Sustainable Urban Protein

We are developing a new sustainable plant-based protein out of microalgae. 

This strain of microalgae can grow in a fermentation tank, be fed on various food waste, and could be harvested in just 3 days. It has 60% of protein and excellent essential amino acids profile.

This can be a sustainable food source due to,

1. Not much land mass is needed (No deforestation)

2. 90%+ of the water can be recycled. 

3. Production cycle is fast, only 3-10 days

4. The whole system can be setup near metropolitan area to cut down the needs for agriculture and transportation, addressing the food security and supply chain disruption issues facing the world today

5. Our microalgae is fed with industrial food waste like spent grains, okara, and molasses

6. More importantly, NO fertilizer, herbicide, antibiotic, or even growth hormone for the whole process. Truly healthy to the environment and human body

The COVID-19 pandemic clearly showed that current food production and distribution system is not able to address lots of issues during the time of crisis.  These issues include food security and supply chain disruption.  

We are designing a new sustainable food production system out of microalgae to address these critical issues. Using microalgae, you can grow various nutrients, especially protein, efficiently.  The whole system is very compact and can be setup right in the center of big metropolitan areas.  Lots of automation can be implemented with this system so that manpower needed is minimum.   

This solution is addressing the needs of the Whole World, not a specific or targeted population.  As the world population increased to over 10 billion people by 2050, we need a more sustainable solution to help produce our foods and the nutrients needed by all the people at an affordable cost.  That is what this solution is about. 

We are going to run out of space and resources if we keep growing foods using current methods.  Animal farming is not sustainable. Agriculture needs a lot of land and water.  Aquaculture has even more problems.  The only viable solution going forward is to rely on microorganism for all the nutrients needed by human beings using various bioreactors.  And the best microorganism for this job is definitely Microalgae - a huge family of about one million species on this planet and can be found in fresh and sea water.

There are many other microalgae protein flour available in the market.  But almost all of the suppliers are in what we called "Nutraceutical" industry.  Their flour can only be used as protein supplement and comes at a premium price.  Our microalgae protein flour is not only affordable, but can also be used to make into plant milk and plant meat.    

We are using mixotrophic strains of microalgae to be grown in patent-pending special bioreactors.  The bioreactors are specially designed so that we can regulate the heterotrophic and autotrophic growth of our strains at the same time.  This will allow us to both regulate its pace of growth and change the amino acid compositions.  

Again, if we keep using the conventional way of growing foods, we will run out of clean space, forests, fresh water, and even quality air.  Using our technology, we can help reduce those impacts while making enough nutrients to support the future population growth. 

We still do not have a product for sale yet.  But we will be able to serve at least a few million people in the next 3-5 years.  

We are planning to commercialize our protein flour next year.  Within 5 years, you will probably see plant-milk made out of our protein flour and plant-meat made with our protein.  

Access to capital is the only barrier in the foreseeable future.  

We plan to make more people aware of our technologies so that more investors will be interested in our project. 

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3 fulltime, 3 part-time, 3 contract manufacturers we are using now.

Eugene Wang  - Co-founder & CEO

20+ years in food manufacturing

MBA degree from Columbia Business School

Kirin Tsuei – Co-founder & CTO

20+ years in global supplement companies

MS in Nutrition Science from UC Davis

Licensed Dietitian

Barnabas Chan – Co-founder & COO

20+ years in global pharmaceutical and consumer health companies Nanyang Technological University

Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Singapore and Nanyang Technological University on technology development and a broader research partnership.

Our revenue model includes,

Direct Sale - of finished products
Licensing – of whole technologies
Other By-Products 

We are hoping that Solve will help raise the profile of our solution, making people aware of a better idea to produce nutrients for the world. 

We are based in Singapore at the moment.  This is the best opportunity for us to reach out to the world get help from more places. 

Any organization which is interested in making our food system more sustainable.