News and Updates

We’re pleased as punch to be able to announce another grant win, this time in partnership with the wonderful and world-renowned University College London. Working with them we will be optimising our processes and working to scale up our production capabilities. Thanks, as always, to Innovate UK for supporting us and UCL with this award.

We’re back at it with another fantastic grant award from the fabulous Innovate UK. This is in collaboration with the Biorenewables Development Centre and will be exploring our downstream processing methods and feedstocks.

We are very excited to announce that we’ve been awarded a highly competitive Smart Grant by InnovateUK, the UK’s innovation agency, to follow on from our Fast Start award! Over the next year we will be using this project to work on key sections of our process that enable us to scale production of a alternative to palm oil using fermentation.

We’re proud to be driving change in producing sustainable everyday essentials, and to be selected by Innovate UK in a pool of inspiring, game-changing projects.

It’s sad to be finishing up the MassChallenge journey. We’ve met some fantastic startups focused on the environment and a network of amazing corporate partners, investors, mentors and of course the MC team. It has been a truly inspiring few months and we look forward to growing and developing the relationships we have only just started.

This week Laura and the Bens are on the road, spending several days in the Netherlands for the final week of the Startlife Accelerator. It has been a very helpful and supportive programme over the past 4 months, and we’re sad to be completing it.

The access to corporate partners and Wageningen University, where StartLife is based, has created opportunities for a number of really exciting collaborations. We’re really looking forward to continuing the relationship over the coming years.

We are delighted to have been selected to take part in the world renowned MassChallenge Switzerland accelerator following two tough judging rounds.

We'll be in a cohort with some of the world's best startups working in agrifoodtech innovation, working on the "Sustainable Food" sector. It's a real honor and we can't wait to start!