Mission Zero Technologies

Mission Zero Technologies (MZT) is a London-based climate technology company founded in 2020 to pioneer high-efficiency direct air capture (DAC) — the process of removing carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere. The company was spun out of Deep Science Ventures and founded by three chemists and chemical engineers who recognised that existing DAC approaches were too expensive, too energy-intensive and too slow to scale, and set out to build a fundamentally different solution using electrochemical processes and off-the-shelf industrial components.

MZT's modular DAC technology uses a water-based solvent and renewable energy to capture CO₂ without generating heat, significantly reducing energy consumption compared to incumbent approaches. Each system is designed to be deployed rapidly and at any scale — from a single shipping-container-sized unit to multi-megaton installations — and can supply CO₂ for diverse end uses including sustainable aviation fuel, carbon-negative building materials, and permanent underground storage. The company moved from concept to commercial deployment in under three years.

Mission Zero has now deployed three operational DAC systems: the UK's first commercial DAC plant at the University of Sheffield (producing 50 tonnes of CO₂ per year for SAF production), a second plant in Norfolk with O.C.O Technology for manufactured limestone, and a third at Deep Sky's facility in Alberta, Canada — the company's first international deployment. The company raised £21.8 million in Series A funding from 2150, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, World Fund, Fortescue and Siemens Financial Services, and counts Stripe and Klarna among its early carbon removal buyers.