Student Entrepreneurs Aim to Capture Carbon Emissions and a Shark Tank Win
January 23, 2024
Concerns about global warming gnawed regularly at Aryan Gurusamy, but they kicked into high gear as high school graduation approached last June, and plumes of acrid gray smoke from Canadian wildfires cloaked the Northeast.
“I kept thinking, what can I do to help address climate change?” he said.
By fall, as a first-year student at Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick, Gurusamy had come up with a concept for removing carbon dioxide from the central ventilation systems at schools. He shared the idea with fellow first-year business school student Atharva Kulkarni, his friend from Montgomery High School. The startup CarbonX took root.