PathwayDAC
MethodUnknown
CountryUnited States
Websitehttps://www.gigadac.org/
LinkedIngigadac
Status🟢 Active (score: 75/100)
Company sizeMicro (under 10) (EU SME size class, derived from the LinkedIn size band; exact headcounts are not published)
CDR Focussupplier

About

GigaDAC (legal name Victory Over Carbon Inc.) is a Houston-based direct air capture startup founded in 2022, spun out of Rice University and incubated at Greentown Labs Houston. The company is developing a spray-based DAC process using aerospace engineering principles, targeting costs below $90/ton, and was building a commercial-scale pilot for 2025. Backed by the NSF and Greentown Labs.

GigaDAC website

History

  • 2026-10-15 — refresh: coresignal, screenshot
  • 2026-09-15 — liveliness: 🟡 Moderate → 🟢 Active
  • 2026-08-31 — news mention: GigaDAC/Victory Over Carbon: 700–1,000 tons of CO₂ removal per year, per system. Third-party modelin (source)
  • 2026-05-01 — refresh: coresignal, screenshot
  • 2026-05-01 — refresh: liveliness
  • 2026-05-01 — refresh: liveliness
  • 2026-05-01 — liveliness: 🟢 Active → 🟡 Moderate
  • 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=DAC focus=supplier liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
  • 2026-04-19 — merged 1 duplicate(s): GigaDAC/Victory Over Carbon
  • 2026-04-19 — refresh: coresignal, screenshot
  • 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=DAC focus=supplier liveliness=🟡 Moderate (source)
  • 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=DAC focus=supplier liveliness=🟡 Moderate (source)
  • 2026-04-18 — reclassified: pathway=DAC focus=supplier liveliness=🟡 Moderate (source)
  • 2026-04-18 — backfilled from V1 (source)
  • **** — merged duplicate: GigaDAC/Victory Over Carbon (slug=gigadacvictory-over-carbon)
  • 2026-04-19 — refresh: coresignal, screenshot
  • 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=DAC focus=supplier liveliness=🟡 Moderate (source)
  • 2026-04-19 — url added from cdr.fyi supplier page: https://www.gigadac.org/ (source)
  • 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=DAC focus=supplier liveliness=🟡 Moderate (source)
  • 2026-04-19 — discovered via: cdrfyi (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.