Nicholas Flanders | Source | Co-Founder & CEO at twelve.co
Nicholas Flanders
Nicholas Flanders is co-founder and CEO of Opus 12, a Bay Area startup that has developed technology to recycle CO2 emissions back into valuable products. He was featured among Forbes’s 30 Under 30 in Energy in 2016. He co-founded Opus 12 while in graduate school at Stanford, where he was pursuing a joint MBA/MS in engineering with a focus on renewable power.
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twelve.co
Co-Founder & CEO
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These startups are turning CO2 into vodka, shoes and car interiors
The carbon tech sector may have the potential to lower the world’s carbon dioxide emissions by over 10 percent. Venture capitalists are interested.
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The Air Force partners with Twelve, proves it’s possible to make jet fuel out of thin air
Air Force Operational Energy endorsed the carbon transformation company Twelve to launch a pilot program to demonstrate that their proprietary technology could convert CO2 into operationally viable
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Twelve, Formerly Opus 12, Secures $57 Million in Series A Funding Led by Capricorn and Carbon Direct
Carbon transformation startup Twelve has raised $57 million in Series A funding from lead investors Capricorn Technology Impact Fund and Carbon Direct
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Backing from this group of high-caliber investors allows us to build out our team and expand our partnerships to give businesses a tool to reduce emissions in their existing supply chains, and consumers the opportunity to make a real climate impact with their purchasing decisions without compromising on the quality of products they love. Carbon transformation is the new business transformation.
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With carbon transformation, we are untethering aviation from petroleum supply chains. The Air Force has been a strong partner in our work to advance innovative new sources of aviation fuel.
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This is a new way of moving carbon through our economy without pulling it out of the ground.
