en.Wedoany.com Reported - Terraxy has secured $3 million in seed funding to accelerate the commercial deployment of its soil regeneration and desert greening operations in Saudi Arabia.

This Seed-2 round was led by Wa'ed Ventures, the local venture capital arm of Saudi Aramco, with participation from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

Terraxy plans to use the funds to transition from pilot development to industrial-scale deployment across Saudi Arabia. The company intends to build a 30,000-square-meter commercial facility in Al Zulfi.

Agriculture, landscaping, and large-scale greening efforts in Saudi Arabia are largely constrained by sandy soils, which cannot effectively retain moisture and nutrients. To address this, Terraxy has developed a proprietary soil amendment called Carbosoil, which can increase plant growth and yield by up to 70% with regular water and nutrient inputs.

Carbosoil improves soil while also removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. According to its developers, Carbosoil can store carbon dioxide stably for hundreds of years.

Terraxy has validated Carbosoil through pilot production and partnerships with industry players, marking the technology's progression from laboratory research to pilot scale and toward commercial deployment. The company stated that this progress was supported by KAUST's research infrastructure and the National Transformation Institute (NTI).

Dr. Ian Campbell, Senior Vice President of NTI representing KAUST, stated that Carbosoil is a key component of soil improvement, helping to achieve the ambitious goals of the Saudi Green Initiative and driving the development of the carbon credit economy.

Carbosoil has also been tested in the regulatory sandbox of Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture (MEWA), which allows for the testing and validation of novel climate technologies under real-world conditions. H.E. Dr. Abdulaziz Almalik, Deputy Minister for Research and Innovation at MEWA, stated that soil health is fundamental to the Kingdom's goals for food security, water efficiency, and land restoration. Through the regulatory sandbox, the Ministry is helping Saudi-developed technologies complete their environmental and product validation pathways while accelerating their deployment and market adoption. He added that Terraxy is a key example of how innovation, regulation, and investment can come together to address national priorities and scale promising solutions.

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