Bloom closes a €3.9M Seed Round led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Bloom Biorenewables Ltd announces on February 23rd the closing of its Seed Round of funding, resulting in a total of €3.9 million raised from dilutive and non-dilutive sources.The round was led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures-Europe (BEV-E). It links European...
Bloom is finalist for the Swiss Technology Award 2020 !
Bloom makes it to the finalists of the Swiss Technology Award 2020 in the Inventors category ! Find out more about the award and the Swiss Innovation Forum here. Stay tuned for the award ceremony on the 19th of November at 4:25PM CET. Also, check out the video made...
Monique joins our scientific team!
Monique is a chemical engineer by training with experience in industry and a PhD from the University of Groningen. She has a strong background in biomass valorization strategies and circular economy. As a big enthusiast of biorefineries, her ambition is to support the...
Team is growing!
Team is growing! Gaspard Ky joins Bloom as business developer. Welcome!
Press release 20.08.2020
It is our great pleasure to announce that Bloom Biorenewables secured 2.9M€ fundraising to prove biomass valorization at pilot scale and signed partnership agreement with Yokogawa. Bloom-Biorenewables-PR-20.08.2020rDownload
Maxime joins our R&D team!
Maxime joins our scientific team as head of materials to develop sustainable plastics in collaboration with EPFL. He previously obtained his Master degree focussing on fibres and bio-materials from UGA-Grenoble INP Pagora and perfomed an internship at Nestle Research...
Bloom wins Webit Virtual Founders Games Investors Demo Day with 2.8k audience!
Bloom convinced the jury on the occasion of the Corporate responsibility and Sustainability Week !
Bloom makes the headlines of “La Liberté”
La liberté describes how Bloom uses biomass to replace petroleum in a great article available here.
Bloom is part of DealStream#2
Our COO Florent Héroguel appeared on the 2nd episode of Climate-KIC's DealStream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WP0dK2ZM_U&feature=youtu.be&t=167
Bloom makes it to the last stage of Venture Kick and receives CHF 150’000!
More info here.
W.A. de Vigier award 2020
Bloom was awarded the W.A. de Vigier award 2020 and receives 100'000 CHF. Bloom also received the Public award. A big thank you to our supporters! Watch the winning pitch from our CEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5F5QjIQinE First impressions from our CEO:...
Welcome Valentin!
Valentin joins Bloom for an internship focused on the development of new bio-materials. He is currently pursuing an apprenticeship at Cesi Rouen (France). Welcome Valentin!
Our CEO Remy delivers a TedX talk.
Our CEO Remy was invited for a TedX talk to discuss current state of petrochemicals and share his vision to build the future of the chemical industry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTw_3bXBaMA&t=12s
One step further: Bloom makes it to the de Vigier TOP10!
The next stage of the competition and will award 5 startups with a prize of CHF 100,000. The winners will be announced at the beginning of June.
Bloom receives support from Swiss Climate Foundation
Bloom is proud to announce a collaboration with the Swiss Climate Foundation, who will support our efforts to turn plants into a wide range of sustainable materials, such as plastics and fine chemicals. This will strongly help reducing the CO2 footprint of the...
Bloom receives support from Gerbert Rüf Stiftung!
The foundation provides support for the development of high-value applications from biomass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqrB5Lh1p9A
Bloom works towards sustainable marine fuels together with partners within the EU-funded IDEALFUEL project!
The project has received a €5 million grant from the European Union’s Horizon2020 programme (Grant Agreement no. 883753) and started on Friday May 1st 2020.
Bloom enters Climate KIC final stage!
Bloom enters the final stage of Climate KIC accelerator. Over the course of this 6-months third stage entitled "Delivery: Get your business ready for take-off!", Bloom will further accelerate thanks to workshops, events and a 40'000 € grant.
Bloom featured in Startup guide
Making our living on Earth more sustainable is a major topic of discussion in Davos this week. At Bloom Biorenewables, we use science and the Swiss ecosystem to make it happen!
EPFL Tech4Dev grant awarded to LPDC
Congratulations to the Laboratory of Sustainable and Catalytic Processing for this great project combining environmental and social impacts! Aldehyde Assisted Fractionation strategies reveal the hidden value of biomass.