Who we are

About Us 

LanzaTech was founded in early 2005 to develop, and commercialize proprietary technologies for the production of lowest cost fuel ethanol from the carbon monoxide in low-hydrogen waste gases produced by the steel industry.

During 2005 and 2006, the company raised funding through New Zealand-based Angel investors and secured grants.  

Through these funds the company was able to establish itself as a technology leader in this field. Thereafter the company attracted series A investment from an investor consortium led by Khosla Ventures, and expanded the focus of its process development program to include biomass-derived syngas (this contains elevated levels of hydrogen gas). Thus, our gas fermentation technology is being applied to enable the production of fuels from either industrial waste gas or biomass syngas.

Today the company employs a large team, has a strong, rapidly growing patent portfolio, and has adopted an aggressive stage-gated critical path through process piloting to commercialization. The company is now ready to undertake the next stage on this critical path, the pilot-scale demonstration of its fuel ethanol production from both biomass syngas and industrial waste gas feedstocks. A pilot plant design has been developed that will allow ethanol production from each of these feedstocks to be demonstrated at scale over the next 12 months.

"The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation."

Albert Einstein