Swiss climate technology enterprise Cotierra has successfully secured three million dollars in a new financing round to expand its decentralized biocharBiochar is a carbon-rich material created from biomass decomposition in low-oxygen conditions. It has important applications in environmental remediation, soil improvement, agriculture, carbon sequestration, energy storage, and sustainable materials, promoting efficiency and reducing waste in various contexts while addressing climate change challenges. More production systems across international tropical agricultural supply chains. Co-led by PINC—the venture arm of the food and beverage company Paulig—and Carbon Removal Partners, with participation from several other financial institutions, this capital injection brings the firm’s total funds raised to approximately four million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars since its inception.

The primary challenge addressed by this initiative involves the high logistical costs and inefficiencies associated with managing organic agricultural waste in distributed tropical regions. Traditional residue disposal methods often fail to capture nutrient value or sequester carbon effectively, leaving supply chains vulnerable to declining soil health, yield instability, and rising carbon emissions across critical commodities.

To resolve this issue, the company deploys a specialized approach that integrates localized reactor hardware with an advanced digital monitoring platform. This system enables agricultural businesses and farmers to convert local crop residues—such as those generated in coffee cultivation—into high-quality soil amendments directly at the source of biomassBiomass is a complex biological organic or non-organic solid product derived from living or recently living organism and available naturally. Various types of wastes such as animal manure, waste paper, sludge and many industrial wastes are also treated as biomass because like natural biomass these More generation, ensuring rigorous traceability and verification of carbon removal outcomes.

As a result of this financing and operational model, the organization is transitioning successfully from initial pilot projects to multi-year commercial deployments backed by an established order backlog. The new capital will facilitate the industrialization of its technology and support broader market expansion into other major tropical commodities, including cocoa, cotton, and citrus, thereby establishing decentralized carbon removal as a scalable standard for agricultural value chains.