Leather is one of the most versatile, durable, and desirable materials in fashion. No animal-free replacement has been able to meet the top performance specs, until Gozen.

General Sense is building the chemical sensing layer for artificial intelligence. The company’s Nose-Computer Interface (NCI) reads neural signals directly from a dog’s olfactory bulb — the point where raw molecular information converges in the brain — and translates them into digital data in real time. This is not a better detection dog; it is […]

Cauldron is unlocking the future of food, feed and fibre at a global scale. As the world grapples with a growing need for protein, and faces environmental challenges such as climate change, the need for planet-friendly foods and ingredients, animal feeds, and medicines, will be crucial to humanity’s need to survive. Precision fermentation holds the […]

An excerpt from Arvind Gupta’s “Five Insights from investing in Prolific Machines”: The heart of Prolific Machines’ approach to reinventing the assembly line for food is rooted in identifying the most expensive drivers of cell culture. Cost analysis shows that by weight, growth factors are by far the most expensive part of growing food – […]

Tidal Vision is the only commercial scale US-based manufacturer of chitosan, a non-toxic, non-hazmat, biodegradable and market-proven industrial biopolymer extracted from crab shells. Tidal Vision’s zero-waste chitosan extraction process produces by far the most consistent quality and lowest cost chitosan in the industry. Tidal Vision converts chitosan from different into ready-to-use formulas that are optimized […]

At least 1.7 billion people worldwide rely on contaminated drinking water, resulting in over 500,000 deaths per year. Concerningly, bacteria have grown resistant to standard water treatment chemicals like chlorine, which can no longer kill slimes (“biofilms”) that protect harmful bacteria and fungi and attach them to surfaces in our water infrastructure.  Aequor discovered marine […]

AlkaLi Labs is working on a biological platform for the extraction of valuable minerals from unconventional water sources such as oilfield brine waste streams.

Why we invested: The message from the market is crystal clear: electric vehicles need to be cheaper. Since up to 40% of an electric vehicle is the battery, and in turn 70% of the cost of the battery is in materials, it’s an imperative for the industry to develop cheaper and higher performing materials. Silicon […]

“Natural ingredients is the fastest growing segment in food, personal care, and health-&-wellness industry, but large companies can’t find reliable scalable supplies. For example, in 2016 there was an acute shortage of natural citrus ingredients because of citrus greening disease. Just the year before, prices of natural vanilla increased 10X due to low supply and […]

Biofermentation is often done in batches, because the cells (bacteria, yeast, etc.) that produce the product of interest will eventually mutate and cause the entire batch to become unproductive. This is why batches have to restart, undergoing an idle period, which costs time and money in labor and lost productivity. Asimica’s solution to this problem […]