🌟 Thank you, Petra Stock at the The Guardian, for exploring the benefits of Sparxell’s technology. Our founders, Benjamin Droguet and Silvia Vignolini at the University of Cambridge, alongside Suzie Reichman and her team at the University of Melbourne, compared cellulose-based #glitter with synthetic alternatives. The teams demonstrated that conventional plastic glitter made from plastics and metals is significantly harmful to soil. While Sparxell's is not — should that really come as a surprise? There is an urgent need to protect our planet, and we can do so by choosing sustainable products over polluting #microplastics. 🌏 At Sparxell, we’ve developed a way to create vivid sparkles that are #plastic-free and non-toxic with our #bioinspired technology. Taylor Swift, let’s show the world how to shine sustainably! ✨ Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/g5tk3uYf #Innovation #Sustainability #Cellulose #GreenTech
About us
Sparxell develops the next generation of colours and effects by providing the world's first performance colourant from plant that is inspired by nature. Founded in 2023 as a spin-out of the University of Cambridge, Sparxell builds onto over a decade of academic research excellence on bioinspired technologies. Our mission is to eliminate toxic chemicals from colouration and provide businesses with sustainable, low-carbon and performant alternatives to traditional coloured materials. These include fine powders, pearls and glitter, films, foils and ribbons as well as special formats like sequins. Follow us to stay tuned as your brilliant journey is just unfolding.
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External link for Sparxell
- Industry
- Biotechnology Research
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Cambridge
- Type
- Self-Employed
- Founded
- 2022
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Cambridge, GB
Employees at Sparxell
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Nancy Floyd
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Nic Gorini
General Partner at Spin Ventures | Driving the Circular & Regenerative Economy in Consumer & Retail | Investor & Entrepreneur Focused on Climate Tech…
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Paul Foulkes-Arellano
Board Member • Non-Executive Director • Advisory • Co-Author "Materials & Sustainability" (Routledge) • Currently writing "The Future of Footwear"
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Tianheng Zhao PhD
Head of R&D at Sparxell
Updates
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💄 Meet us at the SEPAWA Congress in Berlin on 16-18 October! We are excited to exhibit at one of Europe's most significant shows for #cosmetics, personal care, and fragrance industries. ✨ See, touch, and feel how our plant-based pigments, pearls, and glitters can elevate cosmetic formulations with high-performance, vivid, and #sustainable colours and effects. We're thrilled to showcase the latest breakthroughs from our lab at SEPAWA, redefining cosmetic pigments and how to achieve stunning effects without synthetic or mined materials. 📍 Come along to Booth G924. Our commercial team Simon Kew and Arianna Andrews, CSE will welcome you to our world of natural colours and look forward to forging new partnerships for the future of #beauty. To book a time in advance, please use the following link: https://lnkd.in/gSCMfQQk #Innovation #CleanBeauty #Wellness #Pigments
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👀 Startups to watch 👀 Thank you Cassie Doherty, investment director at Parkwalk Advisors, for naming Sparxell as a startup to watch! We are proud to be featured in Sifted alongside other innovative #Cambridge-based startups developing technology for the #future. Kudos to Nyobolt, another spinout from the University of Cambridge Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, for making the shortlist. #Nature-inspired is the way to go! 🌍 🔗 Read the full list here: https://bit.ly/3BIqBgp #sustainable #cellulose #innovation #investment #yaynewtech
11 Cambridge startups to watch, according to investors
