Nature,
Accelerated.
We discover and develop new biosolutions from a photosynthetic microbe library that has never been mined before, taking each one from problem selection to a product a customer can buy and use.
Developing industrial biosolutions is hard, and getting harder.
Plant, terrestrial-microbe and synthetic-chemistry libraries are exhausted. New chemistry is rare to find in them, antibiotics have been withdrawn with no equal replacement, and there are no biological substitutes at commodity cost.
Photosynthetic microbes are a new library that has never been mined. For decades they were impossible to work with at scale. We cracked that with Precision Photosynthesis®, controlling light to direct gene expression, growth and the molecules each species produces.
The result is an end-to-end platform that selects a problem industry already pays to solve, screens the library for biology that performs the function, and develops it into a product. Fast, and repeatable.
Sources: 5% of the US$94bn global cattle feed market, IMARC 2025 · NC State pesticide-resistance study 2018 · WOAH / World Bank antimicrobial-resistance modelling
From an unmined library to a finished product
Select the problem
A problem industry already pays to solve, with a defined buyer, a price and a niche only we can fill. Commercial from day one.
Discover
Magellan™ screens the proprietary library for biology that performs the function; natural optimisation and recombinant expression sharpen it. A library never mined before.
Develop
The Foundry builds the production recipe; downstream processing extracts, stabilises and formulates it into something a customer can buy and use. Raw material to bioactive to product.
Scale
Recipes proven at bench reproduce in modular, recirculating facilities that run continuously. Bench to 260 kL.
Surf'N'Turf®
The platform's first product: a dry feed supplement for ruminant livestock, based on seaweed science. At just 0.1% of the ration it reshapes enteric fermentation, cutting methane and improving feed digestion — and it drops straight into existing operations. Three years from problem selection to product, it is now commercialising through its own operating company, Proteus Ag.
Biosolutions industry already pays for
Agricultural Feed
Methane reduction and feed-efficiency gains for ruminant livestock. Enteric methane burns US$4.5bn of feed energy a year — supplements that drop into existing feed systems win it back.
Food, Beverage & Nutraceutical
High-value natural actives, antioxidants and pigments for supplements, functional foods and beverages — where natural origin commands the premium and synthetic cannot follow.
Crop Protection & Biostimulants
New biological modes of action for row crops as existing chemistry stops working. Where majors already own the regulatory and commercial infrastructure, we discover, validate and license.
Antimicrobials
Antibiotics are being withdrawn from animal agriculture with no equal replacement. Photosynthetic biology that reshapes microbial communities across livestock and the food supply chain.
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