Arda Biomaterials

Earlier this year we welcomed the BBC into the Arda lab to film a short documentary about our first innovation, New Grain — a leather alternative made from waste brewery grain protein. 🌾 🍻 🐄 I am happy to share that the clip is now publicly available on YouTube (including hilarious comments about my scarf 🙈) — hope you enjoy! A big thanks to Sammy Fry for making the introduction, Kernel Brewery for providing our grain, and Lara Lewington & Yasmin Morgan-Griffiths from the BBC for their work on filming and bringing it all together. https://lnkd.in/eHFx-s_e

** Internship Alert ** Passionate about science and sustainability? We're seeking an R&D intern to join our team in Bermondsey, London for a 10-week paid internship and help us develop innovative, plastic-free and animal-free leather from beer waste! Fill the form: https://lnkd.in/eCFaMd6a and be part of the Arda Biomaterials team! #biomaterials #internship #sustainability #science #laboratory #technician #beerwaste TJ Edward Mitchell Brett Cotten Jess Redgrave Dan J. Whitaker Alice Hann Oscar Berger Michela Puglia

I'm an avid podcast listener, though haven't sought to record many. 🎙 But when Ryan Grant Little invited me to be on his "Another Climate Podcast" and after listening to some of his previous guests (Speedinvest, The Good Food Institute, Nate Crosser, Nathan Paumier, Arkeon, Arman Anatürk, and many others) I knew it'd be a great chat! You can listen below on Spotify or Apple. Ryan and I discuss: 👜 Biomaterials innovation, and specifically in leather-like materials 🌾 Arda Biomaterials' first product, New Grain, and its new approach 🐄 How leather is a co-product and cows are poor "technology stacks" 🍺 "Crafting" local supply chains with breweries and whisky distilleries 🎡 And how the UK is a great place to build a science company Thank you Ryan for having me on, and a special cheers to our wonderful investors at Satgana for introducing us. Listen on Spotify 🎧 https://lnkd.in/d-3Y2N_J or Apple 🍏 https://lnkd.in/dPa5g9NR

🎥 Arda Biomaterials' clip in BBC's technology and innovation show, BBC Click, is now available to watch on BBC iPlayer (starting at time mark 19:35). You can see a bit behind the scenes with TJ, myself, and the Arda team. A big thank you to Lara Lewington and Yasmin Morgan-Griffiths for visiting us to share what we're driven to deliver at Arda – animal and plastic-free materials with a true path to scale in fashion, automotive, and other sectors. To Kernel Brewery in London for letting us come around to film, and to Sammy Fry leading up the Tech Nation Climate program for introducing us. It was very cool to have our first video clip come out. Many cheers! 🍻 https://lnkd.in/e6Mkb2yB

Arda Biomaterials has won Cleantech Startup of the Year for London in the UK StartUp Awards! Now we compete against the other regional winners for the UK-wide title, which will surely be fierce competition. Looking forward! A big thank you to those who have supported us and followed our journey the past couple of years, with a particular thank you to our stellar investors and the Arda team who I'm really proud to work alongside. And a special one for my co-founder, TJ Edward Mitchell. We're just getting started on our mission to transform waste into scalable, animal-free & plastic-free biomaterials (starting by working with breweries and whisky distilleries). Cheers for what is to come! 🍻

Today is an important day in the #climatetech calendar, #EarthDay. EARTHDAY.ORG raises awareness and inspires change across the world to protect the earth for generations to come. This year's theme is #PlanetVsPlastic, demanding a 60% reduction in the production of all plastics by 2040. With this theme in mind, we're delighted to shine a light on Arda Biomaterials, a young innovative company who we invested in last year. Arda is on a mission to transform waste barley grain from the beer brewing industry into a leather alternative that is entirely #plastic and animal free.... suitable for applications in fashion, home goods, automotive, and various other industries. Read more about their journey so far here: https://bit.ly/3Jtn8mF #EndPlastics #EndPlasticPollution #Ardabiomaterials #sustainablematerials #leatheralternative Brett Cotten TJ Edward Mitchell

Yesterday, Brett Cotten, the Arda Biomaterials team, and I had the amazing privilege of hosting Lara Lewington & Yasmin Morgan-Griffiths from the BBC for the filming of Click — a programme that explores up-and-coming technologies. For the camera we show some brewery action, science at work, and the end result, our animal & plastic-free leather-like material, New Grain. A big thank you to Tech Nation, and in particular Sammy Fry for making the connection, and a big cheers to The Kernel Brewery 🍻 for allowing us to film some of your brewing magic and to collect your spent grain. We'll share the online version of the clip once it's out!

Our first big media piece (link below)! Fast Company published a story on Arda Biomaterials written by green journalist Maeve Campbell. 🌾 A big thank you to Maeve for coming to visit us on the Beer Mile in South London, snapping pictures, and for writing up this piece. 🍻 The whole team are really excited to see Arda's first big feature, and the work to transform brewery & whisky spent grain into next-gen materials (scalable + animal & plastic-free) continues. https://lnkd.in/eb_R-xJN