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Alt Carbon has raised $12 million in a seed round as it plans to scale its carbon dioxide removal work in India .

The climate-tech startup locks away carbon for thousands of years through enhanced rock weathering on farmlands.

By 2030 , the startup aims to remove 5 million tons of carbon from the region, Sparsh Agarwal said.

Alt Carbon secured a $ 500,000 pre-purchase by Frontier and a $1 billion advanced market commitment led by Stripe , Alphabet , Meta , Shopify, and McKinsey .

It recently signed a strategic partnership with a buyer coalition, NextGen , started by South Pole and Mitsubishi Corporation , to scale its enhanced rock weathering.