Green steel, clean cement
Company Name
Cocoon
Founded
November 2023
Cohort
Cambridge Cohort 5
City
London
Country
UK
Founders & Roles
Eliot Brooks, CEO
Will Knapp, CSO
Freddie Scott, CTO
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The Solution
Cocoon is capturing CO₂ into industrial waste and upcycling this into a green cement alternative to decarbonise the steel and cement industries. This mineralisation process has been the focus of the Chief Scientist Officer’s research and Cocoon is now commercialising it at scale.
The Problem
Impact
Cocoon is building carbon capture for heavy industry and creating low-carbon construction ma- terials for the builders of tomorrow. The company makes steel green, and cement clean. For every 1 tonne of slag upcycled, 1 tonne of CO2 is negated. Cocoon is targeting the production of over 10 million tonnes of SCM /and therefore CO2 reduction by 2034.
News
From Venture Builder to $15m Series A: Cocoon accelerates the low-carbon cement revolution
What started as a vision in our Venture Builder has, in just over two years, grown into a company closing a $15M Series A. Cocoon is now preparing to deploy its first commercial production facility in the US.
Podcast – Climate Takes – Concrete
In this episode we welcome Eliot Brooks, CEO and Co-Founder of Cocoon Carbon, the concrete decarbonisation company that went from a standing start to $5million raise in 18 months.
Cocoon raises $5.4M to decarbonise cement industry
Cocoon, established in Cohort 5 of our Cambridge Venture Builder programme, is on a mission to decarbonise the cement industry (responsible for about 8% of planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions). 200 million tonnes of steel slag are produced each year (and growing),...