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🗽 Excited to have taken part in #ClimateWeekNYC for the first time – and what a great first! Invited by the brilliant Sian Sutherland from PlasticFree.com, Sparxell concluded the NYU Langone Health scientific summit on a colourful note, presenting solutions alongside successful material innovators Amir Afshar (Shellworks), Luke Haverhals (NFW), Aleks Gosiewski (Keel Labs) and Dr. Manasa Mantravadi, showcasing the future of #toxicfree materials. 🪸 In conversation with Sarah McInerney from The Biomimicry Institute, Earthshot Prize finalist Pierre-Yves Paslier (Notpla) and change-maker Mahak Agrawal, I discussed how #biomimicry and #plant-based innovations shape a prosperous and resilient future for us all. I have been honoured to be presented by Léonie Weerakoon from Kinetik, Blue Planet Alliance and Peace Boat US on the side of the #UN General Assembly #ScienceSummit. 🌊 Meeting with Parley for the Oceans' team, fellow innovators Julia Marsh (Sway) and Christophe Cappon (NUVI), I felt empowered by the wise words of marine biologist Sylvia Earle to support change and make the world a better place with Sparxell. 🎙️ It was also great to catch up with Jonathan Azoff from SNØCAP during a panel presented by The Nordic Council of Ministers and The Nordic Council on bridging the climate investment gap from the get-go. Taking part in inspirational discussions with old and new friends, I really felt like Sparxell is contributing to this desirable future we all want to live in, as a key enabler of the #circular #regenerative #bioeconomy. 🍀 👉 To unfold this future with us, just reach out. #Futureproof #GlobalResilience #ScienceSummitUNGA #Innovation #NYCW #Sustainability #Cellulose #Pigment #Colourant Credit photos: Léonie Weerakoon and Thomasine Dolan Dow
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Circular Economy and Sustainability Strategy Consultant (certified Circulab), Lecturer, Trainer & Project Manager
If you’ve ever asked yourself any of the following three questions, then episode 59 of the #UnboxingYourPackaging podcast is for you! ❓ How can you eliminate #toxicity and #waste from your facilities and products? ❓ How can you uncover value and opportunities in the threats and challenges you face, from material extraction and processing to disposal? ❓ What do you still need to learn to truly embrace a shift toward a more #CircularEconomy? We’re diving into these questions with my guest, Paul Foulkes-Arellano, co-author of the book “Materials & Sustainability: Building A Circular Future”. 📖 If books open windows to the world, then let’s leaf through one that reveals a new view of #sustainable #materials and #manufacturing. Together, ✅ we unpacked the meaning of #sustainability ; ✅ we compared terms like #virginmaterials vs. #wastematerials, #procurement vs. #management, #carbonemissions vs. #watercrisis, and many others that shed light on crucial issues ; ✅ and we brought fresh perspectives, even starting with some thought-provoking quotes. As you’ll see, we approached this content with the playful curiosity of children jumping into a pile of colorful leaves, leaving you to grab the one idea that resonates most. ➡️ This interview is perfect for kicking off #CircularEconomyMonth and fueling key ideas for action! Enjoy listening ▶️ https://lnkd.in/gDM_-QTE Little wink to ⭐ Julia Freer Goldstein, the other co-author of the book; ⭐ Ana Beatriz Alves of tocco: Paul is answering the burning question you formulated in episode 57; ⭐ ReStalk, Musthad and Sparxell in which Paul has an active role; ⭐ and Jan Dell from The Last Beach Cleanup, because you are Paul’s heroes and are among the interviewees in the book. #PackagingPodcast Look4Loops #CircularPackaging #SustainablePackaging
Episode #59: No more waste and toxicity: Unlocking value in sustainable materials and manufacturing — Look 4 Loops
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🎨 Thank you to the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt RESPOND programme for highlighting our commitment to creating better ways to colour our world, using nature as inspiration. 🌍 #sustainable #cellulose #science #innovation #yaynewtech
SOLUTION SATURDAY 09 Say goodbye to synthetic colorants! 🌈 Sparxell leads the change in revolutionizing the colorant industry by developing the world’s first bioinspired colorants from plants. Founder Benjamin Droguet explains how their innovation exploits the self-assembly properties of cellulose to create helicoidal structure that produce vibrant structural colors. 👇 #Color #Innovation #Sparkle #Disrupt #HowWillYouRespond #Founder #StartUp
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🦋 Big thank you to The Biomimicry Institute for capturing the essence of what we do and our impact in this explanatory video – from the science driving Sparxell’s process to the essential role it plays in #protecting our ecosystems. 🫗 Synthetic colourants and chemicals cause serious environmental harm, with 1.5m tonnes of dyes and microplastics entering the environment every year from their use in textiles. Sparxell’s solution harnesses the power of #biomimicry to transform the building block of plants into vibrant colours, leveraging nature’s beauty for what it does best. 🌍 Change is needed in the industry to protect our planet. Sparxell was the proud winner of the Biomimicry Institute’s Ray of Hope Prize last year and we are excited to be part of this fantastic ecosystem spearheading positive change using nature as inspiration. #Structural #Cellulose #Sustainability #Technology #Innovation #YayNewTech
