Midori Renewables ^Company

Midori is a Flagship VentureLabs™ company globally deploying its innovative carbohydrate science technology platform for transformative impact in Health and Renewables. Health: Midori is pioneering a range of new functional and nutritive food ingredients, GlycoFibers, to replace high-calorie sugar/starches in food with low-calorie, healthy fibers, with the potential to have a massive impact in a range of disease areas including obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular health. GlycoFibers also have applications as therapies for a range of microbiome related diseases. Renewables: Midori's Breaking the Biomass Barrier™ technology melts and digests biomass into sugars with a solid, recyclable catalyst at low-cost. This breakthrough technology overcomes the limitations of biomass conversion technologies and has already been shown to be effective on a variety of biomass feedstocks. Applications for low-cost sugar production include biofuels production and industrial chemicals fermentation feed. Midori's catalyst also converts sugars into high-value chemicals which can serve as intermediates for a range of formerly petroleum-derived substances, including plastics.