Welcome to Mantra Venture Group

Bridging the gap between innovation and investment

Mantra Venture Group facilitates investment in sustainable, commercially viable technologies.

Our role at Mantra is to bridge the gap between innovation and investment. By aggressively seeking out clean tech innovations and renewable energy solutions, Mantra aims to connect investors with exciting opportunities that meet today’s global environmental challenges.

Mantra has acquired the intellectual property (patent application) for an alternative to carbon capture and storage, the CO2 Converter, a process that converts carbon dioxide into a fuel. Mantra has also secured an exclusive option to Signal Smoothing, a technology that can convert power from variable sources (ie. wind and solar) into grid standard. Mantra continues to investigate opportunities in cellulosic ethanol, bio-gas from biomass, and clean coal technology.

At Mantra, we are committed to developing and commercializing technologies that support a greener economy, meeting the needs of the present without compromising the future.

We invite you to explore the opportunities

"Think Green. Think Investment. Think Opportunity." 

ERC - Carbon Conversion

Mantra has acquired the intellectual property (patent-applied-for process) for a process developed at the University of British Columbia that converts carbon dioxide (CO2) into useful products. This process, named ERC (electro-reduction of carbon dioxide), takes carbon dioxide and water, combined with electricity, to produce fuels and chemicals such as formic acid, formates and oxygen.

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and a main contributor to climate change . Today one quarter of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions are released from the burning of Fossil Fuels in stationary coal-fired power plants. As of yet, large scale applications have not been able to make the shift to renewable energy as fossil fuels remain the most cost effective option energy source available. Scientists and innovators are therefore looking at methods to deal with the CO2 released so that it doesn’t enter our atmosphere. These methods currently include capturing the gas and injecting it underground for storage in a process called carbon sequestration. However, as of yet, a full carbon capture and storage system for large-scale power plants is also not a cost effective option.

The ERC process offers an innovative alternative to carbon sequestration with many potential advantages. The first advantage is that the ERC, instead of addressing carbon dioxide as the problem, harnesses its chemical properties as part of the solution. Capitalizing on the abundance of carbon dioxide being released from fossil fuel combustion the ERC converts CO2 to useful, financially profitable products. The second advantage is that the process is driven by electric energy that can be taken from an electric power grid supplied by hydro, wind, solar, tidal or nuclear energy. Lastly, there is potential for this technology to be applied in a closed-loop fuel cell cycle, whereby carbon dioxide is converted into a fuel that is then used in a fuel cell to generate energy. Our company sees the potential of the ERC as a step towards mitigating climate change.

The value of the carbon dioxide market is currently in the US$ billions annually. The state of this evolving market is indicated by the large industry participants (including British Petroleum and General Electric) who are building energy production gasification plants aimed to capture and sequester over 400 million tons of carbon dioxide in a single year, while Carbon Credits are traded at values up to US$30 per ton of CO2.

Signal Smoothing

Harnessing the power of the wind and the sun.

Mantra has secured an exclusive option to a new technology developed at the University of Toronto that can take power developed from variable sources (e.g. wind farms, tidal, etc.) and converts that power source into “grid standard”. This technology is not new but the ability to drive the technology at 1-3% savings in efficiency is. Over the life of an installation these savings will be substantial. The other potential uses of this product have not yet been quantified.

The ecoENERGY Renewable Initiative was announced in January of 2007. This is a $1.5 billion investment to put 4,000 megawatts of clean energy on the grid—energy from tides, the sun, Biomass , small hydro, and wind.

Signal Smoothing provides a substatial 1-3% savings in efficiency.

The "grid" describes the system of wires and pipelines that carry energy, in the form of electricity or Natural Gas , to our homes and businesses. Currently 85% of our greenhouse gas emissions come from energy production and use, the majority of which uses the grid to funnel energy to our homes, offices and industries. Converting the grid system to be more reliant on renewable energy sources for power is one key step towards creating a sustainable energy market.

Investment in the renewable energy market is rising rapidly. A report in 2007 from Solarbuzz, a Solar Energy consultancy, states that the photovoltaic (PV) industry generated $17.2 billion in global revenues in 2007. Worldwide solar installations have a reached a high of 2,826MW, representing a 62% growth over 2006. As far as wind power is concerned, in 2007, the U.S. wind energy industry installed 5,244 megawatts (MW), expanding the nation’s total wind power Generating Capacity by 45% over 2006 and injecting an investment of over $9 billion into the economy. It is not unlikely that the U.S. will see an increase of 16,000 wind turbines per year with a value of approximately $22 billion.

Larry Kristof - President & CEO

Dennis Petke - CFO

Research & Development

John Russell - VP of Technology Evaluation, Mantra Venture Group

Norman Chow, P.Eng, - President, Director, Industrial Process, Kemetco Research Inc. 

Joey Jung, P.Eng, - Research Engineer, Kemetco Research Inc.

Other Team Members

Cynthia Fei - Creative Director

Kol Henrikson - Corporate Communications

Jonathan Paluch - IT Specialist

Kelly Kristof - Executive Administrator

Michael Heid - Manager, Systems Development

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