THE CHALLENGE
NATURAL
There must be better ways of moving towards sustainable, natural ingredients - cheaper and better organic food colorants and flavors; protein powders and flours with less environmental impact and nutrition for sports and wellbeing that is truly natural?
STRUGGLE
Why are we struggling to make urban and vertical agriculture a viable alternative to feed the billions of people living in our cities? Why are our options so limited when it comes to saving energy and improving yields and quality of our crops?
TRANSFORM
What is going to transform cellular agriculture (cell-based meat, fish, chicken and plants) into a key component of the food chain that it should be? What will it take to move cellular agriculture from early-stage innovation into a sustainable, huge food source?
THE SOLUTIONS
BYAS
C501
Natural blue phycocyanin-rich purified spirulina extract for approved food and beverage colorant applications.
BYAS
F601
Spirulina (algal) powder. The world’s low-odor, easily digested, long-shelf life Spirulina.
BYAS
F602
Growth factor - rich chlorella (algal) flour - truly natural (non-fermented, chlorophyll-free).
BYAS
A601
Plant growth booster/biostimulant for urban/vertical and general agriculture.
BYAS
CA101
Algae-base media and animal serum replacements for cellular agriculture. Available from Q4 2019
THE COMPANY
Back of the Yards Algae Sciences (BYAS) is a ‘circular economy’ company with a proprietary, integrated platform of microalgae-based solutions meeting urgent needs and fast growing demand in nutrition and agriculture (including cellular agriculture).
BYAS is proud to have been selected to participate in:
Kickstart Innovation - Switzerland
Kickstart bridges the gap between startups, corporates, cities, foundations and universities to accelerate deep tech innovation
Grow - Singapore
GROW is Singapore's first global foodtech and agtech accelerator
Based at The Plant in Chicago, BYAS has its own laboratories, production units, photobioreactors and access to a large anaerobic digester.
Urban algae-based circular economy model at The Plant, Chicago
