Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Inside The Startup Reinventing America’s Trillion Dollar Chemical Industry

March 20, 2026·13 min·2-min readsolotechnology
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Solugin (originally Soligen) pioneered a revolutionary chemoenzymatic process that fuses biological enzymes with metal catalysts to produce industrial chemicals more efficiently, cleanly, and at lower cost, starting from a $10,000 PVC-pipe reactor and scaling to a billion-dollar manufactu

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SeanGorb

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Solugin

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BioForge OneChemoenzymatic processing

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