Dutch startup SeaO₂ has secured over €2 million in new funding to advance its technology for removing CO₂ from seawater.The funding will support SeaO₂'s goal of removing one megaton of CO₂ by 2030 and one gigaton by 2045.SeaO₂'s Direct Ocean Capture (DOC) technology extracts CO₂ from seawater and will be scaled up from prototype to pilot plant.The pilot plant, launching in summer 2025, is expected to have an annual capacity of 250 tons of CO₂.