Thanks to Garden Grant co-funders
@sparkclimate.bsky.social sky.social and @granthamcsf.bsky.social, and to Quadrature Climate Foundation for making this possible through programmatic and regranting support.

By facilitating collaborative identification of problems that connect researchers to funding we're accelerating research in climate biotech.

This marks the execution of our first true Roadmap-Ignite-Fund-Synthesize (RIFS) cycle and the results exceeded our expectations. Our funding hypothesis was simple: surfacing important problems would be mutually reinforcing to funding solutions.

This marks the execution of our first true Roadmap-Ignite-Fund-Synthesize (RIFS) cycle and the results exceeded our expectations. Our funding hypothesis was simple: surfacing important problems would be mutually reinforcing to funding solutions.

Curious about the climate solutions researchers are aiming to address?
Check out the 50+ public problem statements on experiment.com/programs/gar....

Garden Grants addresses both issues by spotlighting the most urgent challenges and supporting the bold approaches researchers propose to solve them.

Why share problems openly?
Homeworld identified two critical gaps in the climate biotech space: risk-tolerant funding and limited interaction and collaboration among teams.

By sharing the problems transparently (while keeping proposed solutions confidential), we aim to foster cross-pollination of ideas, stimulate community discourse, and attract philanthropic funding into climate biotech.

These problem statements pinpoint what researchers believe are the most critical challenges that biotech can solve in greenhouse gas removal.

If you have any questions or want to get involved, please email hello@homeworld.bio

Read the blog post and report here: www.homeworld.bio/blog/the-uni...

◾️Want to help shape this? We’re deciding whether to extend this AI-based TEA tool more generally. If you think a low-cost, AI-driven TEA can speed up your biotech journey, please let us know. Your feedback will guide us on whether to invest more resources into making this tool widely accessible.

◾️Where are we now? We’ve wrapped up our prototype stage (read the report in our latest blog post) and are shifting our focus to biomining. Jesse and Jayme are spearheading a new TEA product specifically for biomining, and we’ll roll out a usable version soon.

At Homeworld, we have been prototyping an AI-driven TEA tool in order to help biotechnologists map their ideas to deployments.

◾️Why use AI? Currently, it costs $5k-$10k to even get a basic model started, but AI can deliver a solid starting point for a fraction of that.

For more problem statements in biological GHGR, check out our problem statement repository: (homeworld.bio/research/pro...).

Solving these challenges would unlock new approaches to biologically-enhanced enhanced rock weathering, potentially making it a more scalable, efficient, and cost-effective method for atmospheric carbon dioxide removal.

Characterizing the soil microbiocal functions that drive mineral dissolution homeworld.pubpub.org/pub/function...

A need for high-throughput platforms to efficiently measure microbe-mineral interactions homeworld.pubpub.org/pub/high-thr...

Lack of systematic measurement of microbial weathering activity homeworld.pubpub.org/pub/systemat...