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The world's first at-home genetic and skin microbiome test
60% of people will suffer a skin condition at some point during their lives.

Sequential Skin provides the world’s first truly personalized skincare solution. Their easy-to-use at-home test kit uses advanced genetic sequencing technology to understand how your genes, skin microbiome, and environment interact to define the unique needs of your skin. They then match you to tailored skin care products that provide the exact ingredients that will work best for your skin, to boost your overall health.

Oliver Worsley, Ph.D., CEO
Skin health isn’t nature or nurture; it’s both. Genetics testing provides insight into our predisposition, or natured self, and microbiome testing provides insight into our environment, or nurtured self.
Sequential Skin
Oliver Worsley, Ph.D., CEO
Skin health isn’t nature or nurture; it’s both. Genetics testing provides insight into our predisposition, or natured self, and microbiome testing provides insight into our environment, or nurtured self.
the future of light
One billion toxic, single-use glow sticks are thrown away every year.

Lux Bio is the first company in the world developing enzyme-powered light for real-world applications. Our long-duration enzyme platform unlocks multi-billion-dollar markets across safety, defense, entertainment, cosmetics, therapeutics, and more.

Paige Whitehead, CEO
Discarded glow sticks eventually degrade, the plastic is disrupted, and their toxic chemicals enter our environment. They're actually these little time bombs!
Lux Bio
Paige Whitehead, CEO
Discarded glow sticks eventually degrade, the plastic is disrupted, and their toxic chemicals enter our environment. They're actually these little time bombs!
Powering the plant-based future
70% of the world’s freshwater goes into agriculture. Shouldn’t it be reusable?

microTERRA has developed a unique functional ingredient for the plant-based food industry, which has no color or taste, enabling customers to deliver nutritional value without sacrificing the texture, taste, or presentation of plant-based products that aim to mirror traditional protein sources.

microTERRA partners with existing aquaculture farms in Mexico to grow lemna, an aquatic plant, in a scalable, affordable, and sustainable way. microTERRA is able to leverage these aquafarms to produce lemna 3-5 times cheaper than competitors, while providing farmers with an extra revenue stream, cleaner aquafarm water, and a reduced water footprint by two thirds. microTERRA’s vision is to create ingredients that instead of using water, are cleaning water.

Marissa Cuevas Flores, CEO
What if we could take toxic nitrogen and phosphorus from the water and put it back into the land or﹣even better﹣produce something that we can use to feed the world?
microTERRA
Marissa Cuevas Flores, CEO
What if we could take toxic nitrogen and phosphorus from the water and put it back into the land or﹣even better﹣produce something that we can use to feed the world?
Developer of Breast Milk Protein-Based Formulas
22 million babies are suffering from food allergies worldwide.

Harmony Baby Nutrition is a biotech-driven company revolutionizing the $100B global infant formula market by creating products that mirror the form and function of human milk. Founded by serial entrepreneur Wendel Afonso, the company leverages deep formulation science to develop hypoallergenic, clean-label formulas using human milk components. Unlike traditional cow’s milk-based formulas that can cause digestive distress for 1 in 5 babies, Harmony’s products are designed to be both highly tolerable and palatable. Supported by $13.5M in funding from top-tier VCs and a team of experts from institutions like Harvard and Nestlé, the company plans to launch its first product, Melodi, an allergy-friendly toddler formula, in Q2 2026. Harmony’s long-term mission is to eliminate the need for parents to compromise on nutrition, providing a superior alternative that helps the next generation thrive.

Wendel de Oliveira Afonso, CEO
Cow's milk is an agricultural problem, it can be an ethical problem, and for 1 in 5 babies, it's an allergic problem.
Harmony Baby Nutrition
Wendel de Oliveira Afonso, CEO
Cow's milk is an agricultural problem, it can be an ethical problem, and for 1 in 5 babies, it's an allergic problem.
Helping parents navigate food allergies
Free to Feed will help parents to pinpoint the source of infant allergies in days rather than months.

Free to Feed is dedicated to finding solutions for mothers of food intolerant infants. The Free to Feed allergen test that identifies various food proteins in breast milk, allowing breastfeeding mothers the opportunity to determine what is eliciting a response in the infant.

Free to Feed aims to offer women a solution other than blindly trialing elimination diets or switching to hypoallergenic formula. Their product will be an alternative and complementary option for mothers to understand what allergens may be present in their breast milk at the time of feeding.

Trill Paullin, CEO
"I was teaching lab techs to test cow’s milk for the presence of other allergens when I had an epiphany: what would happen if I snuck into a closet and squirted some breast milk on this thing? My next thought was compete anger; how in the world is it we can do this for cows but we don’t do this for women?"
Free to Feed
Trill Paullin, CEO
"I was teaching lab techs to test cow’s milk for the presence of other allergens when I had an epiphany: what would happen if I snuck into a closet and squirted some breast milk on this thing? My next thought was compete anger; how in the world is it we can do this for cows but we don’t do this for women?"
Next-gen materials leveraging the plastics supply chain
The global leather industry is one the highest polluting, with over 4 million tons of solid waste produced per year.

Rheom Materials is pioneering next-gen materials that leverage existing plastics manufacturing to create scalable, biobased alternatives from the Earth for the Earth. Their materials include Shorai™, a sustainable alternative to leather as well as Benree™ a sustainable biopolymer resin that can be used in place of petrochemical plastics.

Zimri T. Hinshaw, CEO
Wouldn't it be awesome to live in a world where people can have the newest clothes every 6 months if they want, but they're able to be disposed of: treated, returned and recycled or upcycled or broken down into their components and put into things like garden and compost.
Rheom
Zimri T. Hinshaw, CEO
Wouldn't it be awesome to live in a world where people can have the newest clothes every 6 months if they want, but they're able to be disposed of: treated, returned and recycled or upcycled or broken down into their components and put into things like garden and compost.