Geltor is a cellular agriculture company located in San Leandro, California and founded in 2015 by Alex Lorestani and Nick Ouzounov. They make essential proteins, such as collagen and gelatin, using microbes in their own bio-fermentation recombinant protein production facility. They specialize in making, designing, and building proteins that are made to texturize consumer products.
Collume is Geltor's collagen product that is sustainably manufactured in the lab using microbes and biofermentation. The making of Collume uses zero animal inputs and is a low-weight soluble peptide that has tunable anti-aging properties.
Gelor's first product to go on the market was animal-free collagen. Their collagen is grown in the lab through the bio-fermentation of microbes. Geltor claims they can produce collagen with desirable properties for their customers by controlling the proteins and proteins ratios present in their gelatin products.
Geltor grew jellyfish collagen in their lab using microbes with genes extracted from jellyfish cells to make the proteins necessary to make the world first animal-free leather bound book. This was the first leather product made by Geltor, and the leather bound book sold on Ebay for $12,790 on January 22, 2018.
The company only made one leather bound book to demonstrate what is possible with their technology although making leather products out of lab grown collagen may have a future, CEO of Geltor Alex Lorestani, told reporters that "Jellyfish collagen is flexible but firm, like bovine leather, and it can be made in a liquid-like solution to be formed into whatever shape Geltor wants."
On February 1, 2016 Geltor closed out their seed funding round raising $2,300,000. Investors include: Stray Dog Capital, SOSV, New Crop Capital, Fifty Years, FTW Ventures, and Baruch Future Ventures.
On October 25, 2018 Geltor closed their Series A funding round, raising $18.2 million. The round was led by Cultivan Sandbox Ventures.
Patents
Expression of proteins in gram-negative bacteria wherein the ratio of periplasmic volume to cytoplasmic volume is between 0.5:1 and 10:1
Pending
3/29/2016
Timeline
Geltor closed their Series A, raising $18.2 million. The round was led by Cultivian Sandbox Ventures. Other investors include GELITA, ADM Ventures, Cavallo Ventures, and Box Group.
On February 1, 2016 Geltor closed out their seed funding round raising $2,300,000. Investors include: Stray Dog Capital, SOSV, New Crop Capital, Fifty Years, FTW Ventures, and Baruch Future Ventures.
Geltor was founded in 2015 by Alex Lorestani and Nick Ouzounov.
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Further Resources
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Building the Next Generation of Recombinant Proteins: an Interview with Alex Lorestani of Geltor - IndieBio
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August 6, 2016
Demo Day Pitch - Discovery Category - Geltor
January 9, 2018
Geltor raises $18.2m, gears up for 2020 launch of animal-free collagen proteins for the food industry
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