Sea6 Energy
Chennai, India, July 2010[1] | |
Founder | Nelson Vadassery Sowmya Balendiran Sailaja Nori Shrikumar Suryanarayan Sayash Kumar |
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Headquarters | , |
Products | Bioplastics, Biostimulants, Food ingredients and Biofuel |
Website | www |
Sea6 Energy is a seaweed company based in Bangalore, India[2] that focuses on cultivating and processing tropical seaweed species.[3] The company has developed a proprietary cultivation mechanism called the SeaCombine, which can simultaneously harvest and replant seaweed in deep ocean waters, enabling cost-competitive production at scale. The company has also developed proprietary technologies to convert fresh seaweed into environmentally friendly products for a range of industries including agriculture, animal health, food ingredients, bioplastics and renewable chemicals.[3] In 2012, Sea6 Energy was given the title of "Emerging Company of the Year" by the Government of Karnataka.[4]
Company history
As students at the
The company was founded in July 2010 with funding from a few IIT Madras alumni, Suryanarayan, the Indian Department of Biotechnology, and other investors.[6] The company began operation in Chennai, using laboratories and equipment provided by IIT Madras.[1] The company would later move to their current location in Bangalore to take advantage of facilities and instrumentation at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP),[7] a company co-founded by Shrikumar Suryanarayan.[8]
On 31 January 2012, Sea6 Energy signed a deal with
Research and development
Traditionally, algal-based biofuels have been derived from
Sea6 Energy has successfully converted red seaweed into ethanol
References
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- ^ a b Livemint (21 July 2021). "Ocean farming startup Sea6 Energy raises $9 million in funding". mint. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
- ^ Vaidya, Manasi; Saptarshi Chaudhuri; Uma Kelath; Vipul Merarka (8 March 2012). "Minds meet to fuel India's bioeconomy". BioSpectrum. Archived from the original on 29 April 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
- ^ a b c Pulakkat, Hari (28 July 2011). "How Chennai startup is using seaweed to drive India's biofuel thrust". The Economic Times. Archived from the original on 17 April 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
- ^ a b c d e Mukherji, Biman (1 October 2012). "The Power of Seaweed". India Realtime via The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 29 April 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
- ^ "Incubation at C-CAMP". www.ccamp.res.in. C-CAMP. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
- ^ Gunashekar, Raj (14 February 2014). "We are not a risk-loving country". BioSpectrum. Archived from the original on 29 April 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
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- ISBN 978-1118634509.
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