Exclusive: Aerleum plans to turn CO2 directly into fuel for cargo ships and, eventually, airplanes

It only took four phone calls for Sébastien Fiedorow to quit his job as a venture capitalist. The first one came from Marble, a startup studio based in Paris. They had a scientist looking for help founding a company that would remove carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere — what experts call direct air capture, or DAC. “They approached the subject as being a DAC company, and I was like, ‘No, no way. I won’t go in that space,” Fiedorow told TechCrunch. “I didn’t want to invest in DAC.” But...