Searo Labs

🪸 Searo Labs at Packaging Innovations 2025! 🌿 We were absolutely thrilled to exhibit in the start-up zone at Packaging Innovations 2025, showcasing our innovative, 100% natural, seaweed-based materials! 🌊 From condiment sachets to laundry pods, we're redefining packaging with sustainable solutions that are plastic-free and meet key product requirements. 💡 We loved engaging with everyone who stopped by our stand and seeing their excitement about our plastic-free materials that can go beyond the product properties of plastic to enhance user experiences and reduce waste through food shelf-life extension. 🤝 The future of sustainable packaging is bright, and we can't wait to further these exciting conversations and collaborations! 🚀 The future of packaging is here, and it’s plastic-free 🌱 #SearoLabs #SustainableFuture #StartUpInnovation #SeaweedMaterials #PlasticFree Ayca Dundar Francis Field Oliver Shasha PA Consulting FoodLabs Happiness Capital | Certified B Corp Packaging Innovations & Empack

🥂 Happy New Year from Searo Labs! 🎉 Here’s how we made waves over the last year and why we’re so excited for the year ahead 🌊 A few of our highlights: 🪸 Over 4.2km of seaweed film produced for pilots with leading brands ✨ Innovating like never before – launching novel materials and new products to tackle the plastic problem head-on 🤝 Teaming up with PA Consulting to scale our impact and bring our sustainable solutions to even more industries 🚀 And much more.... Having made our new year’s resolutions (some exciting milestones ahead!) we can’t wait to achieve even more in 2025 🌍✨ Ayca Dundar Francis Field Nicolaus Norden Till Hoelzer Eric Ng Terrence Giang Josh Wade Steven Clarke Matthew Higham Tom Day David Russell Happiness Capital | Certified B Corp FoodLabs PA Consulting

Searo goes to Tokyo 🛫🇯🇵 Last week we launched our presence in Japan by showcasing our products at events on the Global Future of Foodtech and Material Science 🌱🧬 Our founders Ayca and Francis met with Japanese business leaders, investors and key stakeholders to discuss how Searo Labs can provide technology solutions to enable Japan to lead the way in eliminating plastic pollution and food waste 💪 Our time in Tokyo was a unique opportunity to showcase how Searo Labs is leading the way with our groundbreaking natural polymer materials 🔬🪸, and to gather valuable feedback from key industry decision-makers on the best strategies for introducing our products and technologies to Japan. Soshite arigatō 🙏 to Happiness Capital | Certified B Corp for inviting us to such an amazing series of events and to their partners Digital Garage Open Network Lab ESG Fund and GOLDEN EGG Ventures for their hospitality and support throughout Kanpai 🥂 to fellow pioneering businesses that attended the events with us: Better Dairy Formo GOZEN Infinite Roots® Plantopia Bio. Redefine Meat TômTex Inc. Xias Bio We can’t wait to return in 2025 🎉 and look forward to continuing to forge strong connections in Japan towards our shared ambition to build sustainable food systems through material innovation -- Mata chikaiuchini o ai shimashou! 😉 Terrence Giang Eric Ng Aki Yamazaki Christy NG Yoshiro Tasaka Katsuaki Usami Rena Kaneko Josh Wade Mark Chan Allan Chan Denes Ban Christophe Maire Till Hoelzer FoodLabs #HappinessCapital #PortfolioWeek #FoodTech #MaterialScience #Plasticfree #Innovation #Sustainability #Tokyo

Our Co-Founder, Francis, has been in Barcelona at Norrsken Impact/Week where he took part in a panel discussion alongside Till Hoelzer (FoodLabs) and Zac Austin (Pacifico Biolabs) on the topic of “Biotech breakthroughs creating the food industry of tomorrow” 💡🧬🍅 Francis shared how Searo’s seaweed-based 🪸materials can extend product shelf-life by >80%, tackling the 1/3 of food that is wasted today, whilst avoiding the high socio-economic costs of plastic 🌳✅ Whether it was a question of scaling new biotech within existing infrastructure or operating within an increasingly unpredictable environment, it was evident that we’re at an exciting moment in overhauling our food industry for the better 🚀 The challenges facing the food industry are only set to grow, but through innovation we can deliver solutions that protect our bodies and the planet ❤️🌎 #Biotech #FoodTech #SustainableFuture #NorrskenImpactWeek #Innovation Ayca Dundar Francis Field Nicolaus Norden Julius Strauss Simon Lohmann FoodLabs Eric Ng Josh Wade Happiness Capital | Certified B Corp

