The Seaweed Company

Since 2018, The Seaweed Company has been committed to ensuring a livable future for us, our children and generations to come. Their solution is as simple as it is brilliant: seaweed. After all, seaweed is the fastest-growing biomass in the world and it also needs extremely little: no land, no drinking water and no fertilisers. This is why The Seaweed Company sees seaweed as the ideal solution to many of our global challenges.

Seaweed has many potential applications. The most obvious is human consumption, already very common in Japan, for example. The plant is a natural source of organic proteins, sugars and fibre, contains many vitamins and minerals, and has proven positive health benefits. In addition, seaweed’s valuable ingredients can be used in high-quality animal feed, bio-stimulants, in bio-plastics and as bio-fuel, among other things. Research is also being conducted – by The Seaweed Company and others – into the application of seaweed in the development of medicines, for example against Alzheimer’s and diabetes.

The Seaweed Company is one of the few players to control the entire seaweed chain: from growing it to marketing its own unique products. The choice of mastering the entire process of growing, sowing, harvesting and processing seaweed through cultivation sites in Ireland, Morocco and India, as developing distinctive, value-added products, ensures that The Seaweed Company is developing as is one of the leading seaweed platforms The startup focuses at this stage on marketing two concepts: Blue Farming and Blue Health, focusing on biostimulants and supplements for animal feed (sustainable agriculture) and our own food supply (sustainable diets). Later, The Seaweed Company will add other product lines. The company is currently going through a funding round after which it aims to scale up quickly.