This Y Combinator-backed startup helps reduce climate-warming methane in cow burps. Check out the pitch deck Alga Biosciences used to secure $4 million.
The market has been undervalued thus far, according to Alex Brown, cofounder and CEO of Alga Biosciences. Figures like the 100-year warming potential of methane are part of the problem: Methane isn't even in the atmosphere for 88 of those years, Brown told Insider.
This is the challenge Algo Biosciences set out to fix. Brown was inspired by a species of red seaweed that has a natural capability to reduce methane when used as feed. They developed a biochemical process to tweak kelp so that when eaten it can change a cow's microbiome and subsequently methanogenesis, the process of making methane in the first stomach. This can be done using the existing seaweed supply chain, which is well-established thanks to uses in materials, food, and cosmetics. The kelp is sold as a powder to be added into feed.
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