Built

Biology.

We accelerate microorganisms to grow advanced bioengineered materials and remove carbon emissions.

Why?

Materials are the platform technology for our physical world. Almost all of our modern materials come from processes that emit CO2. We have many solutions to reduce operational emissions of our industrial products and their processes but we have no solutions that can resolve the embodied carbon of modern products and industries, which is crucial to meet our net-zero targets.

What?

Our solution is a new platform technology that directly sequesters CO2 and converts it into high-performance bioengineered materials. These materials are grown and integrated with living photosynthetic cells, and offer high-value applications in sectors ranging real-estate, construction, automotive, aeronautics, farming and space industries.

How?

We have discovered an industrially scalable and economically feasible proprietory technology, similar to artificial tissue engineering, that allows us to accelerate the natural carbon sequestering capacity of ancient microorganisms and grow tunable living materials within a span of weeks that out-perform existing materials and their performances.

Close up of the photosynthetic structural tissue

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Advanced

Bioengineered

Materials

Physical properties

Biological properties

Grown and integrated with living photosynthetic cells.

Variants

Variants

Cell-loom

Type: thin-film, flexible, foldable.
Applications: coatings, screens, fabrics.

Cell-case

Type: mouldable, lightweight, rigid.
Applications: shells, coverings, packaging.

Cell-struct

Type: standard, insulative, fire-resistant.
Applications: structural insulation, partition boards.

Cell-morph

Type: emergent forms, one-off, functionally graded.
Applications: custom builds.

Prototype demonstration

Working demonstration of 4-meter-scale prototype panels of the CellStruct variant at the Bioscope Pavillion at St. Andrews Botanic Garden. In collaboration with Studio Biocene. More information here.

Vision

Cell-morph variant:

We envision a future where the man-made world is not any different from the biological, and living world.

Team

Prantar Mahanta Tamuli

Founder
Director of Technology

Prantar is a Biochemical Architect. He is a Ph.D. scholar at the Advanced Centre for Biochemical Engineering at University College London and the inventor of the solid-state cyanobacteria bioprocess engineering technology. He is also a professionally qualified Architect with double gold medals and he has a decade of experience in the building and construction industry working for large scale projects centred around ecological restoration, biodiversity rejuvenation, and sustainable development.

Dr. Steven Roberts

Co-founder
Director of Administration

Steven has more than 30 years of experience as the former COO of Barclays, Head of Culture and Transformational director, chief scientific Advisor and Founder of Barclays Eagle Labs. He has extensive experience in Portfolio Management, Business Relationship Management, Risk Management, Finance, and Stakeholder Management. He has served as a non executive director (and Chair) of many joint ventures and subsidiaries of Barclays. He also has a PhD in Geophysics from Cambridge University.

Andrew Gray

Co-founder
Director of Operations

Andy is the chairman of the Devon County Agriculture Association and Trustee of The West County Rivers Association. He has more than 25 years of experience in engineering, operating and optimizing large scale regenerative farming-based processes and practices. He has successfully led the 13-generation old historical Elston Farm, the M C Kelly enterprise and the EV quarry in Devon. He has experience as one of the largest employers in the South West region of UK with an extensive local and international supply chain and distribution network.

Gerard Toplass

Non-Executive Director
Construction

Gerard is a seasoned serial-entrepreneur with five successful exits and a leading voice in the building industry for 17 years. He was the founder of the Pagabo Group, UKs leading social value, procurement and contract & risk management platform for the Construction Sector. Pagabo manages over £2b of UK construction projects annually through their ecosystem of 300 construction suppliers. He has extensively worked with key stakeholders in the building indsutry and has a fundamental understanding of the operations of the construction sector.

Caroline Muggridge

Head of Finance

Caroline has a unique combination of skill set as a qualified Chartered accountant with a Master's in business management and a degree in psychology. She has extensive understanding of financial strategy, operational structuring, management accounting, leadership and cultural transformation. She has more than a decade of experience in financial management in public, private and non-profit sectors and has previously served as the Head of Finance and Corporate reporting at the University of Exeter and Strategic Finance Manager at Price Bailey LLP.

Erica Neve

Head of Communications

Erica has 20 years of experience in combining communication, education, behaviour change, and technology to create transformation programs and campaigns for a wide range of audiences from household brands, and small charities, to major government departments. With the personal mission to help find solutions to the climate and biodiversity emergency she has helped several companies achieve sustainable growth., Erica is also on the board of The Eden Project and a board advisor for AimHi Earth, a climate communication and technology business.

Dr Brenda Parker

Bioprocess advisor

Brenda is a biochemical engineer and Associate Professor of Sustainable Bioprocess Design at the UCL Department of Biochemical Engineering. Her research focuses on industrial biotechnology, in particular the use of photosynthetic organisms. Her approach is highly interdisciplinary, bringing together the fields of engineering, molecular biology and synthetic biology. Brenda’s research into scale up of microalgal processes for recombinant protein production, bioremediation and nutrient recycling has resulted in numerous scientific publications.

Prof. Marcos Cruz

Advanced Architecture Advisor

Marcos is a Professor of Innovative Environments at The Bartlett, investigating design that is driven by advances in bio-technology and computation. Marcos' previous work on Neoplasmatic Architecture was awarded the international RIBA prize for research in 2008. His 15-year practice work collaboration with Marjan Colletti led to over 30 projects, which were exhibited and published in over 300 publications and exhibitions, including the Venice and São Paulo Biennale, the Royal Academy of Arts, SCI-arc and TADA Centre Taiwan, amongst many others.

Dr. Hannah Laeverenz-Schlogelhofer

Biophysics Advisor

Hannah is a Biophysicist Postdoctoral Researh fellow at the Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter. She has an extensive scientific education in Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Materials Science, Nano technology and Biophysics all from the University of Cambridge. Her current work focuses on using interdisciplinary analytical technqiues to study electrical signalling, motility and embodied intelligence of single-cell microorganisms. She has expertise in advacned digital data analytics, microscopy and electrophysiology.

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