Manufacturing industrial

Solugen

Website
Founded 2017Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Solugen is decarbonizing the chemistry of everyday life with enzymes and innovative metal catalysts. Our new to the world Bioforge platform technology can produce high value chemical goods that are biobased and carbon negative, at cost on par with current technologies. We are making sustainable chemistry accessible to all living things, to ensure a prosperous world exists for generations.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Previously Solugen, Bioperoxide

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Sean Hunt

Founder/CTO

Sean Hunt is the co-founder and CTO of Solugen, Inc., a renewable chemicals company based in Houston, TX. All things chemical engineering and process technology development, scaleup, manufacturing, commercialization.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
200team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2017 · Source

Origins

A poker game led to the creation of the company when G and Sean realized they were both working on the decarbonization of chemicals but from completely different angles. They joined forces to create the worlds leading decarbonization technology platform.

Founder account As recorded 2026-09-15

News & product activity

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedHouston, TX, USA
Pricing evidenceA pricing page was detected
Maturity: Not assessed · 4 of 6 areas documented

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