Multi Sector
New CO2-sequestering material
Stromate—the first of our new materials locks CO₂ into a solid matrix with properties of high strength, excellent thermal and sound insulation, fire resistance, and translucency
Field of Expertise
Tattva was founded in 2024 by Prantar Tamuli, whose PhD research laid the scientific foundation for the technology, and was incubated through ConceptionX, with early investment from G-Force. The company’s pilot production plant is located at Elston Farm in Devon—a state-of-the-art regenerative modern farm led by co-founder Andy Gray, which operates on renewable energy sources including solar, wind, and recycled industrial heat. Tattva has already demonstrated scalability beyond the lab, producing multiple architectural panels of Stromate that were recently exhibited at the Bioscope Pavilion in St Andrews Botanic Garden, Scotland. The other co-founder is Dr Steven Roberts ex Barclays and founder of Barclays Eagle Labs and Barclays Digital Eagles.
Expertise
Tattva’s core innovation uses photosynthetic cyanobacteria, some of Earth’s oldest lifeforms, to convert atmospheric CO₂ into high-performance materials. These microbes mimic the natural process that formed ancient stromatolites and thrombolites, rock-like structures, that sequestered carbon as calcium carbonate, layer by thin layer, over thousands of years. Tattva’s process forms a carbon-sequestering 3D material in just days, ready to be worked into multiple applications.
The result is Stromate—a first-of-its-kind photosynthetic material that directly captures and locks CO₂ into a solid matrix while offering a rare combination of properties: high strength, excellent thermal and sound insulation, fire resistance, and translucency. Stromate has already gained the interest of industry leaders like Catnic, part of the multinational Tata Steel group.
Off the back of the development of Stromate, Tattva has now developed a scaling and testing capability that it can apply to other cyanobacteria and their outputs, as well as supporting other start ups and researchers in this space. Cyanobacteria are a diverse and geologically long lived group, with many as yet undiscovered and undeveloped applications, which we believe we can help discover and exploit.