Solugen

Solugen is a carbon negative moleucle factory that replaces petroleum-based products with plant-derived substitutes.

Health and bioClimate and energyManufacturing and industrialY Combinator

TIMELINE · MONEY RAISED

Solugen | 685 days from X account to first raise on record

@solugen·Raised $643M in 5 sourced rounds·1 signal before the first raise

Money raised, round by round (amounts linked to their source). Pins are dated signals; hover the icons for dates.

Funding rounds

1. March 17, 2026
   Series B+ · $50M
   IIdealist Capital (lead)
   Source: fundraisingfox.com
2. October 31, 2022
   Series B+ · $200M
   KKinnevik (lead), LLowercarbon Capital (lead), RRefactor (lead), BBaillie Gifford, FFifty Years, TTemasek, TTrousdale Ventures
   Source: fundraisingfox.com
3. September 9, 2021
   Series B+ · $357M
   BBaillie Gifford (lead), GGIC (lead), TTemasek (lead), BBlackRock, CCarbon Direct Capital, EEthos Family Office, FFifty Years, KK5 Global, QQuiet Capital, RRefactor
   Source: cnbc.com
4. May 22, 2019
   Series B+ · $32M
   FFounders Fund (lead), FFifty Years, HHanover, KKdT Ventures, RRefactor, YY Combinator
   Source: finsmes.com
5. October 24, 2017
   Seed · $4.4M
   RRefactor (lead), LLing Wong, LLiquid 2 Ventures, MMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MMatt Bellamy, SSocial Capital, SSoma Capital, TTodd Corenson, TTuesday Capital, YY Combinator
   Source: impactalpha.com
6. Winter 2017
   YY Combinator · batch
   Source: ycombinator.com
7. December 9, 2015
   X account created
8. April 13, 2004
   Website created

Founders and team

• GC
  Gaurab Chakrabarti, MD, PhD CEO/Co-Founder

  @gaurabc · LinkedIn · source: foundertrace.com
• SH
  Sean Hunt Founder

  @tungstenseanide · LinkedIn
• AP
  Alan Pike Controller
• FN
  Frederyk Ngantung Vice President (VP) of Product
• KA
  Karina Amelang General Counsel
• SL
  Sean Liu Vice President (VP) of Strategic Financ
• TT
  Travis Thibodeaux COO

Investors

• BBaillie Giffordlead investor
• BBlackRock
• CCarbon Direct Capital
• EEthos Family Office
• FFifty Years
• FFounders Fundlead investor
• GGIClead investor
• HHanover
• IIdealist Capitallead investor
• KK5 Global
• KKdT Ventures
• KKinneviklead investor
• LLing Wong
• LLiquid 2 Ventures
• LLowercarbon Capitallead investor
• MMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• MMatt Bellamy
• QQuiet Capital
• RRefactorlead investor
• SSocial Capital
• SSoma Capital
• TTemaseklead investor
• TTodd Corenson
• TTrousdale Ventures
• TTuesday Capital
• UUS Department of Energy
• YY Combinatoraccelerator

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