Opus 12

Opus 12, headquartered in Berkeley, CA , has developed a device that recycles CO2 into cost-competitive chemicals and fuels. The company's technology bolts onto any source of CO2 emissions, and with only water and electricity as inputs, transforms that CO2 into some of the world's most critical chemical and energy products. Founded at Stanford in 2016, Opus 12 launched during the prestigious Cyclotron Road fellowship program at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. The company's founders were featured in Rolling Stone's 25 People Shaping the Next 50 Years , Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy , MIT Technology Review's TR35 Innovators , and the New York Times' Climate Visionaries , and the company was recently featured in Bill Gates's 2019 Netflix documentary, Inside Bill's Brain .