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Press releases
17 October 2023
Media release | Aspiring Materials' co-founders Dr Allan Scott and Dr Christopher Oze named as Breakthrough Energy Fellows (PDF).
Aspiring Materials has been recognised as one of the “next generation of world changing ideas” by Breakthrough Energy, a innovation accelerator organisation founded by Bill Gates.
06 October 2023
Media release | Musk Foundation’s XPRIZE funds a short film featuring NZ-based Aspiring Materials and their promising carbon removal technology (PDF)
Aspiring Materials is one of 10 global start ups to be selected to feature in a short film as part of the bigger 4 year long global XPRIZE carbon removal competition, where the grand prize winner stands to win US$50m.
26 September 2023
Media release | Motion Capital leads successful capital raise of $1.5M for sustainable carbon removal innovators Aspiring Materials. (PDF)
Motion Capital, a new NZ based venture capital firm founded by Lachlan Nixon, has led an investment of $1.5M to progress Aspiring Materials' scale-up from lab to pilot plant phase.
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23 October 2023
Stuff | The ordinary rock we drive on holds a planet-saving secret
It’s used as cheap gravel on roads, but the unassuming rock olivine could also clean up factories and suck a greenhouse gas from the air. Stuff's Forever Project looks at how this low value rock could hold the secret to how we decarbonise heavy industries.
20 October 2023
RNZ | Kiwi start-up accepted into global sustainability programme
Our CEO Mark Chadderton talks with Todd Zaner on RNZ Nights programme about why Aspiring Materials' stands apart from all other available carbon sequestration technologies.
18 October 2023
BusinessDesk | Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy backs Aspiring Materials (paywalled)
The founders of a Christchurch startup developing carbon sequestration technology have been named as fellows for Breakthrough Energy, an initiative started by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
06 October 2023
BusinessDesk | Elon Musk spotlight on Christchurch carbon capture tech (paywalled)
Aspiring Materials is just one of 10 global start ups to be profiled in a short film funded by the Musk Foundation's XPRIZE accelerator platform Carbon Removal competition.
22 September 2023
Dynamo Energy Hub | Aspiring Materials selected as one of 10 'cutting edge cleantech' businesses set to revolutionise the energy industry.
The fourth annual whitepaper 'Cleantech Innovation, Collaboration, and Climate Action', by Dynamo Energy Hub and UBS, profiles Aspiring Materials' mineralisation process potential for industrial decarbonisation.
20 June 2023
Foodmag.com | PepsiCo announces winners of inaugural APAC Greenhouse Accelerator Program
Selected as just one of two New Zealand start ups to join the PepsiCo Greenhouse Accelerator program (APAC region), Aspiring Materials joins a four-month business optimisation program to accelerate their growth.
11 October 2022
TVNZ | Breakfast News
Our work on olivine and climate-change technology is featured on the morning news program (time stamp 41:30).
11 April 2022
xprize.org | Meet the Competitors in the $100M XPRIZE Carbon Removal
Aspiring Materials is honored to to be selected by XPRIZE as one of its Carbon Removal Top 60, "a group of the most promising carbon removal teams and solutions in the competition so far."
03 April 2022
stuff.co.nz | From pseudo-volcanoes to carbon-sucking rocks. Can technology fix the climate?
21 March 2022
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18 June 2018
TEDx Occidental College | Changing the concrete paradigm