# James Kanoff

> James Kanoff is the co-founder and CEO of Terradot, a climate company using enhanced rock weathering to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere by spreading crushed silicate rock across farmland. He launched Terradot in 2024 with $58.2M in funding, including a $54M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins and backing from Google, Microsoft, John Doerr and Sheryl Sandberg, and has already signed some of the largest carbon-removal deals in the field's history. Before Terradot, while a Stanford undergraduate sent home during the COVID-19 pandemic, he co-founded The Farmlink Project, a nonprofit that has rescued well over 130 million pounds of surplus food for communities facing hunger.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Terradot
- **Organizations:** Terradot, The Farmlink Project, Stanford University
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S., Symbolic Systems, Stanford University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Terradot and raised $58.2M including a $54M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins., Signed nearly 300,000 tons of carbon-removal agreements, among the largest in enhanced-rock-weathering history., Secured Google's largest-ever single carbon-dioxide-removal purchase (about 200,000 tons).

## Career timeline

- **2020** — Co-founded The Farmlink Project during the COVID-19 pandemic with fellow student Aidan Reilly, linking farms with surplus produce to food banks.
- **2021** — Received the Congressional Medal of Honor Society's Citizen Honors award for pandemic food-relief work.
- **2022** — Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 (Social Impact); received a Jefferson Award for Public Service. Enrolled in Stanford's 'Hacking for Climate and Sustainability' course, where Terradot was born.
- **2022** — Co-founded Terradot out of Stanford's soil biogeochemistry lab with Sasankh Munukutla and Professor Scott Fendorf, focused on enhanced rock weathering.
- **2024** — Publicly launched Terradot with $58.2M in funding, including a $54M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins.
- **2025** — Opened Terradot's first carbon-removal hub in Brazil; signed a 12,000-ton CDR deal with Microsoft.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Terradot and raised $58.2M including a $54M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins.
- Signed nearly 300,000 tons of carbon-removal agreements, among the largest in enhanced-rock-weathering history.
- Secured Google's largest-ever single carbon-dioxide-removal purchase (about 200,000 tons).
- Closed a roughly $27M, 90,000-ton purchase with Frontier (the Stripe-led buyers' coalition).
- Co-founded The Farmlink Project, which has rescued over 130 million pounds of surplus food.
- Congressional Medal of Honor Society Citizen Honors recipient (2021).
- Forbes 30 Under 30, Social Impact (2022).
- Jefferson Award for Public Service (2022).

## Latest updates

- **2024-12** — Terradot launches publicly with $58.2M in funding and landmark carbon-removal deals.
- **2025-01** — Terradot opens its first enhanced-rock-weathering carbon-removal hub in Brazil.
- **2025-04** — Terradot signs a 12,000-ton carbon-removal deal with Microsoft to advance ERW science.

## Links

- Website: https://terradot.earth
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/james-kanoff-513202143
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMVRjulSgjY

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Last updated: 2026-06-12