News and Updates

It was such a pleasure to catch up with old and new friends at Future Food Tech London. Our CEO, Ben Wilding, discussed alternative raw ingredients and their importance to stabilising future supply chains. Whilst this was going on our CTO, Ben Williams, had the pleasure of pitching at NutrEvent Lille too - it was a busy week.

We know we’re good in food (95% of sensory testing participants prefer our cookies to palm oil baked cookies) but how are we in other products - cosmetics?

Equally good. The testing data and the feedback from 30 people that have now tried our moisturiser and hair serum have both been very positive. We like a bit of qualitative and quantitative here at Sun Bear HQ.

We invited our partners and collaborators to spend an evening celebrating all of our success to date at our inaugural Sun Bear Fest. It was fantastic fun, and a lovely way to pause and say thank you to all that have helped us in the last two years.

We’ll be making it even bigger and better next year so watch this space.

The whole team had a great time at the inaugural HEAT Festival at the Harwell Science Campus, just outside Oxford. Hundreds of climate-focused folk gathered for talks, drumming, music and connections. Of course there was a pitch competition, which Ben was dressed as a bear for…sadly no photographic evidence but we assure you it happened :)

It won’t mean too much to most people, but we just want to mention - shake flask to 350L in 9 months. Drop the mic and walk off stage.

In other words we’re moving quickly and making great progress. This is thanks to our awesome team and network of invaluable partners and collaborators.

With all our safety testing results back we’re very excited to announce that we’ve enjoyed the taste of our oil for the first time ever this week. Baked into a delicious chocolate chip cookie, it was the perfect way to finish the first phase of our mission to prevent 100 millions tonnes of CO2 annually within 10 years.