft – Vice President of Engineering
• Dr. Sharon Webb – Chief IP Counsel
• Amber R.E. Dolman – Vice President & General Counsel

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