Groundswell engineers tuberous crops to lock atmospheric carbon into long-lived underground polymers — yielding durable, MRV-grade removal credits and a low-emission biomass for construction.
Two facts the field already accepts: tuberization is a developmental program we can engineer, and lignin is the most recalcitrant carbon pool plants make. Compose them.
Edits are confined to the underground storage organ — leaving the rest of the plant, including yield, untouched.
Inside the tuber, captured carbon is routed into a long-lived, decay-resistant polymer instead of starch.
One hectare yields a verified durable carbon removal credit and a low-embodied-carbon biomass for panels, pellets, or bricks.
Every plant fixes carbon. The challenge is retaining it. Our crops route captured carbon into a long-lived polymer that resists decay on a centuries-long timescale — and store it inside a discrete, harvestable organ.
A durable carbon removal credit, and a low-embodied-carbon biomass for construction. Two revenue streams, no additional land.
The format Frontier ($1B+ AMC), Microsoft (>100 Mt contracted), Google, JPMorgan, and Shopify SCF are paying $200–$500 per tonne to secure — under multi-year offtake.
After credit issuance, the harvest is milled into low-embodied-carbon material that substitutes for cement, gypsum, OSB, and petroleum binders.
Each step answers one biological or commercial question; only then do we scale.
Close pre-seed. Initiate non-dilutive applications (ARPA-E, DOE BER, SBIR).
Demonstrate carbon-locking in the storage organ in a primary tuberous crop.
Initiate the regulatory pathway and limited field testing. Extend to a second tuberous crop. MRV protocol drafted.
First verified durable CDR credit issued. First biomass offtake. Series A.
The science we run is the science we trained on. Groundswell is a genetic engineering of the storage organ company — durable carbon credits and a low-emission building biomass from a single rotation.
Plant developmental biologist. Entrepreneur and VC technologist. Leads strategy, capital formation, partnerships, and commercial development.
Plant developmental biologist. Lab co-founder; leads the science program — from line design through phenotyping.
If you build durable carbon markets, run a plant biotech lab, write checks for climate science, or operate a non-dilutive program for agricultural biotech — we want to hear from you.
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