Solazyme
Founders
Jonathan Wolfson - CEO & Co-Founder
Harrison Dillon - President & Co-Founder
Founded
2003
Stage
Series C
Invested
2008
Status
IPO
Lightspeed Team
Christopher Schaepe - Co-Founder

Solazyme is a renewable oil and bioproducts company that that transforms low-cost plant-based sugars into high value triglyceride oils. Harnessing the prolific oil-producing ability of microalgae, Solazyme has the ability to tailor oils that mirror or enhance the chemical composition of conventional oils used today.

Company completed an IPO in 2011 and was acquired by Corbion in 2017

Christopher Schaepe