Terraxy
About
Spinout/startup advancing engineered biochar (branded CarboSoil) and other soil technologies to restore desert soils and enable carbon-negative land restoration.
Founders
Prof. Himanshu Mishra
Co-founder
Anas Algahtani
CEO
Ahmad O. Al-Khowaiter
Executive Vice President of Technology & Innovation; Chairman, Wa'ed Investment Committee
Dr. Ian Campbell OBE
Senior Vice President, National Transformation Institute (NTI)
H.E. Dr. Abdulaziz Almalik
Deputy Minister for Research & Innovation
Recent News
Terraxy Raises $3 Million to Scale Desert Greening and Soil Regeneration Technology in Saudi Arabia
Terraxy, a KAUST spinout, raised $3 million in a Seed-2 round led by Wa'ed Ventures to scale production of its soil-regeneration product, Carbosoil, and build a 30,000-sq-m commercial facility in Al Zulfi, Saudi Arabia. The funding supports moving from pilot to industrial deployment, targeting sandy degraded soils and durable carbon storage.
Saudi Arabia’s new soil technologies offer breakthrough in desert restoration
KAUST researchers, led by Prof. Himanshu Mishra (co-founder of Terraxy), developed engineered soil technologies such as CarboSoil and SandX that improve nutrient retention and water efficiency to enable carbon-negative desert restoration.