XPRIZE Carbon Removal
Status
Closed
Closed for now
Concluded. No successor carbon removal XPRIZE has been announced; XPRIZE's active climate competition is now XPRIZE Wildfire.
Amount
$100,000,000
US$100m purse. The US$50m grand prize was awarded in April 2025 to Mati Carbon and the competition has concluded.
Funder
XPRIZE Foundation (Musk Foundation)
private · supranational
Deadline: closed — Competition ran from 2021 to 2025 and has concluded
Your odds
Not published
This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.
Effort
quick
Quick — mostly identity and bank details.
Who can apply
- Sectors: climate, deeptech
- Stage: seed, series_a
- R&D activity required
Source. https://www.xprize.org/prizes/carbonremoval — checked 2026-08-14 · not human-checked