Deep tech firm Anzen Industries has raised $2.2m (£1.7m) for a pre-seed funding round in support of its biomanufacturing and chemical engineering technology.
The startup essentially develops the building blocks for the multi-trillion dollar global chemicals industry. Anzen with its enzyme reactor technology, immobilisation techniques and AI design aims to engineer molecules to make chemical manufacturing more efficient and cost-effective.
This in turn would support the manufacture of an enormous variety of products including food, medicines and materials.
“Europe’s strong scientific heritage, community and support have allowed us, as science-based founders, to take our breakthrough from scientific discovery to viable commercial venture,” said Amy Locks, Anzen Industries’ co-founder and chief executive.
“As we look to the next stage of our growth, the US offers a more advanced industrial and innovation ecosystem that is ideal for us as we take a critical step in scaling Anzen’s technology globally.”
The investment round was led by LocalGlobe and Creator Fund.
“Re-industrialisation is one of the defining waves of this decade, and manufacturing is where it breaks hardest,” said Julia Hawkins, general partner at LocalGlobe.
“Anzen is re-imagining how critical molecules are made from first principles, bringing resilience, speed and sovereignty back into global supply chains. Amy and Pedro are exactly the kind of surfers we look for: deeply technical, relentlessly ambitious, and building for a generational shift.”