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Watt It Takes
with Shashank Samala

Heirloom is a hybrid direct air capture (DAC) and carbon mineralization company that uses limestone, an abundant and cheap mineral, as a sponge to pull carbon from the atmosphere. While limestone’s natural carbon mineralization timeline can take years, Heirloom aims to accelerate this process to just three days, with a goal of removing a gigaton of excess carbon from the atmosphere.

 
 
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Sponsored By

 
 
 
 
 
 
Shashank Samala

Co-founder & CEO
Heirloom
 
 
 

Shashank Samala is Co-Founder and CEO at Heirloom. He grew up in southeast India where he saw first-hand impacts of climate change on some of the world’s most vulnerable people.

Shashank was previously Entrepreneur in Residence at Carbon180, a leading climate policy NGO working on atmospheric carbon removal, and a founder at Tempo, which builds mission critical electronics for surgical robots, satellites, rockets and more. Shashank previously worked at Square and has his Bachelors of Science from Cornell University.
 
 
 
“If you want to be removing billions of tons [of carbon], you need a sponge to remove that carbon that is incredibly abundant. There's trillions of tons of limestone in the earth's crust. I often want to be running to the rooftops and yell to the world, ‘Hey, we got this stuff that is incredibly abundant and cheap and scalable’. And why wouldn't we want to be scaling this thing as large as we possibly could?”

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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