Rik Wehbring
Managing Director @ Planetary Technologies
San Francisco, United States
Rik Wehbring is a seed investor at Planetary Technologies in San Francisco focused on Solar and Energy. Rik Wehbring is the Managing Director at Bioeconomy Capital. He attended Cornell University.
- Total investments:
- 2
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- Lead investor:
- 100%
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Industries Rik Wehbring invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Solar 1 (50%)
- Energy 1 (50%)
- Genetics 1 (50%)
- Biotechnology 1 (50%)
- Bioinformatics 1 (50%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (50%)
- Series A 1 (50%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Mechanically-stacked perovskite+silicon tandem solar panels provide a unique opportunity for solar to reach new heights | $6M / Series A / Apr 20, 2022 | ||
| MicroByre is a platform for bacterial domestication. Their automated characterization pipeline gathers the oft-overlooked data that highlights unleveraged bacteria that meet functional industrial criteria. That is, they rapidly find the bacteria with naturally unfussy eating habits and evolution-honed metabolisms that have the potential to convertunrefined biomasses into commodity chemicals at vastly improved efficiencies compared to extant fermentation processes. They select from these functionally de-risked bacteria those which can be directly genetically modified to improve their cost profiles — even if they have never been engineered before. The data from our unique characterization pipeline informs the minimally precise genetic modifications necessary to increase pliability and yield, eliminate nutritional additives, maximize feedstock utilization, and improve contamination tolerance & phage resistance. MicroByre gives biomass conversion a truly competitive edge against petrochemical synthesis.MicroByre’s platform bridges the gap between the promising and the profitable in synthetic biology and bioengineering. A unique combination of resources and skills makes MicroByre a valuable potential partner for companies of all sizes and industries. They collaborate to define project scope to match a mutually agreeable business model, which could be a fee for service, license agreement, or joint development agreement. | $3M / Seed / Apr 26, 2019 |
Co-Investors
About Planetary Technologies
Bioeconomy Capital invests in early-stage companies with the goal of accelerating the biotechnology revolution. Based on its startup operational expertise, product development experience, and globally recognized strategic analysis, it has developed a blueprint for building and deploying technological capabilities that will become a criticalinfrastructure of the 21st-century economy.The company's proprietary blueprint is the distillation of the fund managers' five decades of combined experience in synthetic biology and other engineering fields and cannot be readily duplicated. Prior investments include Zymergen, Riffyn, Synthace, RoosterBio, Arzeda, Bellwether Bio, EdenWorks, and Lumen Biosciences.
Planetary Technologies Contacts
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Rik Wehbring
Managing Director
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Rob Carlson
Managing Director & Co-Founder
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What does Rik Wehbring invest in?
Rik Wehbring invests primarily in Solar, Energy and Genetics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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