Building carbon conversion systems for SAF feedstocks.
C1 Foundry is a C1 carbon utilization company focused on biological and process pathways that convert CO2 and related inputs into intermediates and lipids relevant to sustainable aviation fuel supply chains. The work is anchored in practical commercialization: productivity, process economics, and fit with existing energy infrastructure.
Focus
SAF feedstocks are the first wedge, but the work still has to function as a full system.
Inputs
CO2, H2, formate, acetate, and related streams each bring different carbon, energy, handling, and process constraints.
Platform
Biology, redox balance, cofeeding, process conditions, and downstream recovery have to be designed together.
Products
SAF-relevant feedstocks have to make technical, operational, and commercial sense before broader platform expansion matters.
What we do
We connect carbon inputs, biology, energy, process design, and downstream demand.
The initial commercialization focus is SAF feedstocks, especially intermediates and lipids that can connect into existing refining pathways. Practical system design may include acetate intermediates, cofeeding strategies, and other ways to balance carbon flow, ATP, and reducing power. C1 Foundry evaluates those choices as full-system tradeoffs: feedstock access, productivity, energy demand, downstream recovery, process economics, and integration with real partners.
System view
Inputs become SAF-relevant outputs when carbon, energy, biology, process design, and partner integration are coordinated together.
Inputs
- CO2
- H2
- Formate
- Acetate
- Glucose / gluconate
Foundry system
- Conversion biology
- Process design
- Energy / redox balance
- Partner integration
Products
- Lipids
- Fatty acids
- SAF feedstock intermediates
- Terpenoids / specialty molecules
Partnerships
Built for serious conversations around SAF feedstocks and carbon conversion.
The best partners are thinking about the whole problem: feedstocks, hydrogen and energy systems, metabolic constraints, downstream refining fit, process economics, and route-to-market. If SAF feedstocks are the first commercial wedge you are evaluating, we should talk.