Macro Oceans

Kelp is the perfect industrial crop: all the versatility of corn or soy with none of the ungodly land, water, and chemicals needs. With just two of Earth’s most abundant resources–sunlight and seawater–kelp generates abundant biomass, sucks up carbon, reduces ocean acidification, and provides marine life habitat. But to get to corn-scale, kelp must compete on cost, quality, and quantity. Macro Oceans converts kelp into multiple valuable products in just one single step. Their modular, zero-waste system feeds whole plants to a cocktail of microbes that gently extract bioactive compounds. These compounds can be used or converted into a range of all-natural, high-quality functional plant-based feedstocks like biopolymers, pharmaceuticals, sugars, and proteins. Macro Oceans’ single-step process dramatically simplifies processing and reduces costs 7x over existing bioprocessing practices. The drop-in, plant-based ingredients offer a zero-waste feedstock for products typically derived from petroleum or industrial mono-crops in some of the world’s largest, most pollutive industries like pharma, plastics, textiles, and animal protein.