EveryCarbon

This week, Leonie Rominger, Patrick Schweizer and Matteo Cociancich headed to Berlin for the SPRIN-D mentoring sessions! We’re excited to be back to reconnect with the other teams, exchange ideas and dive into another round of expert guidance that helps us push our work forward. SPRIND - Bundesagentur für Sprunginnovationen has created an incredible space for honest conversations and real problem-solving and we’re grateful to have the chance to come back and build on that momentum. Huge thanks to the team behind it, including Patrick P. R., Tobias Doelle and Marcia Holst for building such a supportive space and to mentors such as Sakura Holloway, Georg Lentzen and Mike Schultz who keep challenging our thinking in the best way. We're enjoying connecting with familiar and new faces, exchanging updates and hearing what everyone has been working on over the past months.

Have you ever wondered why EveryCarbon focuses on the production of solvents? Solvents are the hidden champions of modern chemistry, enabling paints to flow, coatings to level, adhesives to cure, and formulations to stay stable. They’re everywhere, yet rarely discussed. What often surprises people: because solvents make up such a large share of formulation volume in coatings, inks, and adhesives, they are one of the primary drivers of material cost. Top of the List are adhesives with up to 70%. Globally, the industry produces over 30 million tonnes of solvents every year, with an upward trend. When a material is this widely used and represents such a large share of product cost, even small improvements become major levers, economically and environmentally. But despite this importance, the solvent system we rely on is still rooted in fossil-based chemistry and that model is reaching its limits. Why the current solvent system is struggling and how EveryCarbon is creating the next generation of solvent molecules from waste carbon? More to come soon!

On Thursday, our CEO Sebastian Beblawy will be pitching EveryCarbon at Tech Tour Bio-based Industries 2025 in Wuppertal, joining Europe’s leading innovators in the bio-based transition. Tech Tour brings together Europe’s leading bio-based ventures, investors, and industrial players — an ideal platform to showcase how our approach bridges waste treatment and material production. From mixed waste to high-performance materials, we’re demonstrating that waste treatment and material manufacturing can be the same thing. If you’re attending, let’s connect and exchange ideas on building the next generation of bio-based industries. #EveryCarbon #WasteToValue #Biotech

🎉 One Year Anniversary of EveryCarbon One year ago, EveryCarbon was still a science project at Hamburg University of Technology — a bold idea with a small team and a big question: Can we turn the messiest forms of organic waste into something useful, scalable, and meaningful? Today, we’re celebrating one year as an independent company — a spin-out that has grown from lab benches to an operational mini-plant, running on real-world waste streams. In just 12 months: ✔️ Our team grew from 3 to 10 brilliant minds. ✔️ We secured €2.5 million in non-dilutive funding. ✔️ We achieved 160 days of continuous operation on sewage sludge — proving that even the hardest-to-handle waste can become a reliable feedstock. It’s been a year of learning, persistence, and turning setbacks into breakthroughs. And we couldn’t have done it without the people who believed in us — our mentors Johannes Gescher, Sanne Melles, Sakura Holloway, Dr. Andreas Worberg, Andreas Heyl, Mike Schultz, Alex Patist, Sarah Richardson, our research, feedstock and material partners, and the incredible SPRIND - Bundesagentur für Sprunginnovationen team: Patrick P. Rose, Tobias Doelle, Sebastian Berns, Nicolas Krink, Marcia Holst, Jano Costard. This is, of course, only the beginning. The next chapter is already in the making — stay tuned for our newest project together with Jürgen Schmidtke and the Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart.

After the exciting news on entering stage 3 of SPRIND's Circular Biomanufacturing challenge, we’re continuing to introduce the people who made this possible. This time, it’s about someone who has been with EveryCarbon almost since the beginning — and whose impact you’ve likely seen more often than you realize. 👋 Meet Nina, one of the earliest members of EveryCarbon (introduced by Sebastian). Nina joined us right after finishing her Bachelor’s thesis and quickly became one of the load-bearing pillars of our lab development. From long experimental days to unexpected hurdles — she faced each challenge with a calm resilience that kept the team moving forward. What stands out about Nina is her mindset: she shakes off setbacks like they’re raindrops — probably something Holly, her dog, taught her. She focuses on solutions instead of problems and brings a light-hearted energy that lifts everyone around her. When she’s not in the lab, you’ll probably find her exploring new places — with a perfect 1:1 balance of beach and city — or painting stunning pieces that often end up decorating her home. That creative spark found its way into her work too, when she started managing our social media. So, if you’ve enjoyed our posts so far — that’s Nina’s touch.   She’ll now take a short hiatus for her Master’s program, and while we’ll miss her presence deeply, we can’t wait for her return.

Grateful for the trust and support from SPRIND and proud to stand alongside such bold innovators. Entering Stage 3 marks a huge step forward for EveryCarbon — from building our first mini-plant to proving that real, mixed waste streams can fuel chemical manufacturing. Now, we’re gearing up for 180 days of continuous operation and the first market-ready materials from our platform. Excited to show how we can make every carbon count.

Big news from EveryCarbon: we’re moving into the third round of the SPRIND Circular Biomanufacturing Challenge! 🎉 This next chapter comes with €2.5 million in funding, to fully deploy our mini-plant, and allows us to advance our product portfolio towards bio-better solutions for construction and solvent applications made from organic wastes. Of course, this is only possible thanks to herculean effort by our entire team and our fantastic partners and the incredible people around us. A huge thank you to our partners at Technische Universität Hamburg: Gescher's Lab of Technical Microbiology - TUHH, IUE, Institute for Thermal Separation Processes, Universität Hamburg - the University of Hamburg’s Institute for Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, IMDEA Energy, Fraunhofer IPA, LFKW Büsnau, and Valensina GmbH for joining forces with us on this journey. And to our working students, for the fantastic work you’re doing, whether in the lab, on-site at our mini-plant in Büsnau, or supporting business development: Varun Hirapara, Viktoria, Talha Sabri, Merjam, and Esther Frech, as well as our alumni Tjark Thedens and Jan Maarten Braack — you’ve each left a mark in the EveryCarbon heart. Now we’re more than ready to take the next steps, scaling the foundation for truly circular materials. ♻️ To everyone at SPRIND - Bundesagentur für Sprunginnovationen: we’re thrilled and grateful to have you with us for the year ahead!

When talking about food waste your head will most likely produce images of piles of uneaten food or maybe a composter where it is rotting away. But a harder to crack nut is waste streams of dissolved carbon. Often they come from cleaning processes or occur so infrequent that a dedicated infrastructure is not feasible. When producing fruit juices, there are also carbon-containing wastewater streams or residues, but it is quite hard to predict when they occur. 🍎🍊🏭 👉 At EveryCarbon, we can transform these side streams into circular, future-fit materials with a much higher value contribution compared to processes like biogas production. That’s why we’re excited to announce our new collaboration with Valensina GmbH! Together, we’re exploring how juice production side streams can be processed in our platform technology — showing that even what starts as “waste” can become a building block for a truly circular economy. 💡 Our vision: To complement existing recycling pathways with innovative solutions that unlock new potential and make circularity more robust. #EveryCarbon #Valensina #Partnership #CircularEconomy #WasteToValue #Sustainability

🚀 We couldn’t agree more! 👏 At EveryCarbon, flexibility is key: whether it’s wastewater, food manufacturing residues, or now TUHH Mensa leftovers, our platform is built to handle diverse, irregular organic waste streams and turn them into future-fit materials.