🚀 We’re thrilled to unveil our dynamic new website! ➡ https://searolabs.com/ 💥 Explore our new products, innovations, and learn more about our mission to replace plastic 🌱 🪸 Our new site represents the latest phase of our brand roll out, encapsulating our values, motivation, and vision 🔭 Searo® Technology is more than film – we’re breaking barriers with versatile materials like cups, adhesives, foam and even leather, all made from our hero ingredient: seaweed 🌊 At Searo Labs, we believe real change happens when people come together with a shared goal. Our backgrounds in science, engineering, design, and industry drive us to eliminate plastic for the good of humans and nature 🌍️ 👀 Head to our new website and see what we’ve been up to! #SustainableInnovation #SeaweedTech #PlasticFreeFuture #NewWebsite Ayca Dundar Francis Field Happiness Capital | Certified B Corp FoodLabs PA Consulting Nicolaus Norden Eric Ng Josh Wade Tom Day Steven Clarke Matthew Higham

Take a sneak peek behind the scenes at Searo Labs 👀 🎬 We're thrilled to announce that the Searo Labs website is launching soon! 🎉 We've been hard at work behind the scenes 🎥, collaborating with brilliant creatives to bring our vision to life 🌱 ✨ In preparation of our website launch, we wanted to share a sneak peek innovative projects at Searo Labs as we continue to work on our material innovations 🧬 🔗 Stay tuned for updates! #WebsiteLaunch #BehindTheScenes #SearoLabs #CreativeCollaboration #InnovationInAction #ComingSoon #DesignAndTech #CreativeAgency Ayca Dundar Francis Field Happiness Capital | Certified B Corp FoodLabs Mingduo Mu Oliver Shasha João Louçano William Winson-Pearce David Orbell Monica Miranda Mugica Georgie Lorenzen Rhys Williams

Our Co-Founder Ayca Dundar gave a talk, together with Tom Day and Josh Wade, at an incredible event hosted by our investor Happiness Capital | Certified B Corp and the Lee Kum Kee family in Bhutan 🇧🇹 where we showcased our sustainable material innovations 🌱 Did you know that more than 60% of Bhutan's land is covered by forests 🌳, they have achieved what most of the world is still striving for: it’s carbon negative. This is a nation that places sustainability and happiness at the heart of everything it does, even going so far as to measure Gross National Happiness 😊 Our work not only supports global sustainability efforts but also Bhutan’s groundbreaking Gelephu Mindfulness City project, a city that will integrate sustainability with well-being at its core 🚀 We’re showing that innovative, sustainable products are the future—not just for Bhutan but for the world 🌱✨  #Sustainability #CarbonNegative #InnovationForChange #GrossNationalHappiness #GelephuMindfulnessCity #Packaging Ayca Dundar Francis Field Eric Ng Josh Wade Tom Day Steven Clarke Nicolaus Norden Till Hoelzer Happiness Capital | Certified B Corp FoodLabs PA Consulting

Seaweed powers our material technology. Seaweed not only avoids the toxins and forever chemicals from plastic but also fuels a positive feedback loop for our environment and society 🌱 No land clearance 🌾 Carbon capture ☀️ No freshwater depletion or artificial chemicals 💧 On top of this all seaweed can be made into countless products! This is why we're thrilled to be turbocharging our move away from plastic with seaweed based innovations #Seaweed #Innovation #NewMaterials #SearoLabs Francis Field Ayca Dundar Happiness Capital | Certified B Corp FoodLabs

Today marks the moment the world has generated more plastic waste than it has the ability to manage 👎 - Plastic Overshoot Day 🗑 ♻ It doesn't have to be this way. At Searo Labs we are working towards eliminating the issue of plastic waste with our sustainable materials powered by natural polymers from seaweed. All of our products are: •⁠ ⁠Biodegradable, avoiding the lifelong impact of plastic 🌱 •⁠ ⁠Made from natural polymers from seaweed, avoiding land clearance, let alone creating landfill waste 🌊 •⁠ ⁠Free of toxic chemicals ❤️ We know there is a long way to go, but each product we develop and scale brings us a step closer to eliminating plastic 🚀 #Sustainability #TakeAction #EliminatePlastic #Innovation #SearoLabs Ayca Dundar Francis Field Happiness Capital | Certified B Corp FoodLabs

We're thrilled to see so much support for our new partnership and feature in publications including Packaging Insights, Packaging Gateway & Inside Packaging, Sustainable Packaging News, Yahoo Finance, Packaging Strategies Magazine and Packaging Europe to name just a few 🚀 🤝 Our partnership with PA Consulting is another important step towards turbocharging the large-scale change needed as we work to eliminate plastics #Partnership #Spreadtheword #SearoLabs #Sustainability #Innovation Francis Field Ayca Dundar Tom Day Steven Clarke Matthew Higham Amy Bloom Arabella Cram Kati Gardner Nicolaus Norden Christian Guba Patrick Noller Eric Ng Josh Wade FoodLabs Atlantic Labs Happiness Capital | Certified B Corp