Plant-Based Alternatives to Toxic Colorants
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Academic and research bodies in the East of England are producing record billions for the UK economy, with the Cambridge Cluster to the fore. Drilling down to funding raised by Cambridge companies with institutional links alone, a staggering $1.35 billion has been harvested by pioneering corporate innovators in the last 12 months. Business Weekly’s ‘Brain Gain’ research focuses on money raised by Cambridge technology and life science game changers with roots in academic and institutional research organisations such as the University of Cambridge, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge Judge Business School and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB). Two particularly large transactions from Cambridge companies with relevant links stand out from the last 12 months – the $555 million harvested on Nasdaq in the US by Bicycle Therapeutics in May and the $300m raise that swept Quantinuum to multi-unicorn status in January. Bicycle’s technology arose from research at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge. Quantinuum was originally known as Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) and was founded in 2014 through the University of Cambridge Judge Business School’s ‘Accelerate Cambridge’ programme. Other Cambridge companies contributing to the $1.35bn total include Apollo Therapeutics, Cambridge Mechatronics Ltd, CellCentric, Echion Technologies, ExpressionEdits, GraphEnergyTech, Healx, Immaterial, Mission Therapeutics, Nu Quantum , Prospectral, Psyomics, Quotient Therapeutics, Riverlane, Sano Genetics, Sparxell, T-Therapeutics Ltd, Vianautis, VividQ, Xampla and Zetta Genomics Ltd. Full article – https://lnkd.in/eikM5wHR
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👋 You said #clean #beauty? Well, it’s time to welcome metal and plastic alternatives in cosmetics. Sparxell bio-inspired pigments have been featured in the latest #Ingredients #trends report from Cosmetics & Toiletries! 🌈 Our cleaner and greener plant-based products deliver vivid yet durable colours without synthetic or mined materials. Read the full report below to know more.
INGREDIENT #TRENDS REPORT: How quickly is the beauty industry #swapping out #cosmeticingredients that some flag as “problematic”? It depends. 🔄 For instance, a Kline + Company report noted that, while #cyclicsilicones are generally being “formulated out of #skincare,” their performance has made them more difficult to replace in AP/deo applications. 🤔 Those #cost concerns could linger, the report notes, because persistently high personal care ingredient costs have been sustained due to expenses such as logistics, labor and energy. 🧑🏻🏭 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gVfxrJa8 Companies mentioned: Kline + Company Glossier, Inc. Symrise Cosmetic Ingredients Apoena Biotech Sabinsa Corporation Ingredion Incorporated ROELMI HPC - Società benefit Croda Beauty Sparxell Lygos Micro Powders, Inc. Applechem - A Solabia Group Company dsm-firmenich Solabia Cosmetics Syensqo SPATE TikTok LipoTrue TRI-K Industries Sino Lion USA Global Cosmetic Industry Spectra Colors Corp Mintel Melt&Marble Hydrosome Labs LLC SNF Nordic Bioproducts Group Ltd
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🏆 Sparxell has been selected as a Finalist for the Falling Walls Foundation’s Science Breakthrough of the Year! Every year, on the Fall of the Berlin Wall anniversary, the Falling Walls Foundation brings together leaders from #science and society to foster dialogues around solutions to the greatest contemporary challenges humanity faces. 🔊 As part of the #ScienceSummit24, which showcases the most exciting scientific #innovations, the Science Start-ups category curates #innovative start-ups from all over the world that have translated #breakthrough scientific discoveries into promising businesses. We are thrilled to see our #sustainable #bioinspired colour technology standing out and being recognised by such a prestigious organisation. 🍃 We look forward to spreading the word about our impact. If you have time, why don’t you join the conversation... Bis bald Berlin! #Cellulose #Pigment #YayNewTech #GlobalCall24 #FallingWallsVenture