NOAH MCQUEEN
Age: 26 • Cofounder, Heirloom
Here’s a cool idea: Use hot rocks to fight global warming. Heirloom superheats limestone to extract its CO2 and stores the gas far underground. The treated mineral then acts like a wrung-out sponge, reabsorbing greenhouse gases from the air. “We give rocks superpowers to scrub CO2 out of our atmosphere,” says McQueen, who earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. McQueen and cofounder Shashank Samala have raised a $53 million round and signed carbon offset deals with tech giants Microsoft, Stripe and Shopify. Rana Abdelhamid, 29
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