Octarine bio
Octarine bio
Bio-based dye palette that replaces conventional synthetic dyes
Investment vertical
- Biosolutionsabout /verticals/biosolutionsBiosolutions
Stage
- Seed
Website
www.octarinebio.com about https://www.octarinebio.com/The challenge
The textile industry, particularly conventional dyeing, is one of the most polluting industries globally. Its reliance on fossil-based synthetic dyes burdens the planet with high water and energy use, toxic chemical pollutants, and substantial greenhouse gas emissions. Finding vibrant, broad-spectrum colours that are environmentally friendly has long been a barrier, as natural dyes often lack the range, consistency, and scalability that fashion and textile supply chains demand.
The solution
Octarine Bio uses synthetic biology and precision fermentation to produce a bio-based dye palette that replaces conventional synthetic dyes. Their dyes are vibrant, scalable, and compatible with natural and synthetic fabrics, while reducing water use, energy consumption, CO₂ emissions, and toxicity. With Octarine’s nature-derived dyes, the textile industry can adopt sustainable colour solutions without compromising quality or scale.
Footprint team
- Anna Søndergaardabout ?overlay=anna-sondergaard
aso@thefootprintfirm.com about mailto:aso@thefootprintfirm.comAnna Søndergaard
Co-Founding Partner
Anna is an experienced entrepreneur and co-founder of Danish fashion brand Becksöndergaard Copenhagen, which was later sold to a private equity fund. Her main areas of expertise include business development, sales, distribution, product and pricing strategy as well as professionalization and scaling of start-ups.
Besides this, Anna has been actively involved as a board member, advisor and investor in a number of start-ups within industries such as sustainable fashion and apparel, Internet of Things and lifestyle over the past 10 years.
Passionate about entrepreneurship, building companies and always challenging the status quo, Anna embodies a commercial mindset and a hands-on approach to business development and strategy formulation. She’s a firm believer in integrity and that people are key to any success and she has a strong talent for building bridges between various stakeholders in organizations.
Anna holds a Master of Science in International Marketing and Management from Copenhagen Business School. Before starting her own company, she worked in consulting with McKinsey & Company and as Project Manager within advertising for Lowe Worldwide.