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Synergia Biotech

CARBON CAPTURE
& CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY

COMPLETELY NATURAL
NON-SYNTHETIC COLOUR

HIGH VALUE
& QUALITY

MADE IN
CANADA

Our Venture

Synergia Biotech is a clean technology that produces an all-natural, vibrant blue pigment.

Our venture values the environment and our planet’s future. By capturing carbon from the air, our process efficiently mitigates CO2 emissions while producing food-safe, healthy alternative to artificial blue. 

 

Colour greatly affects the market value of food products and consumers are increasingly aware of the potential health risks associated to synthetic colours (allergenicity, toxicity, carcinogenicity, links to hyper activity in children). Colours sourced from nature are thus highly sought-after in industry. Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and removal of CO2 from the atmosphere are of critical importance to the environment.

 

Synergia Biotech sits at the juncture of these two global necessities to create highly marketable pure phycocyanin that can be used as a natural, vibrant blue dye in industry.

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Synergistic microbes that cooperate to convert sunlight and CO2 into biomass

CO2  molecule

Cyanobacteria

Forward thinking 

Our name ‘Synergia’ comes from Modern Latin and Greek version of the word ‘synergy’ meaning cooperation and a working together. Our technology relies on natural populations of microbes (cyanobacteria) that cooperate to convert sunlight and CO2 into biomass. The biomass gets broken down by a microbial process to release the valuable, natural blue pigment.

Team

Blending years of scientific research and innovation with commercialization prowess and expertise.

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PhD Biological Sciences

A galvanizing force between team members, stakeholders and mentors, Angela Kouris draws on over fifteen years of collaborative international work and research experience to actualize Synergia Biotech’s technology commercialization.

Angela Kouris
CEO & Founder

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Agasteswar Vadlamani
CTO & Founder

PhD Bioengineering
and Biomedical Engineering

 
Agasteswar Vadlamani is a biomedical engineer with a background in scaling up algal growth systems.  

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Marc Strous

Founder & Director

PhD Chemical Engineering

Marc Strous is a groundbreaking scientist and fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has experience with innovation and commercialization of biotechnology, already leading to tons/day of CO2 emission reductions worldwide. At the University of Calgary, he mentors a new generation of leaders in science and business for success.

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Alison Sunstrum
Director

GP, The51 Food
& AgTech Fund


Decades of experience in the agrifood, agtech, innovative tech and venture capital industries. Serial entrepreneur and community builder finding and creating sustainable solutions that improve agriculture’s profitability.

Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)
Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC)
The51 Food & AgTech Fund
University of Calgary
Women's Equity Lab
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