News and Updates

It’s been lovely to head back to the IBioIC annual conference and meet with many of our close collaborators and friends within the biotech world.

Getting feedback and input from those that have ‘been there and done that’ is always invaluable and part of our strategy for moving so far so fast. This conference allows us to speak with many people we admire and we appreciate their support. The theme of this year's conference is collaboration!

We’ve been nominated for the Earthshot Price by Carbon 13 and could not be happier! Inventing the future of fats and oils is often not especially glamorous, with a whole lot of very hard work behind the scenes to make progress so this feels very, very special. We’re crossing all of our fingers and toes for making it to the finals.

It’s lovely to have been recognised as a Future of Food finalist. The team was really proud and we lost out to another great startup, Nice Rice, who are shaking up the rice industry and helping Indian farmers at the same time - very worthy winners!

We’re working with a fantastic company called Fermtech who produce Koji cocoa, which acts as a replacement for cocoa. We are testing brownies baked with our oil, to partially replace butter, and their Koji cocoa, to partially replace the cocoa, to see how they taste and what carbon savings that brings. Watch this space for the results!

Having the chance to revisit the Carbon13 team and see the latest cohorts of startups in London and Berlin was a real pleasure.

For us it offered a lovely reflection point to realise just how far we’ve come in only 2.5 years. And also great to see the new up and coming ventures rolling out of Carbon 13. Best of luck to all the new ventures.

Visiting SCS Formulate for the first time was a great chance to meet many connections and partners face to face for the first time.

Interest in our cocoa butter alternative and Melior oil was very strong and has led to many good conversations. It felt like THE place to get started in the cosmetics industry. We look forward to seeing where the many new relationships go that we have developed.