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Last week we hosted a panel discussion bringing Deep Tech founders and entrepreneurs together with synthetic biology PhD students from Imperial College London, UCL and The University of Manchester to discuss commercialising engineering biology. Led by Lucy McGowan, students also had the opportunity to learn about the Science Creates ecosystem and take a tour of our state-of-the-art Old Market incubator. It was brilliant to work with the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in BioDesign Engineering on this event as part of its annual retreat, supporting its mission to train and empower the next generation of leaders in this rapidly growing field. A massive thank you to all our panelists for sharing their insights and advice on breaking into the startup world, it was great to see the room so engaged in each of your individual journeys and motivations:  ▪️Arne Scott from Dimension Biotechnologies ▪️Veronica Greco from CDotBio ▪️Marcos Villeda Hernandez from PhotoClear ▪️Bethany Eldridge from neo-fossil We look forward to seeing what’s next for these future innovators! #DeepTech #EngBio #SynBio #startups

Congratulations to Science Creates member and Accelerate graduate neo-fossil for securing a spot in Phase 2 of remove’s Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) startup accelerator programme for Cohort 7. From an initial 20 Europe-based startups in Phase 1, neo-fossil was one of just eight impressive CDR companies selected for its innovative approach to using engineering biology to harvest atmospheric carbon dioxide into new fossils, storing these emissions for centuries. As a result, the climate biotech pioneer will now receive a further five months of tailored support covering specific CDR and entrepreneurship challenges such as policy insights, life cycle assessment, fundraising strategies and IP management. We look forward to seeing the continued growth of the neo-fossil team throughout this second phase as they push the boundaries of CDR innovation. #DeepTech #EngBio #climatetech #startups 

We are stoked to welcome Penny Dray to the neo-fossil team, who is working with us during the Nucleate UK Eco Track Accelerator Programme 🎉 Penny is a talented Bioprocessing Engineer (and Techno Economic Assessment wizard) with an entrepreneurial flair, currently completing her MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise at the University of Cambridge. Let the Biotech nerding-out commence down at neo-fossil HQ 🤓 ...

We are very excited to be continuing our journey with remove. The mentorship and expert insights have been critical to our continued growth as a Carbon Dioxide Removal company. Congratulations to Artio, Atmosfuture Limited, Bloomineral, Kumo, Nina.Energy, Octavia Carbon, SuperDAC (Silvia Pugliese) - we're hopeful for the impact we could all have on the growing CDR field!

Over the past 10 weeks, it’s again been a privilege to work with a talented group of 20 European early-stage #carbonremoval #startups, each joining our remove Foundations program with loads of drive and ambition. And again, it's been a tough challenge to make the cut down to the 8 most promising ones together with our jury. Congrats on the ones that made it to the second phase, Leap: Artio Kumo Nina.Energy SuperDAC Bloomineral Atmosfuture Limited neo-fossil Octavia Carbon Regardless of the outcome, all startups remain part of our remove community, and we look forward to staying connected and supporting each other beyond the program! Stay tuned for more on this!

2024 Christmas wrap-up 🎁   Down at team neo-fossil, ‘tis been the season of tree-mendous growth. Before we put up our feet with a mug of mulled wine, here’s a wrap-up of some highlights from the past few months: 🎁 Bethany Eldridge joins Joshua full-time as a Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer. 🎄We finished the Bethnal Green Ventures' The Tech For Good Programme. 🤶We joined the Carbon Dioxide Removal accelerator program, remove. 🎅We’ve been nominated for the The Earthshot Prize 2025 by the The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys. 🎁 We’ve engaged with some policy makers and eminent scientists – a particular highlight was presenting to Lord Patrick Vallance (Minister for Science in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology) who subsequently appeared at the House of Lords’ enquiry on engineering biology, pulling out neo-fossil as an exciting application of engineering biology! 🎄We were spotlighted in Sifted in “16 Bristol-based startups to watch, according to investors”. A big thank you to everyone who has helped us steer this ship thus far (or shape the genetic code, for you EngBio nerds), here’s to sleighing 2025…

2024 Christmas wrap-up 🎁   Down at team neo-fossil, ‘tis been the season of tree-mendous growth. Before we put up our feet with a mug of mulled wine, here’s a wrap-up of some highlights from the past few months: 🎁 Bethany Eldridge joins Joshua full-time as a Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer. 🎄We finished the Bethnal Green Ventures' The Tech For Good Programme. 🤶We joined the Carbon Dioxide Removal accelerator program, remove. 🎅We’ve been nominated for the The Earthshot Prize 2025 by the The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys. 🎁 We’ve engaged with some policy makers and eminent scientists – a particular highlight was presenting to Lord Patrick Vallance (Minister for Science in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology) who subsequently appeared at the House of Lords’ enquiry on engineering biology, pulling out neo-fossil as an exciting application of engineering biology! 🎄We were spotlighted in Sifted in “16 Bristol-based startups to watch, according to investors”. A big thank you to everyone who has helped us steer this ship thus far (or shape the genetic code, for you EngBio nerds), here’s to sleighing 2025…

We are super grateful to have been nominated for the 2025 The Earthshot Prize by the The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys! 🥳

Thank you to Cath at SCVC for spotlighting us in Sifted! We are very proud to be part of Bristol's growing deep tech ecosystem :)

We've recently polled VCs for the startups to watch in London (https://lnkd.in/ev-_qzc9), Cambridge (https://lnkd.in/en8DycPR) and Oxford (https://lnkd.in/e5cVvewM), and earlier this week Kai Nicol-Schwarz dropped the startups they've got their eye on in Bristol. Among the companies named: 🇬🇧 neo-fossil — which is engineering bacteria to capture and store atmospheric CO2, creating a sustainable compound that mimics plant fossils. 🇬🇧 Zero Point Motion — which is building miniaturised sensors for motion detection in small devices, known as chipscale optical inertial sensors. It says its sensors are 100x more sensitive than those available in smartphones. 🇬🇧 FluoretiQ Limited — which is building diagnostics tech that can identify specific infections faster than traditional lab tests and measure the effectiveness of different antibiotics in fighting them, reducing antibiotic misuse You can read the full list below 👇 https://lnkd.in/eZxNG_XZ Catherine Fletcher | SCVC | Harry Alexander | QantX | Matt Penneycard | Ada Ventures | Julian Dennard | Mercia Ventures | Johnathan Matlock | Empirical Ventures