Brilliant Planet | Inactive

About

Brilliant Planet was a London-headquartered startup (founded 2013) that grew marine microalgae in open-air raceway ponds on Morocco’s coastal desert, spray-drying the biomass and burying it in engineered landfills for 1,000+ year storage. It raised a $12M Series A from Union Square Ventures and Toyota Ventures in 2022 and sold 1,500 tons of CDR to Block via Watershed in 2023, but appears to have wound down: the brilliantplanet.com domain now hosts unrelated content, no new funding or construction milestones have been reported since 2023, and a 2025 independent LCA by Below280/Decerna describes the work in past tense.

History

• 2026-10-15 — refresh: coresignal, screenshot, liveliness
• 2026-10-15 — liveliness: 🟡 Moderate → 🟢 Active
• 2026-06-15 — liveliness: 🟢 Active → 🟡 Moderate
• 2026-05-01 — liveliness: 🟡 Moderate → 🟢 Active
• 2026-05-01 — refresh: coresignal, screenshot
• 2026-05-01 — refresh: liveliness
• 2026-05-01 — refresh: liveliness
• 2026-05-01 — liveliness: 🔴 Likely Dead → 🟡 Moderate
• 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biomass Burial focus=supplier liveliness=🔴 Likely Dead (source)
• 2026-04-19 — refresh: coresignal, liveliness
• 2026-04-19 — liveliness: 🔴 Likely Dead → 🟡 Moderate
• 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biomass Burial focus=supplier liveliness=🔴 Likely Dead (source)
• 2026-04-19 — url added from cdr.fyi supplier page: https://www.brilliantplanet.com/ (source)
• 2026-04-19 — discovered via: cdrfyi (source)