UP Catalyst

🚀 We're Hiring a Chief Operating Officer (COO)! 🚀   Up Catalyst is on a mission to become No 1 sustainable battery carbon raw material supplier. We seek a strategic and dynamic leader to join our team and partner with our C-level executives.   What You'll Do: ✔️ Lead and scale our operations to new heights ✔️ Drive operational efficiency and implement growth strategies ✔️ Collaborate closely with the executive team to shape the company’s future ✔️ Foster an inclusive, high-performance culture across teams   What We’re Looking For: ✨ Proven track record in a senior operational role ✨ Strong leadership skills with a focus on execution ✨ Experience scaling a growing company ✨ Strong desire to make an impact. 📩 Apply today via linkedin or share with someone in your network who might be a great fit! #Hiring #COO #Leadership #Operations #JobOpportunity We’re #hiring. Know anyone who might be interested?

UP Catalyst introduces our new Battery Testing Lab, headed by Dr. Ann Laheäär! The lab will enable: 1. Testing multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) in various battery chemistries. 2. Enhancing MWCNTs based on in-house testing results. 3. Reducing development time for new battery materials and technologies. At the same time, UP Catalyst is also happy to announce that our Innovation Lead, Mirjam-Kim Rääbis, will participate in a 9-month visiting scholar exchange program at UC San Diego, gaining expertise in #coin #cell making abroad! #EV #Batteries #DeepTech #MWCNTs

🚛 UP Catalyst Production is moving to a larger location! Just in time for our fifth anniversary, our Production team has moved to a larger facility near the Iru waste-to-energy power plant, located just a 20-minute ride from Tallinn. This new space accommodates more equipment and team members, with a direct power connection line from Iru in the future. Maardu area is developing rapidly and we're excited to be neighbours with the new Elcogen factory that is currently under construction nearby. More cleantech production in Estonia? Absolutely!

Advancing Sustainability at NORDEEP Summit - Deep Tech Business Summit 2024! 🚀 Yesterday, we had the incredible opportunity to attend the Nordeep - Deep Tech Business Summit 2024 in Espoo, Finland. As the world’s leading deep tech business summit, NORDEEP brought together everything a deep tech startup needs: funding, experts, talent, and clients—all under one roof. Our CEO, Gary Urb, PhD, and CFO, Rait Maasikas, took the main stage to share our mission of making batteries more sustainable by locally producing carbon materials from CO2. We're thrilled to be at the forefront of deep tech innovation and can't wait to see what the future holds! #DeepTech #Innovation #Sustainability #NordeepSummit2024 #TechForGood

🎉 🥂 🎂 Last week, UP Catalyst celebrated its fifth anniversary! From the initial idea to a lab-scale reactor producing several grams a day, to a container-sized reactor with a production capacity of 10 tons per year, we have achieved big milestones. The quality of our carbon materials produced from CO₂ emissions has been verified by research institutions, our clients and partners. We still have a long journey ahead, with the goal of establishing at least 200 CO₂ utilisation facilities of various scales across the EU to supply sustainable graphite and carbon nanomaterials to European battery manufacturers and other industries. A big and warm thank you to the UP Catalyst core team, all our new team members and interns, as well as our investors, partners, and friends for being with us! Photo credit: Erlend Štaub.

📣 We extended our €4M seed round with another €2.3M to accelerate the production scale-up. The urgency of increasing our production capacity has never been clearer as we work to provide a local, sustainable alternative to fossil fuel-based imports from China. ❗ By 2030, the EU will require 3 million tons of carbon materials for electric vehicle batteries. Despite having the potential to utilise 11 million tons of CO₂ through existing technology, the EU currently invests in underground storage and imports fossil-based materials. ✅ Additional investment will allow us to finalise the construction of the new reactor faster, which will boast a production capacity ten times larger 📈 than the current setup, marking a significant milestone towards the construction of a large-scale industrial facility in 2030. 💡 The funding round saw equal participation from Warsaw Equity Group, a leading private investment firm in Central and Eastern Europe, and Estonia's state fund SmartCap, who also contributed to the previous seed round. Existing investors, including Extantia, Sunly, Little Green Fund, Scottish Baltic Invest, and UniTartu Ventures, continue to support UP Catalyst’s mission to scale its production capabilities.  Massive thanks to the whole team and to Gary Urb, PhD, Sebastian Pohlmann, Teele Niidas, Rait Maasikas, Einar Karu, Karl-Gustav Tamberg, Ann Laheäär, Sander Trofimov

We are happy to have been selected as one of the eight start-ups for LeapSprong Amsterdam program facilitated by Rockstart and Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam ! During the coming months, UP Catalyst will explore ways to contribute positively to Amsterdam’s goal of becoming a climate-neutral and circular city. To read more: https://lnkd.in/gMnxCKi2 How does UP Catalyst make cities and industries more sustainable? 1. UP Catalyst helps industries to reduce their CO₂ emission by converting them into valuable carbon materials. CO₂ footprint of our product is less than 0.1 ton of CO₂-eq/ton of material. 2. We provide industries with locally produced graphite and carbon nanomaterials, enabling them to move away from fossil-based carbon.

We are very happy to join CO2 Value Europe, a non-profit association representing the Carbon Capture and Utilisation community in Europe. Thanks to Tudy Bernier, Anastasios Perimenis, and the CO2 Value Europe team, we learn among the first about upcoming CCU-related legislation and can also contribute to shaping it. Thank you to Susan Fancy from the Global CO2 Initiative for bringing us together! #CCU #CCUS #CarbonCapture

🎙️ Excited to share podcast episode, where Matt Ferrell interviews UP Catalyst's CTO, Dr. Sebastian Pohlmann. From this episode you will learn:  • How carbon dioxide can be transformed back into carbon and oxygen.  • Why policies is the biggest challenge in scaling the technology.  • What is better for the planet in the long run: CO₂ geological storage and CO₂ utilisation?  • What are the next steps for UP Catalyst? Listen to the full episode: https://lnkd.in/dufvYvZS #CCU #CCUS #graphite #CarbonNanotubes

Turning CO₂ into carbon: an economically viable process or like putting toothpaste back into the tube? Listen to Ryan Grant Little podcast episode featuring Dr Sebastian Pohlmann to learn about how the technology works and how it compares to other carbon material production methods! #CCU #graphite #EV #anode #CarbonNanotubes