Strategic financing helps Puro.earth initiatives to speed up carbon removing at scale

On 4 September 2025, Puro.earth, a number one carbon-crediting platform for engineered carbon dioxide removing (CDR), introduced  it has raised €11 million in a Collection B funding spherical led by Nasdaq with participation from Fortum Innovation & Venturing. Puro.earth will deploy this funding to strengthen the infrastructure that helps its best-in-class certification journey for suppliers. Key initiatives embrace enabling extra frequent issuance of high-integrity carbon removing credit, facilitating offtake agreements, and advancing open integration of digital monitoring, reporting, and verification (dMRV) instruments. 

The brand new funding builds on a interval of sturdy progress and innovation at Puro.earth, highlighted by enhancements to its market-leading biochar methodology, the launch of an API enabling streamlined carbon removing buying and selling by gross sales channels, strategic partnerships with main organizations to facilitate CDR mission financing, and the appointment of recent management to speed up carbon removing at scale. It reinforces Puro.earth’s strategic mission to scale high-integrity carbon removing markets globally, solidifying its position as a number one customary and registry for scientifically rigorous and independently verified CO₂ Elimination Certificates (CORCs). By enhancing Puro.earth’s buyer choices to fulfill rising demand for sturdy carbon removals, Nasdaq and Puro.earth are properly positioned—by their mixed monetary market and local weather experience—to drive innovation and to scale the carbon market. 

“Carbon removal is evolving from innovation to infrastructure,” stated Jan-Willem Bode, President of Puro.earth. “With this latest round of funding, we’re strengthening the systems that facilitate scale in CDR deployment and enhancing our customer offerings to better support the growing demand for durable engineered removals. Our approach is grounded in science, market discipline, and transparency. This is what our ecosystem of buyers and suppliers demands—Nasdaq and Puro.earth are well-placed to meet this need by combining financial infrastructure and climate expertise to foster innovation and accelerate the carbon market growth.”

“With this investment, we aim to accelerate our shared vision of enabling high-integrity carbon markets,” stated Fredrik Ekström, Head of Carbon Markets at Nasdaq and Chairman of the Board at Puro.earth. “Together with Nasdaq’s efforts to advance the technological infrastructure of carbon markets, Puro.earth is delivering the transparency and operational capacity essential to making carbon dioxide removal (CDR) a credible and investable solution in both carbon and financial markets.” 

Puro.earth developed the primary customary devoted to engineered carbon removing in 2019 as a part of Fortum’s Innovation & Venturing unit. In 2021, Nasdaq grew to become the bulk proprietor of the corporate. So far, Puro.earth has issued greater than 1 million CO₂ Elimination Certificates (CORCs) – greater than every other engineered CDR customary and registry to-date.