Startup Of The Week

Startup Of The Week: Vertoro

Vertoro, a Dutch biotech company, has developed a green platform product called Goldilocks made from forestry or agricultural residue that replaces fossil-based feedstocks for fuel, chemical and material applications. It is already selling into markets as diverse as antioxidants and marine fuel. Vertoro counts Maersk Growth, the corporate venturing arm of shipping giant Maersk, among its investors, and is part of a consortium, with Shell Netherlands, that was recently awarded a grant to demonstrate the viability of using Goldilocks to produce sustainable aviation fuel.

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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.