Spinout aims to SOLVE chemical conundrums

The spinout has been launched under a partnership model with funding from BASF subsidiary Chemovator in a pre-seed round led by Creator Fund.

The company is using chemical processing techniques to build up large sets of data on chemical reactions, which it will use to train machine learning models to predict the optimal ways to manufacture high-value chemicals.

This could make chemical production more sustainable by helping shift from toxic to benign materials, minimising waste, and reducing energy use. It is also expected to reduce the costs of setting up and running manufacturing facilities, and make supply chains more resilient.

An aim of SOLVE is to optimise a manufacturer’s choice of solvents.

“Solvents often improve reactions but are not in the final product, so they're inherently wasteful and are subject to increasingly heavy regulation,” Dr Linden Schrecker, SOLVE CEO and founder said in a statement. “Even in the last decade, we've seen the number of viable solvents drop, with many commonly used solvents being banned. We can provide clients with extra flexibility to vary how they manufacture a product.”