High-Temperature Microbial Electrolysis

We have a biomanufacturing platform that leverages hyperthermophilic, gene-editable archaea to produce chemicals for sale. Our first set of microbes turn organic waste into green hydrogen and biogenic carbon dioxide. Bigger vision for these first microbes is to use already-existing processes to combine the hydrogen and carbon into green hydrocarbons (primary source of car, truck, and plane fuels, and plastic). Our fermentation technology is 20x faster than existing microbial decomposition methods. We’ve scaled from 25mL to 2L proof-of-concept, with our next milestones being patent portfolio build-out and 100L demo. Our first downstream application for these gasses is sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), followed by plastics, ethanol, and other synthetic fuels.
Speakers:
Niranjan Kulkarni
Henry Markarian
Jake Sweed