Growing nature-led companies

We help nature-led solutions reach the market and hold their ground there.

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001/About

We are your partner

We’re a venture studio for nature-led innovation. In practice that means:

We don’t consult, we co-build
We don’t write decks, we roll up sleeves
We sit beside you turning research into revenue, and intent into companies

Whether you’re spinning out of a lab or scaling a first result, we’re here to shorten the road to market — with the structure, the team, the strategy and the capital.

How we work

002/Approach

Spot the signal

We scout breakthrough research and bio-inspired technology that has a clear commercial path.

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Build what matters

We partner with founders to shape the venture from the ground up — assembling the team, designing the product, and testing the market, the business model and the route to first revenue.

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Scale and secure

We accelerate the venture with the right capital and the right partners around the table.

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003/The studio

Who we work with

We work with researchers, founders and industry teams to build the next run of climate-positive ventures — by design, not by accident.

Learn more about our method

Founders

We join as late co-founders. We bring capital, hands-on execution, and a method that has already been run end to end.

Researchers

We co-found ventures with the people shaping tomorrow’s technology. You bring the insight; we build the company around it — brand, funding and team.

Industry

We help you turn nature-led strategy into market-ready offers. From framing the problem to piloting the launch, we work alongside your teams.

004/Ventures

Discover our ventures

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Thalline

Through a leading AI platform for biomimetic R&D, Thalline connects engineers to nature’s own solved problems to design what comes next.

Discover all the ventures

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Out of the Lab

€35,000 to move your bio-inspired research out of the lab and into the world.

The Out of the Lab award exists to help researchers and early-stage teams turn bio-inspired work into a real venture. We’re looking for ideas with a measurable upside for the planet. If you’re a researcher, a project lead or a pre-seed team working on something nature-led with real-world legs, this one is for you.

2027 applications open: 18 February 2027

Meet our team

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Sylvane brings together deep benches in biomimicry, machine learning, design, operations and finance to carry ventures from zero to one.

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Meet our team

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006/Voices

“Working with Sylvane took us from an idea to something with weight in the world — research, company-building and craft pulling in the same direction.”

Noor VandermeerManaging director, Biomima