Frontier, the $925m carbon removal effort funded by Stripe and other big tech companies, has revealed the first batch of companies it is supporting that are developing carbon removal technology.

After reviewing 26 applications, Frontier has selected six carbon removal companies that it will support with pre-purchase agreements, which means it is giving an advance payment for carbon removal in the future.

Stripe will spend a total of $2.4m buying carbon removal from these companies, with another $5.4m ready for projects that reach “agreed upon technical milestones”.

The Stripe subsidiary Frontier was launched in April in collaboration with Alphabet, Shopify, Meta and McKinsey Sustainability. The companies plan to commit an initial $925m over the next nine years to purchase carbon removal from suppliers developing and scaling new technologies.

Frontier will also be funded by businesses that use Stripe Climate, the carbon removal purchase tool that was launched in the US in 2020 and globally last year.

Frontier has facilitated its first carbon removal purchases on behalf of Stripe and the tens of thousands of companies using Stripe Climate. We’re spending $8M on removal from six new suppliers and we’ll be the first customer for each of them. https://t.co/GBQ8URFO4X

— Stripe (@stripe) June 29, 2022

Frontier is described as an advance market commitment, which is a model used to create a market for developing products. This model showed success for developing the vaccine market.

Vaccine alliance Gavi agreed to buy large quantities of the pneumococcal vaccine in 2009 at established prices to provide an incentive to pharma companies to accelerate the development of these vaccines for low-income countries.

Frontier said the majority of its $925m fund will go towards paying for future carbon removal supply at the time it’s delivered. The Stripe subsidiary said these “multiyear offtake agreements” aim to give the most promising carbon removal companies a pathway to scale.

“In order for there to be enough companies eligible for offtakes in future years, we must get a critical mass of promising companies to the starting line now.” Frontier said in a statement. “Over the next few years, low-volume prepurchases – like those we’re announcing today – will continue to be an area of focus for Frontier.”

The six companies that are receiving advance payments for carbon removal are AspiraDAC, Calcite-Origen, Lithos Carbon, RepAir, Travertine, and Living Carbon.

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