Twelve is a chemical company built for the climate era. Its breakthrough technology eliminates emissions by turning CO2 into essential products. The company calls it carbon transformation.
Reinventing what it means to be a chemical company, Twelve is on a mission to create a climate-positive world and a fossil-free future.
Twelve, formerly known as Opus 12, was born from breakthrough discoveries by Dr. Etosha Cave and Dr. Kendra Kuhl at the world-renowned Jaramillo Group at Stanford University, a recognized world leader in CO2 electrocatalysis. There, they developed Twelve's carbon transformation technology.
In 2015, Dr. Cave and Dr. Kuhl were ready to take their fundamental discoveries from the lab and translate them into a commercial solution to revolutionize the way we reduce emissions by making the world's most critical chemicals from CO2 instead of fossil fuels. They co-founded Twelve with fellow Stanford graduate and cleantech entrepreneur, Nicholas Flanders.
Twelve is a growing team of electrochemists, material scientists, and engineers with cutting-edge expertise in the field of CO2 electrocatalysis and electrochemical reactor design, scouted from the best programs in the world. It partners with industry leaders to implement its carbon transformation technology at scale. With its own purpose-built R&D facilities and access to the world-class resources of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, the company has the tools and partnerships to scale its solution.