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BIOSORRA is a climate technology company headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, with primary East African operations in Murang'a, Kenya, that develops patented pyrolysis technology to transform tropical commodity and crop waste into agricultural biochar. The organization provides this biochar to smallholder farmers as a sustainable soil amendment, which increases crop yields by up to 200 percent and reduces agricultural water requirements by 30 percent. Operating a dual revenue model, the enterprise sells its biochar products directly to local agricultural communities while simultaneously generating verified carbon dioxide removal credits for corporate buyers. The company has secured $3.5 million in funding to scale its industrial facilities, creating over 15 green jobs and supplying biochar to more than 2,000 farmers and agribusinesses such as Kenya Nut Company. BIOSORRA was founded in 2022 by co-founders Inés Serra Baucells and Carla.
BIOSORRA has raised $340K across 1 funding round.
BIOSORRA has raised $340K in total across 1 funding round.
BIOSORRA has raised $340K across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $340K Seed in January 2022.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 2022 | $340K Seed | — | Kevin Hartz, BlueRun Ventures, Clearstone, Composite Ventures, Founders Fund, Michael Moritz, Scott Banister | Announced |
BIOSORRA has raised $340K in total across 1 funding round.
BIOSORRA's investors include Kevin Hartz, BlueRun Ventures, Clearstone, Composite Ventures, Founders Fund, Michael Moritz, Scott Banister.
BIOSORRA is a female-led cleantech startup based in Nairobi, Kenya, specializing in biochar technology to enable carbon removal, enhance soil health, and boost crop yields for smallholder farmers in the Global South.[1][2][3] It transforms agricultural waste into Biochar Bora, a patented biofertilizer that sequesters CO2 durably in soils, reduces irrigation needs, restores fertility, and increases yields by up to 27-200% while cutting farmer costs—addressing climate injustice, food insecurity, and poverty.[1][2][5] Serving underserved farming communities, BIOSORRA creates green jobs, promotes circular economies, and generates carbon credits for corporate offsets, with early traction including operations impacting over 2,000 farmers and 15+ jobs in Kenya.[2][4]
Founded in 2022 by Inés Serra Baucells (CEO, passion-driven entrepreneur) and Carla Escobedo Jalife (project lead), BIOSORRA emerged from their firsthand observations in Kenya, where they witnessed climate change devastating crops and vast crop waste being burned—fueling slash-and-burn practices that degrade land.[2][3][4][5] With a team blending engineering, sustainability, science, business, and farming expertise (over 50 years combined), plus Kenyan operations lead Purity Chomba, they developed patented pyrolysis tech to convert waste into biochar, piloting in Murang'a County and scaling to Kenya's largest industrial biochar facility.[1][3][4] Pivotal early wins included MIT Solve Climate recognition, $335K pre-seed funding from Respond Accelerator, Musk Foundation, and others, and XPRIZE Carbon Removal awards (Top 100, Student Competition $5M winners).[2][3][5]
BIOSORRA rides the carbon removal and regenerative agriculture wave, targeting gigaton-scale CDR amid rising corporate net-zero mandates and Africa's doubling population by 2050, which amplifies food insecurity risks from land degradation and slash-and-burn farming.[3][5][6] Timing aligns with global biochar demand in cleantech, leveraging abundant tropical waste in the Global South where 60% of Kenyans farm (26% GDP contribution) amid 26% malnutrition rates—countering climate injustice via accessible, carbon-negative solutions.[1][5] It influences the ecosystem by pioneering EcoVillage models, green jobs for women/rural areas, and scalable CDR credits, bridging agtech, climate tech, and poverty alleviation while shifting smallholders to sustainable practices.[4][6]
BIOSORRA is poised for continental expansion in Africa, launching new products like biochar for construction, ramping to megatonne CO2 removal capacity, and creating thousands more green jobs while hitting 10M farmer impact.[1][2][4] Rising CDR regulations, biochar standards growth, and agtech funding will propel it, evolving from Kenya pilot to Global South leader in equitable climate tech. This female-led innovator, born from on-the-ground urgency, exemplifies how waste-to-wealth biochar unlocks resilience for vulnerable farmers at climate scale.[1][3]
