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NCX

Carbon offsetting marketplace

21-100 employees
  • B2B
  • Marketplace
  • Sustainability
  • Social Impact
2443 Fillmore St. #380-1418 San Francisco, CA 94115

Company mission

To connect corporations to the landowners, habitats, and communities they impact through their carbon marketplace.

Top investors

64% employee growth in 12 months

Otta's take

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Xav Kearney

CTO of Otta

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

  • Team lunches and happy hours delivered from your favorite restaurants
  • Company retreats
  • 20 days of vacation: yours from Day 1
  • Book club
  • Home office fund
  • Local co-working space

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

$74.4m

Total funding

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.

Endorsements

All

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