Ingredients. Mother Nature Approved.
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BioVeritas is the leading bio-based ingredients company pioneering a proprietary upcycling process that closely matches Mother Nature.
OUR MISSION
Nearly 30% of food produced in the world is discarded. This ending point is BioVeritas’ starting point.
We upcycle underutilized and excess biomass from food processing into clean-label ingredients through a fermentation process that closely mirrors Mother Nature. We do this to create a world where the ingredients of tomorrow are produced naturally -- with net zero emissions and without petrochemicals.​
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This journey began nearly thirty years ago, at Texas A&M University, before the word “upcycling” had ever entered the mainstream. Originally targeted at creating biofuels, the technology was improved and expanded over the next several decades.
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By the early 2010s, the technology became focused primarily on the ingredients space.
In 2018 a market development unit opened in Bryan, Texas, enabling the production of highly pure acids derived from multiple feedstocks.
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Ara Partners, a leader in the push to decarbonize the global economy, acquired BioVeritas in 2021, with the intent of scaling up and commercializing BioVeritas' unique-to-the-world ingredients.
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With Ara Partner's support, BioVeritas is scaling up its market development unit and preparing for a commercial-scale facility, which is expected to be commissioned in 2025.
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Executive Team
Leadership Team
Board of Directors
DAVID AUSTGEN, CEO
"We will help decarbonize the global human & animal health industries and industrial materials spaces by delivering on a single promise -- to create a world where short- and medium-chain fatty acids are produced naturally with net zero emissions and without petrochemicals.​"
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