[company_age]5.0[/company_age][employees]1-10 employees[/employees][funding]pre_seed[/funding][description]Mars Materials is a public benefit corporation (PBC) founded in 2021 with the mission to reverse humanity's industrial waste carbon footprint. The company aims to achieve this by commercializing technology developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) that produces low-cost, low-carbon acrylonitrile (AN) using captured-CO₂ and bio-based feedstocks. AN is a building block to carbon fiber, which is used in hundreds of products today. By using AN as a precursor for carbon fiber, Mars can actualize its vision of decarbonizing carbon-intensive industries such as steel and aluminum production.

Mars Materials is unique in its focus on carbon utilization and its commitment to impact. The company is driven by a team of passionate climate solutionists with backgrounds in chemical engineering, research, and cleantech commercialization. They believe that polluting carbon should be more costly than using their technologies, and they are working to create a future where this is the case.

Mars Materials is currently in the pre-seed funding stage and has raised $660k in an oversubscribed round. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas, and has a small team of employees. They are actively recruiting for a Process Engineer I position.[/description][ps]Low-cost, low-carbon acrylonitrile (AN) using captured-CO₂ and bio-based feedstocks[/ps]