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NCX
Carbon offsetting marketplace
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Marketplace
- Sustainability
- Social Impact
- Pacific Heights, San Francisco, CA
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Company mission
To connect corporations to the landowners, habitats, and communities they impact through their carbon marketplace.
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Xav Kearney
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On the back of multi-billion dollar commitments from some of the world's biggest companies such as Microsoft and Royal Dutch Shell to decarbonize their businesses, NCX is aiming to connect every American landowner to net-zero pioneers.
A competitor to companies like Pachama, NCX partners with Microsoft's AI for Earth program creating Basemap which provides data for a holistic view of all the forest assets in the US. NCX's exchange platform offers landowners the opportunity to make money from keeping their trees rather than cutting them down.
NCX is creating a sustainable and attractive market for essential ecosystem restoration, precision forestry, and landscape regeneration. It does this through the purchase of carbon credits via its carbon marketplace - with benefits to landowners, corporations, and the sustainability of the earth.
Benefits
- Company retreats
- Book club
- Home office fund
- Local co-working space
- Team lunches and happy hours delivered from your favorite restaurants
- 20 days of vacation: yours from Day 1
Company values
- Trust - Our #1 value at NCX is Trust. The emerging nature-positive economy is confusing. We cut through the noise and help landowners understand the pros and cons of different programs, so they can find the right one for them and their land
- Execution - We’re a team that gets stuff done. Everyone is here because they believe in the mission. We value what works and know that good ideas can come from anywhere in the company. And yes, “Getting Things Done” is required reading around here
- Exploration - We cannot solve the planet’s problems with the same thinking used to create them. We’re looking for people who share our good-spirited frustration with the way things are, as well as our passion for making things better. We ask the hard questions and relish the challenging answers
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2022
$50m
SERIES B
Jun 2021
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $74.4m
This company has top investors
Founders
Max Nova
(Co-founder & COO)Previously President at Yale Entrepreneurial Society for 1 year, Founder and CEO at AccuScholar also for 1 year and Web Developer & Researcher at Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies for 8 months.
Zack Parisa
(Co-founder)Earned a Master of Forest Science from Yale School of the Environment and a Bachelor's degree in Forest Resources Management from Mississippi State University.
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Career progression (1)
Meaningful work (1)
Supportive management (1)
Within 2 months of joining NCX my manager and I were already talking about where I'd like to see myself in the company within the next year. We worked from there to get me on projects to help support those goals.
People, HR, Recruitment
Career progression
Oct 2021
It's hard to find work more meaningful than helping fight climate change. NCX is disrupting the carbon credit industry and democratizing access to participate in a carbon offset program.
People, HR, Recruitment
Meaningful work
Oct 2021
Management across the board is supportive of career development, learning opportunities, and employee well being. They ask for feedback and take action on what they hear.
People, HR, Recruitment
Supportive management
Oct 2021