London, UK – 1st July 2025
At Prosemino, we believe that the future of decarbonisation lies in fundamental chemistry. That's why we backed Eutechtics, a company building a low-carbon platform for the production of essential industrial chemicals from captured CO₂. In a sector long dominated by fossil-derived feedstocks and energy-intensive processes, Eutechtics’ approach stands out for its technical originality, commercial relevance, and systems-level potential.
Their EvoCarbon platform converts captured carbon into carboxylic acids, widely used intermediates used across cosmetics, food, pharmaceuticals. The process avoids fossil carbon entirely and offers a viable path to dramatically lower emissions in some of industry’s most entrenched supply chains.
Eutechtics recently secured a competitive Innovate UK Smart Grant to advance this catalytic platform, a major vote of confidence in the strength of their core chemistry and execution capabilities. However, unlocking this grant required matched funding, and that’s where Prosemino came in.
What made this investment compelling was not only the science, but the team’s clarity on where their chemistry fits and how it scales. We invested alongside Innovate UK, aligning public innovation funding with strategic capital and hands-on venture building. Together, we’re accelerating the development of a platform that has the potential to reshape how foundational chemicals are made.
“This award is a huge vote of confidence in our technology and our vision for fossil-free chemical manufacturing,” said Armando Leal, CEO and co-founder of Eutechtics. “We’re proud to be developing a platform that doesn’t just reduce emissions, but reimagines the supply chain using waste CO₂ as a resource.”
Decarbonising One of Industry’s Toughest Challenges
For Prosemino, the decision to back Eutechtics wasn’t just about one startup. It reflected a broader mission: to help the UK lead in the decarbonisation of tough industries, chemicals, materials, and manufacturing.
The chemical sector, in particular, remains one of the hardest industries to decarbonise, responsible for over 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Many of its foundational products, including carboxylic acids, are currently derived from fossil feedstocks through high-temperature, energy-intensive processes.
Despite mounting regulatory and consumer pressure, commercially viable low-carbon alternatives have remained elusive.
Eutechtics directly addresses this gap. Their platform catalytically converts captured CO₂ into carboxylic acids under mild conditions, offering a way to eliminate fossil carbon from some of industry’s most entrenched value chains. The result: dramatically lower lifecycle emissions without compromising product performance or scalability.
“Our chemical process can synthesise a family of carboxylic acids from carbon dioxide opening a modular path to sustainable products across multiple industries,” added Dr. Luis Mauricio Murillo, CTO and co-founder
A Strategic Coalition: Eutechtics, Prosemino and the University of York
Eutechtics’ momentum has been fuelled not just by strong science, but by the coalition they’ve built around it.
In addition to the Innovate UK grant and investment from Prosemino, the company also maintains a partnership with the University of York, where key research continues and pilot-scale experiments are being designed. This academic collaboration ensures continuity of expertise, access to core infrastructure, and a talent pipeline as the team grows.
Together, the partners form a robust foundation for scaling a transformative technology, from chemistry lab to commercial deployment.
From Lab Bench to Global Market
Eutechtics has already attracted early attention from major industrial players, with promising signals of market demand for its low-carbon chemistry. The combination of grant funding and strategic backing from Prosemino will accelerate the company’s journey toward commercial deployment, laying the foundation for scale-up and global industrial adoption.
The 18-month programme now underway focuses on platform optimisation, process scale-up, and customer engagement. While the pace has accelerated, the mission remains focused: transform how key industrial chemicals are made, and prove that deep decarbonisation is not just technically feasible, but commercially compelling.
More Than Capital: Building the Right Company, Together
To Eutechtics’, Prosemino wasn’t just about money, it was about fit.
Prosemino offers something rare in the early-stage climate ecosystem: a venture model built specifically for hard tech. They bring the technical depth to assess foundational science, the operational muscle to get experiments running fast, and the commercial expertise to turn research into revenue.
From day one, we work side by side with founders, co-creating companies that can turn world-class science into global impact.
As co-founders, we embed ourselves in both the technical and commercial journey. We help shape the core value proposition, design early experiments, validate use cases, and craft the right go-to-market strategy. When things get tough, we’re in the trenches, offering operational support, commercial insight, and strategic guidance.
We also offer a physical launchpad. Our fully equipped London lab provides affordable, turnkey space to test, iterate, and scale, eliminating setup delays and accelerating progress. But it's the people alongside the equipment that make the difference. We become part of the founding team, helping navigate complex decisions, open doors to funders and partners, and build the foundations for long-term success.
“At Prosemino, we know what it takes to build in the physical world,” says Dr. Gyen. “We’re not tourists in science or startups. We’ve built companies ourselves, and now we help others do the same.”
But it’s equally a story of founders who built the kind of company investors could believe in. A company grounded in first principles and ready to scale.
The Bigger Picture
Eutechtics’ journey is about more than building a successful startup: it’s about redefining what’s possible in one of the hardest-to-abate sectors of the global economy.
What they’re offering is a solution with far-reaching potential: decarbonising legacy production, reducing supply chain risk, and enabling net-zero targets in industries often overlooked by climate tech. And crucially, it’s being built by scientists who have stayed close to the science while learning how to engage industry, shape markets, and grow a business.
Their progress reflects what’s possible when world-class chemistry meets the right support network, from academia to government grants to mission-aligned investors. With a strong partnership base, strategic capital behind them, and early traction with customers, Eutechtics is now on a path from demonstration to deployment.
In an era where deep decarbonisation is no longer optional, companies like Eutechtics offer a glimpse of a different future , one where advanced chemistry isn’t the problem, but the solution.