Founded in 2018 in a one-person laboratory.
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2018Founded at bench scale
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2020First commercial production
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2023Large-scale production
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2026First product spun out · Proteus Ag
Provectus Algae began with a conviction: that photosynthetic microbes (carbon-negative, endlessly diverse, and never mined for industrial biosolutions) could become the cleanest manufacturing platform on earth. The barrier was scale. Algae had defied it for decades.
So we built the missing tools. Proprietary lighting to control the organisms. An AI database to find the right ones. An automated foundry to optimise them, and a cloud system to manufacture continuously. Together they became Precision Photosynthesis®, and the platform around it.
Today that platform is proven end to end. Its first product, Surf'N'Turf®, went from problem selection to commercial product in three years and is now commercialising through its own operating company, Proteus Ag, with five more products in development behind it. The mission is the same as day one: nature, accelerated.
We start from a problem industry already pays to solve, with a defined buyer and price, and work back to the biology.
Our cell factories eat CO₂ and run on light. Sustainability is a property of the platform, not a bolt-on.
Removing the human from the loop is how we get repeatability, precision and exponential capacity.
