The Protein Discovery Company Shiru Launches World’s First Protein Marketplace and Discovery Platform
01 Mayo 2024 - 5:00AM
Business Wire
- Shiru’s marketplace, ProteinDiscovery.ai, lets anyone
search, discover, test, and buy proteins for food, agriculture,
personal care, and advanced materials applications
- Shiru’s marketplace and discovery model is an industry
first, allowing large incumbents, startups, and every other company
to unlock the power of AI models, large datasets, and automated
biochemistry – with a simple, easy-to-use web interface
- The searchable database catalogs more than 33 million
molecules so you can search by sequence, metadata, performance, and
functional use
Shiru, The Protein Discovery Company, is launching the world’s
first marketplace and discovery platform for proteins.
ProteinDiscovery.ai lets anyone search, discover, pilot, and buy
molecules for food, agriculture, personal care, and advanced
material applications.
Shiru’s marketplace and discovery model is an industry first,
allowing large incumbents, startups and researchers to unlock the
power of proprietary, trained AI models, an extensive database of
natural protein sequences, and automated biochemistry workflows via
a simple web interface.
The searchable database catalogs more than 33 million molecules
by sequence, functional use, and successful expression. Shiru’s
discovery tool links natural protein sequences with novel
applications, creating new intellectual property of bio-based
ingredients at the speed of search. Shiru’s infrastructure will
allow companies to purchase and secure intellectual property rights
in perpetuity.
“With ProteinDiscovery.ai we’ve made the world of natural
proteins for industrial applications accessible. We’ve even added
the ability for users to easily purchase samples, creating the
‘Amazon for proteins,’” said Shiru Founder and CEO Dr. Jasmin Hume.
“We’ve been using AI to identify high-value, novel, scalable
proteins for years, fueling our own product development. With
significant recent interest from CPGs and ingredients companies
alike, we decided to open our toolbox to everyone.”
The unveiling of ProteinDiscovery.ai marks a significant
expansion for Shiru beyond food. Shiru’s dual platform approach
disrupts both discovery and go-to-market for protein-based
products, providing access to natural and disruptive bio-based
products as simple as ecommerce.
ProteinDiscovery.ai can save companies millions of dollars in
R&D costs — and years of work — towards accelerating the
transition to better bio-based products. Whether the challenge is
finding a sweet protein with a clean label and high stability,
plant proteins that mimic casein, clean-label methylcellulose
replacements, or ice structuring proteins, Shiru’s tools make
search and development of new products across various high value
applications extremely straightforward.
Founded in 2019 to disrupt the discovery of natural products by
harnessing AI and synthetic biology, Shiru provides startups and
incumbents the unique opportunity to purchase or license patented,
de-risked protein solutions ready to scale. Shiru has already
forged partnerships with global multinationals including Puratos,
and Griffith Foods via its CVC fund, Nourish Ventures, to discover,
pilot, and scale sustainable food ingredients.
One ingredient on Shiru’s partnership platform, OleoPro, uses
plant-based proteins to create protein scaffolds that structure
liquid oils. OleoPro, which just received a patent from the USPTO,
is a high-performance, structured fat that replaces unsustainable
tropical oils including palm, coconut oil, and cocoa butter in food
and personal care. The highly tunable protein technology powering
OleoPro allows oils to be used in new ways to deliver a range of
previously impossible functionality for food and consumer products
while reducing saturated fat by over 80%.
OleoPro, and the active protein ingredient it contains, uPro,
are now also available on Novi Connect, expanding Shiru’s reach
into the cosmetics industry.
About Shiru
Shiru, The Protein Discovery Company, is accelerating the
limitless possibility of protein through AI-powered discovery and
high-performance, sustainable products. Shiru’s disruptive
approach, powered by its patented Flourish™ technology, cuts
discovery costs and speeds up scaleup success, quickly pinpointing
high-performing and scalable natural proteins on drastically
accelerated timelines. Its namesake partnerships platform,
Shiru.com, offers patented, ready-to-scale protein solutions. Its
technology platform, ProteinDiscovery.ai, offers an interactive
marketplace and discovery suite in a first-of-its-kind, open-access
catalog featuring over 33 million molecules for applications across
food, personal care, agriculture, and advanced materials. Shiru is
led by a seasoned team of technologists and industry veterans and
is based in Alameda, California. Shiru is backed by leading venture
capital firms, including S2G Ventures, Lux Capital, and CPT
Capital. For more information, visit http://www.shiru.com and
ProteinDiscovery.ai.
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