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Energy abundance for the betterment of humanity.

Spiritus is a direct air capture company built to solve the problem that has stalled numerous DAC technologies: cost. We deliver CO2 at prices that work in the field, not just on a spreadsheet. That starts with enhanced oil recovery, the largest proven use of CO2 in the world, and the fastest path to scaling DAC beyond pilot projects. There are an estimated 70 billion barrels of U.S. oil recoverable with CO2 injection, 40 billion of them in the Permian Basin alone. Less than one percent of that prize has been unlocked to date. The constraint was never geology. It was access to affordable CO2. Spiritus closes that gap, delivering captured CO2 at a cost structure that, combined with the 45Q tax credit, makes the economics work for operators today. The only thing standing in the way of abundant, low-carbon energy in the US is CO2. Spiritus solves that problem by bringing new, affordable CO2 supply to the basins and oil patches that need it most.

Meet with us at Climate Week NYC

September 20-27, 2026

New York, NY

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Leadership

Charles Cadieu, PhD

Co-Founder / CEO

Founder, CEO - Caption Health

  • Acquired by GE HealthCare

  • AI ultrasound

  • TIME 100 Best Inventions

Founder - IQ Engines

  • Acquired by Yahoo!

  • AI image understanding

AI PhD, Berkeley

Matt Lee, PhD

Co-Founder / CTO

Group Leader

Los Alamos National Lab

  • Inventor of our breakthrough sorbent material

  • Created fusion targets that achieved ignition for LNL

  • Material deployments in large-scale national defense

PhD ChemE, UC Irvine

Dan Opila, PhD

Chief Architect

Professor US Naval Academy

  • Naval-scale energy systems

Senior R&D Eng. at GE Renewable Energy

  • Over 2GW of installed solar inverters

50 patents and publications

PhD, Michigan

James Burbridge

Director of Business Development

Led the North America Advisory team at Carbon Direct advising major carbon removal buyers

Designed the XPRIZE Carbon Removal and operated the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE

MBA, Rotterdam

Roman Wolff

EVP of Engineering

Eng Leader

Merichem, Origin Materials (ORGN), and TETRA Technologies (NYSE: TTI)

  • Led scale-up of seven process technologies in oil & gas at Merichem

  • Built the technical organization at Origin Materials from 3 engineers to 160 people in 2 years across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and EH&S

  • Drove $150M first-of-a-kind plant build and $1B+ scale up at Origin Materials

BS, MS, Chemical Engineering, University of Houston

Kip Hensley

Head of Project Development

VP of Technical Services

Brightmark

  • 30 projects developed, constructed, and put into operations

  • $400M+ of capital deployed

  • Led development and engineering teams spanning development, construction, and operations

BS Mechanical Engineering, UC San Diego
MBA, UC Berkeley

Our Investors

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The next decade of low-cost, on-site CO2 starts here.

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