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.

Natural ingredients look right in a laboratory and then collapse under heat, pH, light, time or a formulation constraint. That is the point at which a project stops.

Closing it is the whole company.

We build the processes, the stabilization strategies and the product formats that behave like real industrial inputs.

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 expand across micro and macroalgae, because one organism never carries a portfolio on its own.

The biorefinery is the only way to scale.

Single product extraction does not build economics. Four saleable outputs from one biomass do, and that is what lets each line price the way it does.

Sustainability is useless if the ingredient fails.

It matters, and it does not survive contact with a plant manager on its own. 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 very large share of what industry buys from petrochemistry, algae can make instead. Almost none of it is commercially viable today, and the blocker is nearly always downstream 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. Partner with the biomass producer, build the biorefinery with them, validate the performance, then commercialize globally. It is faster, it is more capital efficient, and it puts supply next to where the biomass already grows.

A global algae ingredient platform.

Four lines ship or quote today. The rest follow the same route: solve the downstream, add the line, and let the shared biomass 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.