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Spinning a greener future.
Biomimica is working to improve the textile industry's climate footprint by creating strong and elastic artificial spider silk with our unique technology which can be used as a substitute for environmentally harmful in for example, clothing, transport and the wind turbine industry. This will contribute to reducing microplastics emission in our environment, as well as reducing CO2 emissions.
The future material
Challenge
At present, the clothing industry accounts for 10% of global CO2 emissions and pollutes with over 500,000 tons of microplastics per year which are released into nature every time we wash clothes.
Solution
Our unique technology is based on bioinspired microfluidic chip. Natural spider silk is one of the toughest fiber but only artificial spider silk can be acquired in industrial quantity. Increased customer awareness and EU legislation is forcing the industry to find new solutions.
Features
Advanced biomimicry & microfluidics-based spinning technique
Second Superior mechanical properties such as elasticity & strength
Environmentally friendly super material
The Team
Victor Robledo is the Co-Founder and COO of Biomimica, where he leads commercialization, investor relations, and strategic partnerships. He holds an MBA from Willamette University with a focus on strategic and operations management.
Victor has supported early-stage science ventures through the ecosystem at BioInnovation Institute and international accelerator programs, working on investor engagement, financial modelling, and commercialization strategy. At Biomimica, he focuses on investor readiness, capital strategy, and bringing biomimetic spider silk technologies to market.
Irina Iachina is the founder and CEO of Biomimica and a postdoctoral fellow affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Southern Denmark. Her research has focused on spider silk since 2016, leading to both a master's degree and a PhD dedicated to spider silk and artificial spider silk.
Through Biomimica, Irina is translating years of cutting-edge biomaterials research into scalable sustainable materials. Her long term vision is to develop superior artificial spider silk using advanced biomimicry to enable a new generation of high performance, environmentally responsible materials.
Contact us
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Dorrits Allé 17, 5250 Odense SV, Denmark