Funding the Future of Climate Biotech

Are you an entrepreneurially oriented researcher with promising early results in the lab? Let's accelerate your breakthrough science and translate it into real-world impact!

We fund your research with up to $200k

We’re committed to fund and support academic and independent translational synthetic biology research that addresses climate and food security problems.

We support in translating your research results

We leverage our global community of bioentrepreneurs, researchers, investors, and tech transfer specialists to help you bring your existing research findings and IP into real-world solutions.

With ValleyDAO, you're not just funded. You're embraced by a community that sharpens your scientific vision. Their global network has been instrumental in funding and moving our synthetic biology research to market.
Dr. Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro
Imperial College London, England
ValleyDAO’s community-driven approach has uniquely amplified our biomining research, providing not just resources, but a platform to explore impactful solutions for a circular economy.
Dr. Anna Kaksonen
CSIRO, Australia
ValleyDAO enabled us to swiftly secure funding in under two months and provided crucial guidance, shaping our enzymatic hemp fiber research towards clear commercial potential for the sustainable textile industry.
Prof. Georg Gübitz
Austrian Center of Industrial Biotechnology

Active Research Projects and Spinouts

Our projects are diligently de-risked and nurtured by climate biotech experts from academic, entrepreneurial, and industrial backgrounds, ensuring your successful transition from research to impactful solutions.
Research
Dr. Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro
Imperial College London

Cocoa ZERO: Beanless Chocolate, Lighter Footprint

Cocoa ZERO makes real chocolate taste using precision fermentation, not faraway plantations. We grow cocoa lipids locally in steel tanks, 90 percent matched to cocoa butter, then blend with sustainable beans for bars that melt like classic chocolate with a lighter footprint and a more reliable supply.
$300,000
Crowdfunded
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Research
Prof. Georg Gübitz
Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotech

Hempy: Wear the Future, Guilt Free

The clothing industry emits 5% of global emissions due to the high resource needs of cotton. Hemp offers a water efficient, pest resistant, and fast-growing alternative, but its stiff as a textile material. The Hempy project uses enzymes to soften hemp and unlock new fabric properties, creating fabric that feels good and does good.
$115,000
Crowdfunded
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Research
Dr. Anna Kaksonen
CSIRO

Forge: Metal Sovereignty through Biomining

Access to critical minerals now shapes national strength. Export controls, trade frictions, and rising demand for artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, and defense systems strain global supplies. CSIRO’s integrated biomining technology turns electronic waste into a domestic resource. The bioprocess has the potential to decrease energy and chemical use in contrast to traditional recycling methods.
$200,000
Crowdfunded
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Startup
Dr. Nicolas Krink
Founder & CEO of BioHalo

BioHalo: Forever Chemicals Disrupted by Biology

BioHalo engineers microbes for precision biohalogenation, building next-gen fluoropolymers that match PFAS performance while staying biodegradable. Their enzymatic toolkit rewires metabolic pathways to insert single fluorine atoms with atom-level control, creating safe, high-value materials.
$1,900,000
External Funding Raised
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Startup
Dr. Matteo Di Giovannantonio
Entrepreneur in Residence

SynbioCAD: AI Powered Strain Engineering

Biology is the new engineering, but strain design is still slow and fragmented. SynbioCAD unifies the computational toolkit, from target molecule to lab ready experiments, with AI that ranks pathways and a cell-free platform that tests and validates the most promising bioproduction routes. Bioengineering teams cut design time from months to weeks and move to build with confidence.
Currently in Incubation
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Why work with ValleyDAO?

Backed by A Community

We provide our researchers not only funding, but also access to 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 Funding

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.

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