AmphiStar develops, scales up, and produces high-performance biosurfactants derived entirely from biobased waste and side streams. These biocompatible ingredients serve diverse markets including home care, personal care, industrial cleaners, textiles, and agrochemicals. The company utilizes patented technology to deliver uniform, pure, and sustainable surfactant solutions that support a circular economy.
Funding
$7.3M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Problem
The surfactant industry heavily relies on non-renewable resources, contributing to environmental degradation and raising concerns about long-term sustainability. Traditional surfactants often involve complex mixtures and lack the uniformity needed for specific applications.
Solution
AmphiStar addresses these challenges by producing high-performance, sustainable biosurfactants entirely from bio-based waste and side streams using patented bioprocessing technology. This approach ensures eco-friendly, biodegradable alternatives to traditional surfactants, suitable for a wide range of applications. AmphiStar's technology transforms diverse biomass into uniform and pure sophorolipids, offering variety and precise customization to meet specific application needs. Their sophorolipids are second-generation, produced without contributing to direct land use or deforestation.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes manufacturers in home care, personal care, industrial cleaners, textiles, and agrochemicals seeking sustainable and high-performance surfactant solutions.
Features
- Patented bioprocessing technology for converting bio-based waste and side streams into biosurfactants
- Production of second-generation (2G) sophorolipids, ensuring no direct land use or deforestation
- Offers both high lactonic and high acidic sophorolipids, available in low and high purity levels
- Customizable mixtures of lactonic and acidic sophorolipids to meet specific customer needs
- Products are biocompatible, biodegradable, eco-friendly, sulfate-free, and 1,4-dioxane free and non-toxic
- Uniform and pure products, unlike complex mixtures of traditional biosurfactants