CURA Climate Inc. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) announced $10 million USD in financing. Led by Zacua Ventures (San Francisco, CA), with participation from Sandpiper Ventures (Halifax, Nova Scotia), Amplify Capital (Toronto, Ontario), and Vantage Futures (New York, NY), the financing will accelerate CURA’s path from pilot to commercial deployment, while advancing its mission of increasing the sector’s productivity and resilience.
Proceeds from the financing will support the build and commissioning of CURA’s 100 tons per year pilot plant in Taber, Alberta, developed in partnership with Grand Forks Concrete Ltd. (Lethbridge, Alberta). The funding will also advance engineering design for CURA’s first 30,000-ton-per-year commercial demonstration facility and support the expansion of CURA’s technical and business teams.
“We’ve made significant progress proving and scaling CURA’s electrochemical technology, and this financing allows us to move into the next phase,” said Erin Bobicki, co-founder and CEO of CURA. “Our focus now is on demonstrating that electrifying the core chemical step in cement production can deliver the performance, scale, and economics the industry needs. We’re building technology that integrates with existing operations while reducing energy consumption, increasing productivity, and strengthening both industrial and supply-chain resilience.”
Cement is foundational to modern life. More than 4.5 billion tons are produced globally each year in the concrete needed to build the homes, roads, hospitals, and schools the world needs. But cement production is also responsible for approximately 8% of global CO₂ emissions, including process emissions inherent to the decomposition of limestone.
By replacing the most carbon-intensive part of cement production with an electrified process that uses renewable power instead of high-temperature combustion, CURA’s technology can reduce cement emissions by up to 85%. The technology produces a concentrated CO₂ stream and a low-carbon calcium product while reducing energy use and improving plant productivity, giving producers a practical, scalable way to cut emissions while seamlessly integrating with existing cement and lime production infrastructure.
The system is developed to work with a wide range of calcium-rich feedstocks, including lower-purity limestone and industrial waste streams, enabling deployment across diverse regions and production environments.
Demand for low-carbon building materials is rising alongside growing pressures for higher productivity and greater industrial and supply-chain resilience across the construction, infrastructure, and cement sectors. CURA is working with cement producers, construction companies, and industrial partners to demonstrate how electrifying cement’s core chemical process can reduce emissions, lower energy use, and improve operational performance, providing a practical, scalable path forward for the industry.
“Cement has been made the same way for most of modern history, and for good reason. Changing how you produce something this fundamental, at this scale, carries consequences that most industries never have to think about. There is no sandbox, no beta test, no easy rollback,” said Juan Nieto, founding partner at Zacua Ventures. “Our team has spent years embedded within CURA’s future clients. We know how they evaluate risk, how they make procurement decisions, and what it takes to earn their trust. CURA understands that reality deeply, and it shows in how they have approached building this technology.”
CURA’s approach is designed to help cement producers reduce emissions while improving productivity and strengthening resilience without requiring entirely new feedstocks or replacement building materials. By capturing carbon before the kiln, the company is focused on integrating low-carbon production into the existing cement value chain. CURA has partnered across the built environment supply chain with MOUs signed with multinationals like ACCIONA, S.A. (Alcobendas, Spain), Aecon Group Inc. (Toronto, Ontario), Titan Cement International S.A. (Brussels, Belgium), and others.
“This isn’t just about decarbonizing cement: it’s about modernizing the industry so producers can do more with less,” added Bobicki. “The world will continue to rely on cement to build resilient infrastructure. Our goal is to help producers make that cement with far lower emissions, lower energy use, and less reliance on fossil fuels.”