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ABOUT US

Objectives

OBJECTIVES

We are a micro SME based in Lisbon, Portugal.

Our team is comprised of post-doctoral / post-graduate individuals with complementary experience in Phycology, Aquaculture, Biotechnology, Bioremediation, Food and animal feed development, and Sustainability.

Our main objectives are:

  • to provide the most relevant and cost-effective microalgae/cyanobacteria for diverse sustainable applications, namely as food and animal feed-additives, functional food and beverages, bioplastics, cosmetics, textiles, and dyes/pigments.

  • to explore and provide innovative and agile cyanobacteria/microalgae bioremediation solutions to industrial, urban, agricultural systems, as well as to help tackle natural algal blooms and other eutrophization agents

  • and,given the fairly recent and quite exponential growth of the algae-based markets, we also aim to actively contribute to pre-and co-normative research (i.e.PNR and CNR) for the further development and sound application of  algae-specific normative measures and standards.

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The STELLARIA bank of algae and cyanobacteria (S-Algae) is comprised of 47 strains, some of which likely to be proven phylogenetically unique.

 

We are now (re)starting to grow all these strains at lab/pilot scale and, all going well, will soon be accepting B2B orders for commercial use or for R&I applications.

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We intend to apply for 'organic' certification to also provide B2C algae-enriched functional food and beverages to individual consumers from the general public.

Examples of our products: red stage Haematococcus pluvialis  dry powder, Chlorella vulgaris broken cell wall / powder

The team

THE TEAM

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Isabel Canto de Loura

CEO

Research & Innovation Director

 

PhD in Phycology & Marine biotechnology

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JORGE COSTA

Researcher

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PhD in Energy / Bioenergy.    Toxicology expert.

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bc

Researcher

 

MSc in Biotechnology

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DS

Trainee

 

MSc. Biotechnology student

LCA of algae-based products

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Normative research

 

 

The copyrighted logo and icon designed by Luis Fonseca, brililantly capture the essence of the origin and ethos of the name of the company. 

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Designer's contact details

luisfonseca.design@gmail.com
+351 912 828 165
https://pt.linkedin.com/in/luis-pedro-h-fonseca-4776a024

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OUR LOGO

Research collaboration & Investors

RESEARCH COllaboratioN and Investors

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We are always looking to expand our portfolio of products and integrate collaborative research partnerships, both with academic and industrial partners in view of EU-funded/other externally funded or sponsored programmes.

 

Bootstrap investors and Angel investors most welcomed too. 

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