Standout of the week
Sustaera
Durham climate-tech company building direct air capture systems for carbon removal.
CTO and co-founder Cory Sanderson discussed direct air capture costs and carbon-credit demand on Founder Shares.
The episode, hosted by Trevor Schmidt on Hutchison PLLC's Founder Shares podcast, is titled "How a Durham Founder Is Making Carbon Removal Cheaper, Simpler, and Ready to Scale." Sustaera is an existing directory company whose $10M Series A was recorded on 2026-07-25. The signal here is the appearance and the demand-side framing, not new funding. Triangle Startups did not listen to the episode; the claims above trace to the episode listing and to Adam's own account of it.
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