TintBiotech

We are building the ingredients house algae deserves.

The world does not need more biomass. It needs ingredients that work in real applications, and a way to scale them globally.

A member of the team taking notes beside the spray dryer in the plant

Why we are doing this.

We have watched the same pattern for years.

Promising natural ingredients that fail once they hit real processing. Producers stuck selling biomass on thin margins. Brands under pressure to reformulate, and forced to choose between natural and working.

We do not accept that tradeoff.

If an ingredient does not perform in the real world, it is not a solution. If a supply chain cannot scale, it will not matter.

The gap is where projects die.

An ingredient can look right in a laboratory and then collapse under heat, pH, light, time or one formulation constraint. That is where most projects stop.

Closing it is the whole company.

We build the process, the way the molecule is stabilised and the format it ships in, until it behaves like any other industrial input.

Feeding biomass through the bench homogeniser in the laboratory
Breaking the cell, on the bench.

What we believe.

Algae is the platform for future ingredients.

We start with spirulina and move across micro and macroalgae. No single organism carries a whole portfolio.

The biorefinery is the only way to scale.

Pulling one molecule out of a crop does not add up. Four products out of the same batch do, and that is what lets each line be priced the way it is.

Sustainability is useless if the ingredient fails.

It matters. But no plant manager approves an ingredient that fails, however sustainable it is. The specification has to hold first.

Filtering a batch of extract by hand at the pilot
An operator charging the extraction vessel in the plant
A technician working a tray of biomass paste in the laboratory
A founder pouring extract through a funnel at the pilot plant

Ingredients should not fail at the factory gate.

A large share of what industry buys from petrochemistry, algae can make instead. Almost none of it is viable today, and what blocks it is nearly always the processing rather than the biology.

Meet the founders

Built by people who have done this before.

Ricardo Molina
Co-founder and CEO Ricardo Molina
Benjamín Medina
Co-founder and COO Benjamín Medina
Gabriel Castro
Co-founder and CSO Gabriel Castro
35+ yearsThe experience the team combines
56 projectsInstalled around the world
6 monthsTo the first samples

How we think about scale.

We do not believe in one mega factory. We believe in a network. We partner with a biomass producer, build the biorefinery with them, prove the performance, then sell globally. It is faster, it costs less capital, and it puts supply next to where the biomass already grows.

A global algae ingredient platform.

Four lines ship or quote today. The rest take the same route: solve the processing, add the line, and let the shared batch carry the cost.

Tint Colors Tint Sups Tint Beauty Tint Agro Tint Food Tint Feed Tint Pet Tint Aqua

Supported by.

Antler invested and is our only institutional investor to date. MassChallenge, TUM Venture Labs ChemSPACE and the START Fellowship took us through their programmes. The Universidad de Almería gives us the research facilities we work from.

Antler MassChallenge TUM Venture Labs ChemSPACE START Fellowship Universidad de Almería

If you believe algae can do more, build with us.

Samples are free, sized for a real test, and dispatched within 5 business days. Tell us what the ingredient has to survive.