| Pathway | Enabling Tech |
|---|---|
| Secondary pathways | Enabling Tech |
| Method | Biochar |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Website | https://www.altitudecarbon.com/ |
| altitude-sustainable | |
| Status | ๐ข Active (score: 75/100) |
| Company size | Micro (under 10) (EU SME size class, derived from the LinkedIn size band; exact headcounts are not published) |
| CDI Portfolio | yes |
| CDR Focus | ecosystem |
About
Altitude is a Switzerland-based carbon removal financier that provides structured offtake and financing to CDR suppliers, primarily biochar developers, via its Ascent purchasing facility. Launched in February 2025, Ascent 1 was initially sized at 50,000 tonnes and expanded to 250,000 tonnes in September 2025, with commitments across Southeast Asia and West Africa biochar facilities certified under Puro.earth.
History
- 2026-10-15 โ refresh: coresignal
- 2026-10-15 โ refresh: coresignal
- 2026-09-25 โ news mention: Carbon Removal India Alliance: รฐยยยฎรฐยยยณ Indiaรขยยs Top Carbon Removal Suppliers รฐยยยฎรฐยยยณ As durable c (source)
- 2026-09-15 โ refresh: coresignal, screenshot
- 2026-08-23 โ news mention: Altitude Carbon: Altitude is expanding its partnership with Fusinite: higher quality data to support (source)
- 2026-08-15 โ refresh: coresignal
- 2026-08-09 โ news mention: Altitude Carbon: What does demand actually look like in the biochar carbon credit market right now? (source)
- 2026-08-09 โ news mention: 377 biochar companies dominate the CDR Directory, and this chart shows their pure-play violin sprawl (source)
- 2026-08-03 โ news mention: Equilibrium Carbon Capture 2026, $25.2M Altitude Deal - EnkiAI (source)
- 2026-08-01 โ news mention: Altitude Carbon: India has the potential to become one of the world’s most important biochar markets (source)
- 2026-08-01 โ news mention: Altitude Carbon Capture 2026, 965k Tonne Equilibrium Deal (source)
- 2026-07-25 โ news mention: Altitude Carbon: We’re partnering with Equilibrium in India for 180.000t CDRs. Thanks to all our par (source)
- 2026-07-15 โ refresh: coresignal
- 2026-07-15 โ refresh: coresignal
- 2026-06-15 โ refresh: coresignal
- 2026-06-15 โ refresh: coresignal
- 2026-06-09 โ news mention: Thanks to Nasdaq for hosting Benjamin Schulz Altitude discussing the potential of large scale CDR fi (source)
- 2026-06-06 โ news mention: This Week in CDR - June 5, 2026 | CDR.fyi (source)
- 2026-06-05 โ news mention: Altitude partners with Equilibrium for a Long-Term Bet on India: A Landmark 180,000t CDR Offtake (source)
- 2026-06-04 โ news mention: India-Based Equilibrium Inks New Biochar Deal With Altitude (source)
- 2026-05-25 โ news mention: Altitude and Fusinite Partner for Scientific Insights Across Carbon Removal Portfolio (source)
- 2026-05-01 โ refresh: coresignal, screenshot
- 2026-05-01 โ refresh: screenshot
- 2026-05-01 โ refresh: screenshot, liveliness
- 2026-05-01 โ liveliness: ๐ก Moderate โ ๐ข Active
- 2026-04-29 โ news mention: Toward Environment-Aware LAE: SAR as a Shared Sensing Infrastructure (source)
- 2026-04-22 โ news mention: Altitude partners with Engrow for +425,000t CDRs from Biochar Facilities in India (source)
- 2026-04-19 โ merged 1 duplicate(s): Altitude Carbon
- 2026-04-19 โ refresh: coresignal, screenshot, liveliness
- 2026-04-19 โ liveliness: ๐ข Active โ ๐ก Moderate (source)
AI-maintained, may contain errors. I keep this entry current from public signals (news, registries, press releases, web search); the status and the description are estimates, not verified facts. Size class from LinkedIn size bands; exact headcounts are not published. Seed list: Grant Faber's CDR company list (January 2026, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Corrections: info@carbon-drawdown.de. The same data as CSV, JSON and API.