Direct air capture, engineered for scale
We build hardware that makes carbon removal worth doing.
GigaDAC engineers filter-less direct air capture contactors and supplies liquefied, food-grade CO₂ to the industries that depend on it. National Science Foundation backed, independently reviewed, and building at commercial scale.
Who we are
Direct air capture is an airflow problem. We designed for airflow first.
Founded by entrepreneurs and engineers, GigaDAC solves carbon removal through order-of-magnitude improvements in airflow efficiency and kinetic reactivity. Our contactor is hollow: air moves through open volume and meets an ultra-reactive mist, and our separators recover that mist at the lowest air resistance we have measured in any air capture system.
The result is lower capital cost, lower energy, and a design that scales by manufacturing rather than by construction.
Where we stand
Metrics that create value.
- Contactor pressure drop
- <50 PaPublished
Across the demonstration unit, at full design airflow.Basis: NSF Phase II test program
- Capture cost
- <$100/tModeled
Projected capture cost at 40,000 tons per year.Basis: all-in NSF-backed TEA, third-party regeneration design
- Capture per unit
- 700–1,000Design
Tons per annum from a single commercial contactor, roughly the annual uptake of 35,000 trees.Basis: commercial unit capacity
How we bring value to you
Equipment, and the CO₂ it produces.
Alto contactor
A filter-less contactor that integrates with any liquid sorbent and delivers more reactive contact at a fraction of the capital and operating cost of legacy air paths. Use it in a capture deployment, or to create a CO₂ feed stream for fuels and advanced materials.
- Rated1,000 TPA
- Air pathOpen volume
- SorbentAny liquid sorbent
- ScopeContactor and separator
Liquefied food-grade CO₂
The merchant CO₂ market has run tight and volatile because supply is a by-product of somebody else’s process running. Ours is not. We operate our own plants and contract the output directly, at below prevailing market rates.
- FormLiquefied
- GradeFood and beverage
- SourceAtmospheric
- ContractingTerm offtake
Clean, captured, in demand
CO₂ for industries that depend on purity and scale.
Agriculture
Enrichment for greenhouse yield and controlled storage.
Beverage & CPG
Food-grade supply meeting the highest purity and safety standards.
Carbon removal
Atmospheric CO₂ supporting verified removal and offset programs.
Progress
From a concept to hardware in the field.
- System designedComplete
- National Science Foundation support receivedComplete
- System validated through indoor and outdoor testingComplete
- Commercial system designed with key partnersComplete
- NSF funding issued for the first commercial systemComplete
- First commercial system built, commissioned and in sustained operationIn progress
- First contactor deliveries to DAC customersPlanned
- 40,000 ton per year commodity deploymentsPlanned
- Equipment sales into megaton sequestration deploymentsPlanned
Planned entries are intentions, not commitments.
Innovators
Led by aerospace engineering. Backed by policy. Built to scale.
Harrison Rice
Founder & Chief ExecutiveA repeat founder who built a sustainable agriculture company and beverage brand to over 20,000 stores in the U.S. and Japan, and serves as a National Science Foundation panel reviewer.
Barrett Kotnik
Co-founder & VP EngineeringA former Lockheed Martin engineer who has led advanced systems design at Frasca International and through his own consulting firm since 2017.
Dr. Yannick Eatmon
Lead Chemical EngineerHolds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton and a B.S. from MIT, with deep expertise in advanced separation processes.