Twelve

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.