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Updated Aug 16, 2026
Syzygy Plasmonics is a Houston-based climate-technology company commercializing light-driven, electrified chemical reactors. Its current focus is converting waste biogas and renewable electricity into lower-carbon sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), while also supporting hydrogen, ammonia cracking, methanol, syngas and other chemical pathways.
Primary product
NovaSAF™ biogas-to-SAF platform, built around the Rigel™ all-electric photocatalytic reactor cell and proprietary GHG e-Reforming™ technology.
Founded
2017
Headquarters
3250 South Sam Houston Parkway East, Houston/Pearland, Texas 77047, United States
Team size
Approximately 40–60 currently; public sources report 46 employees after 2025 workforce reductions, while the Pearland Economic Development Corporation previously reported approximately 60 employees and pre-layoff reporting cited approximately 110.
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Climate technology / clean energy manufacturing
Sub-industry
Industrial decarbonization, photocatalysis, sustainable aviation fuel and low-carbon chemicals
Offices
Business model
Stage
Bridge financing / preparing for a planned Series D
Total raised
$140.5M
Latest round
Bridge round, first close · Mar 2025
Latest amount
$24.5M
Mar 2025
Feb 2024 · Zeon Ventures
Corporate minority / strategic investment
Oct 2023 · Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Nov 2022 · Carbon Direct Capital
Apr 2021 · Horizons Ventures
Department of Energy and National Science Foundation grants
Apr 2021 · U.S. Department of Energy / National Science Foundation
Sep 2019
Dec 2018
Corporate / founding financing
Jan 2017
Leadership
Trevor Best
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Suman Khatiwada, PhD
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Naomi Halas, PhD
Co-founder and Technology Advisor
Peter Nordlander, PhD
Co-founder and Technology Advisor
Murtuza Marfani
Chief Financial Officer
Ishan Rao
Vice President, Commercial
Fari Mirhadizadeh
Vice President, Engineering
Hossein Robatjazi
Vice President, Research
Dorianne Erazo
Senior Vice President, Operations
Amber Weaver
Vice President and General Counsel
Minh Truong
Director, Human Resources
Suzanne Foti
Vice President, Public Affairs
Alexander Radomsky
Vice President, Manufacturing
The company presents itself as a mission-driven deep-tech and climate company focused on electrifying chemical manufacturing and reducing industrial emissions. Public recruiting material emphasizes hands-on engineering, commercialization, climate impact and a workplace for people who want to make an impact on climate change. Built In describes the work environment as onsite.
Work style
Onsite
Compensation
Public recruiting material signals competitive salary and comprehensive benefits. Third-party salary estimates reported approximately $48,853 for process operators, $67,668 for chemists and $123,279 for senior engineers; these are estimates rather than company-published compensation bands.
Benefits
Pricing
No public list pricing. The apparent model combines capital-equipment and reactor sales, engineering and commissioning fees, technology licensing, project-level financing and long-term SAF offtake contracts. Syzygy markets NovaSAF as potentially cost-competitive with HEFA and capable of Jet-A parity in favorable scenarios.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Approximately $1M–$10M annually; Exa estimates $4.5M, but this is not company-reported revenue and should be treated as directional.
Estimated monthly visits
5.4K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Texas WARN notices covered 68 layoffs: 58 employees at the Pearland headquarters and 10 at the Kirby office, with separations beginning March 31, 2025. Reporting described the reduction as more than half of the approximately 110-person workforce and attributed it to slower clean-technology deployment and financial pressure.
SourceAxios reported that Syzygy had completed a $24.5 million first close of a planned $35 million bridge round and was targeting an $80–100 million Series D in 2026. The company was shifting emphasis away from hydrogen toward biogas-derived fuels.
SourceSyzygy and Lotte Chemical completed testing of an all-electric ammonia-cracking system in Ulsan, South Korea. The announcement indicated that further commercialization and small commercial plant deployment remained future steps.
SourcePR Newswire · Jun 2026
World Fuel Services reserved a portion of future SAF production from planned Syzygy facilities in Central and South America, subject to project development and completion.
PR Newswire · Jan 2026
Trafigura signed a binding six-year agreement covering the planned output of NovaSAF-1 in Uruguay, with first deliveries targeted for 2028. The agreement is a major commercialization and financing milestone.
Honeywell · Aug 2025
Honeywell UOP announced that its Fischer-Tropsch Unicracking technology would be used at NovaSAF-1. The Uruguay facility was described as targeting more than 350,000 gallons of SAF annually.
PR Newswire · Jun 2025
Syzygy announced the start of front-end engineering and design with Kent for NovaSAF-1 in Durazno, Uruguay, targeting more than 350,000 gallons of SAF per year and commercial operations in 2027.
Houston Business Journal · Feb 2025
The company announced a substantial workforce reduction amid financial pressure and slower clean-technology deployment. WARN filings covered 68 Houston-area positions.
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