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Production of Sustainable Oils and Fats in Oleaginous Yeast
Dr. Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro
Imperial College London
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BioHalo - High Performance Biomaterials
Dr. Mariela Mezzina, CSO BioHalo
Denmarks Technical University
With ValleyDAO as spinout partner, we managed to bridge our research into a startup by supporting us in navigating tech transfer, business development and in securing vital pre-seed funding.

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We don’t want to waste your valuable time writing and waiting for grants. ValleyDAO is committed to grant qualifying applicants with up to $200k in funding in less than 2 months.

Why work with ValleyDAO?

Backed by A Community

We provide our researchers not only funding, but also a community of entrepreneurs, researchers, investors and thought-leaders  committed to the outcomes of your work.

Your Work Beyond the Bench

Our community is dedicated to intentionally  facilitate conversations, collaborations, and connections that can transform your research into real-world applications and solutions.

Funding What Others Might Not

We provide an alternative funding avenue for those daring ideas that may be considered too unconventional or risky by traditional standards.

Faster Access to Funding

We don’t want to waste your time valuable time writing and waiting for grants. ValleyDAO is committed to grant qualifying applicants up to $250k in funding in less than 2 months.

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Featured Projects

Production of Oils and Fats in Oleaginous Yeast

Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro
Imperial College London

Microbially produced oils and fats have a wide range of applications, such as the production of biofuels, infant formula, and ethical palm oil. Ledesma-Amaro's project aims to improve the production yield of oils in yeast while simultaneously decreasing expensive downstream processing.

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Sustainable Biofluorination of Organic Molecules

Pablo I. Nikel & Mariela P. Mezzina
Denmarks Technical University

Fluorinated organic molecules are difficult to manufacture sustainably due to requiring harsh chemical conditions. Nikel’s group has developed a process to biomanufacture a diverse set of fluorinated molecules that can be used in the electronics, healthcare, automotive, and wearables industries.

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SynbioCAD: A Software for Bioproduction Pipelines

Jean-Loup Faulon & Joan Hérisson
University of Paris-Saclay

SynbioCAD is a software for designing metabolic routes for bioproduction that can save technicians hours of work. It enables end-to-end pathway design and engineering, from strain and target selection to the generation of scripts driving liquid handlers for plasmid assembly and strain transformations.

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