Biochar Industrial Group secures $1.5M pre-seed funding led by BREEGA to scale industrial carbon removal across Sub-Saharan Africa.

Biochar Industrial Group (BIG), a Nigerian climate technology company, has raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding to expand its industrial-scale carbon removal business across Sub-Saharan Africa. The funding, led by BREEGA with participation from The Catalyst Fund and non-dilutive support from the Mulago Foundation, will enable BIG to deepen partnerships with food-processing factories and deploy its Biochar-as-a-Service model. BIG converts agricultural waste into carbon removal products while creating additional revenue streams for food processors. The company's technology heats agricultural biomass at temperatures above 600°C in oxygen-deprived environments, converting waste into biochar that locks away carbon for hundreds to thousands of years.