CarbVault
About CarbVault

Carb = Carbon. Vault = Unbreakable security.

Founded in 2024 in San Francisco by climate scientists and fintech engineers, we bring bank-level trust to the carbon markets the world is racing to scale.

Mission

To make every carbon credit verifiable, tradeable and accountable — at the speed and scale climate change demands.

Vision

A world where the carbon market rivals equities in trust, liquidity and transparency by 2030.

Values

Scientific rigor, institutional integrity, radical transparency, and an obsession with execution.

Our story

Built by people who lived the broken status quo.

Our founders met at a 2023 climate finance conference in Geneva, sharing a frustration: the carbon market everyone was betting on to fund the energy transition was running on spreadsheets, PDFs and trust networks from a previous era.

A 2024 study found that over 90% of rainforest credits from the largest provider were "phantom credits." Verification took 18 months. Settlement was OTC. There was no Bloomberg, no Stripe, no source of truth.

We started CarbVault to build it — combining satellite-grade MRV, immutable registries, institutional trading and multi-framework reporting in one vault. Today we serve 150+ enterprises across 4 continents and are backed by Odra Venture and a syndicate of climate-fintech investors.

The team

Climate scientists. Fintech engineers. Operators.

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Dr. Elena Vasquez
Co-founder & CEO

Former climate scientist at Stanford. Led IPCC working group on land-use accounting.

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Marcus Chen
Co-founder & CTO

Ex-Stripe staff engineer. Built core payments infrastructure for $700B/yr in flow.

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Dr. Amara Okonkwo
Chief Science Officer

Remote sensing PhD. Pioneered ML-based MRV at NASA JPL and ESA.

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Sarah Lindqvist
Chief Sustainability Officer

Former Head of ESG at a top-tier asset manager managing $400B AUM.

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James O'Brien
Head of Engineering

Previously led platform at Plaid. Distributed systems specialist.

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Priya Sharma
Head of Product

Ex-Bloomberg terminal PM. Built trading workflows used by 320k+ professionals.

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Tomás Reyes
Head of Markets

Former carbon trader at BP, with 12 years on global compliance markets.

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Mei Tanaka
Head of Compliance

Built ESG disclosure programs at three Fortune 100 industrials.

Backed by

Odra Venture & climate-fintech leaders

Odra Venture
Lowercarbon
Breakthrough Energy
Sequoia Climate
Generation IM
Where we work

San Francisco · London

San Francisco — HQ
548 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94104
London — EMEA
12 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1AS, UK

Want to help build the carbon vault?

We're hiring across engineering, science and operations.

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