Overview
Terranova provides carbon credits by sequestering carbon in the ground using underground wood chips to raise land and prevent inundation of plots and structures. The wood chips method works by distributing and burying wood chips underground, offering a low-cost way to elevate land and capture CO2 in trees and soil; the credits are sold through their website. The company differentiates itself through a low-cost, scalable approach to elevation compared with traditional methods and by tying forest-management incentives to chip-based sequestration, including encouraging removal of dead trees to prevent future fires that would release CO2. The goal is to build a market for wood chips that incentivizes local forest stewardship and CO2 sequestration, encapsulated in the motto “Think Globally, Sequester Locally.”
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What believers are saying
- The November 2025 $7 million seed round signals investor conviction and runway.
- Terranova quoted a $92 million San Rafael project, showing municipal demand.
- Carbon-credit and biomass markets strengthen Terranova’s dual-revenue story in 2026.
What critics are saying
- Terranova still has no completed commercial project by November 2026.
- If San Rafael and California permits stall, Terranova’s whole deployment model dies.
- Competing flood-resilience contractors can copy cheaper fill methods before Terranova proves unit economics.
What makes Terranova unique
- Terranova’s November 2025 seed-funded robots raise land without seawalls or fill.
- Its wood-waste slurry turns forest residue into permanent elevation and carbon-storage infrastructure.
- Only Terranova markets autonomous subsurface injection for flood-prone land at construction scale.
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