Growing nature-inspired companies

Through the leading AI platform for biomimetic R&D, Asteria connects engineers with nature’s unique ingenuity to design tomorrow’s sustainable solutions.

H&B Materials develops a biosourced water-repellent textile treatment derived from rapeseed fatty acids, offering industrial manufacturers a PFAS-free, plug-and-play alternative that preserves the colour, feel and breathability of the fabric.

Renature develops Phyli®, a 100% plant-based flexible material, derived from agricultural by-products, offering luxury manufacturers a solvent-free, plastic-free and fully circular alternative to animal leather and synthetic leather that works directly on existing production lines.

Using nature-inspired strategies to create lower cost and more sustainable solutions for urgent water challenges such as PFAS and heavy metal contamination.

Myc develops the first platform of machinable mycelium-based materials, offering industrial manufacturers a biosourced, scalable alternative to polyurethane foams and MDF that works directly on standard CNC machines.

Each ton of rare earths creates 2,000 tons of toxic waste, and demand will rise 7x by 2040. REEcover extracts rare earths elements from waste with 10x better separation, offering a sovereign, cleaner, circular alternative to mining.

Leonina Bio develops a bacterial biosensor kit detecting PFAS on-site in 24h, enabling large-scale monitoring and earlier detection for faster environmental decisions.

Tera Mira turns seaweed into stretch fibres, replacing elastane with a bio-based alternative, compatible with existing spinning infrastructure.

BioWraptor’s peptide-based coating stabilizes biologics at room temperature, eliminating cold-chain dependence across diagnostics, research tools and medicines.

AMYLEN harnesses animal proteins to generate clean electricity from ambient humidity, as a maintenance-free power source for low-power devices.

NOIET upcycles oat and rice byproducts through microbial fermentation into a clean-label ingredient that preserves and enriches food without synthetic additives.

Formutis uses computationally generated, bio-inspired surface geometries to deliver 2x better grip on black ice using standard TPU, no spikes, no specialty materials.

PureZone’s additive turns coatings into active CO₂- and VOC-reducing surfaces, capturing up to 5x more CO₂ than alternatives with no energy input.

Oleo turns lignocellulosic waste into carbon-negative oil for aviation fuel via yeast fermentation, 22% cheaper than seed oils and refinery-compatible.

Tumbleweed deploys wind-driven spherical rovers in autonomous swarms to map extreme, remote environments on Earth and Mars at a fraction of the cost.

C1 Bio engineers soil bacteria to convert waste glycerol into bio-based materials, replacing petroleum-derived chemicals in semiconductor manufacturing.

Water contamination from PFAS, heavy metals, and industrial chemicals is a growing crisis. Xatoms uses AI and quantum chemistry to create photocatalysts for chemical-free water purification with sunlight or LEDs.

UV exposure causes 3M+ skin cancer cases yearly, shorten product lifespans by 50%, costing billions in damage. Melwear’s responsive membranes incorporate bacterial melanin to dynamically darken upon exposure to UV rays.

High costs keep nanomanufacturing out of reach, limiting advanced biomimetic materials deployment. Nanoscale Labs’ spray platform cuts nanomanufacturing costs 1000x, enabling scalable biomimetic surfaces like power-free adhesives and antibacterial coatings.

Synthetic fibers cause 500,000 tons of ocean microplastics and 40% of textile CO₂ emissions each year. ArtSilk develops an outperforming bioengineered spider silk fiber through a water-based, non-toxic spinning process.