Startup Of The Week

Startup Of The Week: Hyfé

Hyfé, a World Economic Forum 2025 Technology Pioneer, is using food waste streams to power the next generation of sustainable feedstocks for biomanufacturing.

The company’s  goal is to make biomanufacturing economically viable, said Michelle Ruiz, the San Francisco startup’s co-founder and CEO. “We want to bring refining and production of core chemical building blocks from food waste to a global scale,” she says.

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About the author

Jennifer L. Schenker

Jennifer L. Schenker, an award-winning journalist, has been covering the global tech industry from Europe since 1985, working full-time, at various points in her career for the Wall Street Journal Europe, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring and BusinessWeek. She is currently the editor-in-chief of The Innovator, an English-language global publication about the digital transformation of business. Jennifer was voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe in 2015 and 2016 and was named by Forbes Magazine in 2018 as one of the 30 women leaders disrupting tech in France. She has been a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers judge for 20 years. She lives in Paris and has dual U.S. and French citizenship.