Solugen

Solugen

Decarbonizing the chemicals industry.

Houston, TX
200 employees
Manufacturing
Series E Plus · $1.6B

About Solugen

Solugen is decarbonizing the chemistry of everyday life with enzymes and innovative metal catalysts. Our new to the world Bioforge platform technology can produce high value chemical goods that are biobased and carbon negative, at cost on par with current technologies. We are making sustainable chemistry accessible to all living things, to ensure a prosperous world exists for generations.

Company details

Team Size200
LocationHouston, TX
IndustryManufacturing

Funding

Total raised

$1.6B

Last stage

Series E Plus

Investors

Founders Fund
Y Combinator
Lowercarbon Capital
KKinnevik
Refactor Capital

Founders

Gaurab Chakrabarti

Gaurab Chakrabarti

Physician-scientist (MD/PhD in Cancer Biology & Enzymology from UT Southwestern). Co-founded Solugen in 2016 after discovering an enzyme that converts sugar into hydrogen peroxide during cancer research.

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Sean Hunt

Sean Hunt

Chemical engineer and MIT graduate. Focuses on novel metal catalysts, scaling proprietary chemo-enzymatic process technologies, and developing Solugen's Bioforge molecule factories.

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.