Why we’re doing this
We’ve watched the same pattern for years: promising natural ingredients that fail once they hit real processing. Producers stuck selling biomass with thin margins. Brands pushed to reformulate, but forced to choose between “natural” and “works.”
​We started Tint because we don’t accept that tradeoff.
If an ingredient doesn’t perform in the real world, it’s not a solution. If a supply chain can’t scale, it won’t matter.​​
What we believe
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Algae is the platform for future ingredients
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Biorefineries are the only scalable way forward. Single-product extraction doesn’t build economics
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Sustainability matters, but it’s useless if the ingredient doesn’t work
Ingredients should not fail at the factory gate
Natural ingredients often look great in a lab and collapse under heat, pH, light, time or formulation constraints. That gap is where projects die.
Tint exists to close that gap by building processes, stabilization strategies and product formats that behave like real industrial inputs.
Meet the founders
Built by people who’ve done this before
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How we think about scale
We don’t believe in one mega-factory. We believe in a network: partner with biomass producers, build biorefineries with them, validate performance, then commercialize globally. It’s faster, more capital-efficient, and it builds supply close to where biomass is produced.
