News and Updates

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.

Last week we completed a collaboration with AberInnovation and several partner colleagues from Aberystwyth University as part of our Solutions Catalyst project, during which we explored a range of production and downstream processing methods.

Here you can see our CTO Ben checking out a sample of the oil we produced. This is a really exciting advancement of our R&D and we look forward to continuing our collaboration with the fantastic team over in Wales.

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!

With fewer than 1000 sun bears left we felt we needed to do something pro-active, and so we've adopted a sun bear to support the wonderful work of the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre (https://www.bsbcc.org.my/index.html) and the work they do to rescue and protect these beautiful animals.

Whilst our mission is to prevent 100 million tonnes of carbon annually by 2030 we know action is needed now, so this small gesture at least starts us on our way. The sun bear is clearly important to us and is a key part of our founding story. The tragedy of the impact we have all caused on the planet led us to choose a name that reminds us every day of our mission. Thanks and lots of appreciation go out to the BSBCC from all of the Sun Bear Biofuture team!