What We Saw
Biogas producers use anaerobic digesters (AD) to divert waste from landfills and turn it into renewable energy, but the process is highly artisanal and inefficient. New tools could increase efficiency, enabling AD as a versatile platform for chemical and fuel manufacturing.
The Solution We Built
Alchemyca’s solution integrates advanced digital twins and biological catalysts for measurement and stimulation of biogas plants, making it easy for plant operators to improve system efficiency by up to 50 percent. This efficiency will eventually make organic waste a viable, low-cost feedstock for producing many versatile chemicals and fuels beyond renewable natural gas.
The Problem We Saw
Emerging contaminants ranging from the ‘forever chemicals’ to carcinogenic chemical byproducts have polluted our water, air and soils. Simultaneously, chemical and mechanical remediation technologies had seemingly plateaued, leaving industry and governments with few tools to address these acute pollutants.
The Solution We Built
Allonnia harnesses biotechnology in synergy with mechanical and chemical tools to tackle complex industrial pollutants. Launched with research leader Battelle and O&G major Suncor, Allonnia has developed bio-solutions spanning the full ‘Detect - Collect - Destroy’ pipeline for waste remediation against targets such as PFAS and dioxanes.
The Problem We Saw
Beauty brands struggled to meet new rising consumer values without sacrificing product performance. There was limited innovation in the ingredients they used, and a stark tradeoff between performance and sustainable positioning.
The Solution We Built
Arcaea approaches beauty through a biology first lens, bringing biotech-based ingredients and unique stories to brands and consumers. We partnered with entrepreneur and CEO, Jasmina Aganovic, as well as iconic bands (Chanel), innovative category disruptors (Olaplex) and sophisticated suppliers (Givaudan) to build Arcaea.
The Problem We Saw
The rise of science backed nutrition for health and wellness, as an alternative to prescription medicines, is a global megatrend. For millennia, we’ve turned to plants and herbs for health and healing, but we’re only beginning to map the universe of these bioactive molecules and micronutrients.
The Solution We Built
Ayana Bio integrates computational plant pathway discovery, synthetic biology, and plant cell culture to uncover and produce plant bioactives using sustainable production technology. Ayana can find, create, and scale complex molecules and molecular blends that have otherwise been locked away in plants with often challenging supply chains., former EVP of Innovation at Elanco.
The Problem We Saw
Livestock producers are urgently calling for new products to address antibiotic resistance and improve livestock sustainability. At the same time, the biotechnology tool stack had emerged to measure, understand and perturb the animal microbiome to drive health and productivity with more targeted solutions.
The Solution We Built
In partnership with Elanco, we developed BiomEdit, a company creating probiotics and microbial medicines for animal health. BiomEdit focuses on the greatest innovation needs in animal health, including medicated feed ingredients and therapeutics for livestock and pets. BiomEdit is led by CEO, Aaron Schacht, former EVP of Innovation at Elanco.
The Problem We Saw
Even as consumers called for new solutions across health areas such as weight loss, longevity, and mental health, consumer nutrition brands were ‘stuck’ with legacy probiotic strains discovered decades ago, with no ability to translate powerful advances in microbiome science into meaningful new ingredient palettes.
The Solution We Built
Verb Biotics is a ‘biotic’ ingredient developer leapfrogging incumbents with effective and purpose-designed probiotics. Verb drives toward deep understanding around the mechanism of action of its probiotics, designing a new wave of biotics with truly meaningful ‘feel the effect’ benefits.
What We Saw
Advances in electronics, data centers, electric vehicles, aerospace, and additive manufacturing are pushing polymers beyond their thermal, electrical, mechanical, and processing limits. Traditional petrochemical building blocks constrain material design, while many sustainable alternatives require customers to sacrifice performance. Biology opens a much larger set of chemical building blocks - and a path to materials designed around the exact demands of emerging technologies.
The Solution We Built
Pegasus Materials combines biology, chemistry, materials science, and machine learning to create high-performance polymers from bio-based building blocks. Its first materials target two acute customer needs: Virela-X001 enables smaller, more reliable electronic connectors through high flow, high heat resistance, and ultra-low moisture uptake; Virela-X002 brings near-isotropic strength and high-temperature performance to industrial 3D printing. The result is more design freedom and performance with less dependence on petrochemical inputs.
What We Saw
Functional mushrooms are moving rapidly from niche supplements into mainstream food and beverage, but the underlying ingredient supply remains inconsistent and under-standardized. Potency can vary widely, active compounds are often poorly characterized, and ingredients can create taste, color, solubility, or formulation challenges. Brands need clean-label mushroom ingredients that deliver consistent quality, credible science, and benefits consumers can actually understand.
The Solution We Built
Myka Pure is creating a new generation of functional mushroom ingredients using controlled fermentation, analytical standardization, and application-focused product development. Its ingredients are designed to stand out on purity, potency, consistency, and scalability, giving functional food, beverage, and nutrition brands better tools to create differentiated products for focus, energy, immunity, recovery, and everyday wellness.
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What We Saw
Food manufacturers still manage safety and quality largely reactively, relying on periodic testing and data scattered across disconnected systems. Those tools can confirm that a problem occurred, but they do little to show how contamination moves through a facility or help teams act before an incident. New biological tracers and AI can turn real-world operational data into a predictive layer for food safety, quality, and compliance.
The Solution We Built
Index Biosystems combines BioTags - food-grade, DNA-labeled tracers made from inactive baker's yeast - with Trailhead, an agentic AI platform built for food manufacturing. BioTags safely simulate contamination and generate high-resolution data about material movement without disrupting production. Trailhead connects that data with a manufacturer's existing records and systems, then deploys AI agents to monitor, analyze, and automate workflows - helping food companies reduce risk, improve operations, and move from reactive testing toward predictive food safety.
We have the capacity to create everything we need to flourish – from food to medicine to new materials. As we adapt biology with compassion and care, the future is waiting to be written.
Let’s grow a new world together.
We have the capacity to create everything we need to flourish – from food to medicine to new materials. As we adapt biology with compassion and care, the future is waiting to be written.
Let’s grow a new world together.
