Without the agricultural gains of synthetic fertilizer, it is estimated the world population would only be half as large as it is today. Yet, our reliance on synthetic fertilizer using the 100-year old Haber-Bosch process has major downsides: the production, transportation, and over-application of fertilizer generate 7% of global GHG emissions, especially in runoff of N2O, which has 265x the warming potential of CO2.
Nitricity sells ultra-low-cost, solar-powered plasma cells that produce fertilizer on-site and on-demand. Their technology fixes nitrogen from the air, then combines it with other nutrients to produce a range of products, such as nitric acid and calcium nitrate. This innovation integrates directly with a farm’s irrigation system, enabling a precise and measurable supply of fertilizer anywhere in the world.
Nitricity upends the fertilizer industry’s massive, dirty, and expensive centralized model with distributed fertilizer production systems powered by solar energy. The result is greater granularity in the quantity, composition, and timing of fertilizer application. For farmers, this works out to higher yields and lower costs on a per-acre basis, all while reducing GHG emissions by an estimated 81%.
Location: United States, California, San Francisco
Total raised: $25M
Investors 5
Date | Name | Website |
- | Lowercarbo... | lowercarbo... |
13.08.2021 | Energy Imp... | energyimpa... |
08.11.2022 | Khosla Ven... | khoslavent... |
- | Virta Vent... | virtaventu... |
- | Fine Struc... | finestruct... |
Funding Rounds 2
Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
18.10.2022 | - | $20M | Khosla Ven... |
12.08.2021 | Seed | $5M | - |
Mentions in press and media 9
Date | Title | Description | Source |
18.12.2023 | Chipotle Mexican Grill Invests in Nitricity | Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) is investing in Nitricity, a San Francisco, California-based comp... | finsmes.co... |
20.10.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: new investments in alternative fat... | This week saw two new investments in startups making alternative fat products: Australia’s Nourish I... | agfunderne... |
18.10.2022 | Brief: Khosla & others pour $20m into Nitricity’s on-far... | US startup Nitricity has closed a $20 million Series A round for its climate-friendly nitrogen produ... | agfunderne... |
26.01.2022 | New EIP fund to invest in tech that banishes emissions and g... | With the catchy moniker Deep Decarbonization Frontier Fund, Energy Impact Partners has captured $200... | techcrunch... |
18.01.2022 | Pulling fertilizer out of thin air with solar power | Nitricity is using solar electricity to extract nitrogen directly from our air to produce nitric aci... | pv-magazin... |
16.08.2021 | Brief: Chris Sacca’s Lowercarbon Capital raises $800m | Lowercarbon Capital, the climate change-focused VC firm launched by early Twitter and Uber investor ... | agfunderne... |
12.08.2021 | Fertilizer Created from Lightning: Nitricity Raises $5 Milli... | Nitricity, an agtech startup with unique technology to produce renewable nitrogen fertilizer at poin... | marketscre... |
12.08.2021 | Fertilizer Created From Lightning: Nitricity Raises $5 Milli... | Electrified Fertilizer Customized for Fields and Farmers Rather Than Factories and Freight; Eliminat... | aithority.... |
12.08.2021 | Nitricity Raises $5M in Seed Funding | Nitricity, a San Francisco, CA-based agtech startup with technology to produce renewable nitrogen fe... | finsmes.co... |