LanzaTech was originally founded in 2005 in New Zealand. The company’s gas fermentation platform disrupts the current highly centralized global energy system by enabling the regional production of low-cost energy from local wastes and residues, including gases as varied as industrial flue gas, gasified biomass wastes and residues, biogas, and high-CO₂ stranded natural gas. The proprietary gas-to-liquid platform produces fuels and high-value chemicals, such as 2,3-butanediol (2,3 BDO) and acetic acid, from a variety of waste gas resources. LanzaTech’s biological microbes can utilize the lowest-cost, most readily available gas resources, including: waste industrial flue gases from steel mills, processing plants and refineries; syngas generated from any biomass resource (such as municipal bio-waste, organic industrial waste, and agricultural waste); coal derived syngas; and reformed natural gas.