# Noya

> Noya was an Oakland direct air capture startup that moved from retrofitting cooling towers to building modular, all-electric capture units near geologic storage. Corporate buyers backed future removal and investors supplied $11 million in Series A capital. Cofounder Josh Santos announced that the company was winding down in August 2025.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** Oakland, United States
- **Founders:** Josh Santos (Co-founder and CEO), Daniel Cavero (Co-founder and CTO)
- **Products:** Cooling tower direct air capture concept, Modular direct air capture system, Future carbon removal credits
- **Notable:** Participated in Y Combinator Winter 2021., Raised an $11 million Series A in April 2023., Named an XPRIZE Carbon Removal Phase 2 Top 100 team.

## Products & services

- **Cooling tower direct air capture concept** — Original approach to use airflow from existing industrial cooling towers to capture ambient CO₂; superseded by the modular strategy.
- **Modular direct air capture system** — All-electric units using activated-carbon monoliths and solid sorbents; direct electrical heating releases captured CO₂ for planned geologic storage.
- **Future carbon removal credits** — Advance sales of planned, auditable direct air capture and storage removals to corporate buyers.

## Achievements

- Participated in Y Combinator Winter 2021.
- Raised an $11 million Series A in April 2023.
- Named an XPRIZE Carbon Removal Phase 2 Top 100 team.
- Received approval for a $996,822 California Energy Commission sorbent research grant in April 2025.
- Cofounder Josh Santos announced the company was winding down in August 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2025-08** — Josh Santos announced that he and Daniel Cavero had decided to wind down Noya operations.
- **2025-06** — California environmental filing described a bench-scale sorbent project with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
- **2025-04** — California Energy Commission approved a $996,822 research grant to improve amine sorbent performance.

## Links

- Website: https://www.noya.co
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/noya-carbon
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/noya_carbon

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Last updated: 2026-09-29