Solugen (YC W17) — Decarbonizing the chemicals industry
Solugen is decarbonizing the chemistry of everyday life with enzymes and innovative metal catalysts. Our new to the world Bioforge platform technology can produce high value chemical goods that are biobased and carbon negative, at cost on par with current technologies.
Solugen is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2017 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Decarbonizing the chemicals industry. The founders listed are Sean Hunt (Founder/CTO), Gaurab Chakrabarti (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, November 8, 2016).
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Solugen is decarbonizing the chemistry of everyday life with enzymes and innovative metal catalysts. Our new to the world Bioforge platform technology can produce high value chemical goods that are biobased and carbon negative, at cost on par with current technologies. We are making sustainable chemistry accessible to all living things, to ensure a prosperous world exists for generations.
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