Asia Pacific Food Industry · Mar 2025
Profile of Genecis and its StormFisher-backed demonstration project to convert organic waste into PHA bioplastics at scale.
Makes guilt-free plastics from food waste
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Genecis Bioindustries is a Toronto-area climate biotech company that converts organic waste into PHA bioplastics for sustainable packaging, textiles, automotive, and medical applications.
Primary product
PHA bioplastics made from organic waste
Founded
2017
Headquarters
Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Team size
1-10
Industry
Biotechnology Research
Sub-industry
Climate biotech / bioplastics / synthetic biology
Offices
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Business model
Stage
Series A
Total raised
$32.3M
Latest round
Debt - II · Jun 2025
Latest amount
$750K
Leadership
Luna Yu
Founder & CEO
Director of Downstream and Analytics
Sr. Director of Engineering and Operations
Technology Program Manager
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Chiapetta
Director of Fermentation
Michael Williamson
Director of Materials
Samra Asem
Office Manager and HR Coordinator
Zaid Siddiqui
Financial Controller
Founders
Co-founder
Investors
Mission-driven and collaborative, with a strong circular-economy and commercialization focus; the company emphasizes working closely with partners and customers to bring sustainable biomaterials to market.
Pricing
B2B custom quote / partnership-based commercialization
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M
Estimated monthly visits
751
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Asia Pacific Food Industry · Mar 2025
Profile of Genecis and its StormFisher-backed demonstration project to convert organic waste into PHA bioplastics at scale.
Forbes · Jan 2024
Forbes profile noting Genecis had raised $17M from Amazon and Khosla Ventures and generated $5M in revenue in the prior year.
Amazon Staff · Mar 2023
Amazon announced an investment in Genecis through the Climate Pledge Fund and said it was evaluating ways to use the company’s bioplastics in packaging.
BetaKit · Mar 2023
BetaKit reported Amazon’s investment, the potential customer relationship, and Genecis’ then-recent $7M Series A and $3M SVB credit facility.
NGen
NGen case study describing the StormFisher demonstration project to upcycle food waste into PHA bioplastics using existing anaerobic digestion infrastructure.