The world’s first marketplace and protein discovery platform is being launched by Shiru, The Protein Discovery Company. Anyone may search, find, test, and purchase molecules for use in food, agriculture, personal hygiene, and cutting-edge material applications with ProteinDiscovery.ai.
With the help of a straightforward web interface, big incumbents, startups, and researchers may now harness the power of proprietary, trained AI models, a vast database of natural protein sequences, and automated biochemistry workflows thanks to Shiru’s marketplace and discovery approach, which is a first for the industry.
More than 33 million molecules are listed in the searchable database according to their effective expression, functional application, and sequence. Shiru’s discovery tool creates new intellectual property of bio-based ingredients at the speed of search by connecting natural protein sequences with inventive uses. Businesses will be able to acquire and safeguard intellectual property rights for all time because to Shiru’s infrastructure.
We have opened up the world of natural proteins for commercial applications with ProteinDiscovery.ai. Dr. Jasmin Hume, founder and CEO of Shiru, remarked, “We’ve even added the ability for users to easily purchase samples, creating the ‘Amazon for proteins.” “For years, we have been utilizing AI to find innovative, high-value proteins that are scalable and help with our own product development. After receiving a lot of interest recently from both CPG and ingredient firms, we made the decision to make our toolbox available to everyone.
With the release of ProteinDiscovery.ai, Shiru has significantly expanded its reach beyond food. With its dual platform strategy, Shiru upends the process of finding and bringing protein-based products to market while making access to natural and innovative bio-based products as easy as online shopping.
ProteinDiscovery.ai can help businesses accelerate the switch to better bio-based goods by saving years of work and millions of dollars in R&D expenses. Shiru’s tools simplify the search and development of new products across a variety of high value applications, whether the challenge is finding a sweet protein with a clean label and high stability, plant proteins that mimic casein, clean-label methylcellulose replacements, or ice structuring proteins.
Founded in 2019, Shiru offers startups and established companies the rare chance to buy or license patented, de-risked protein solutions that are ready to scale. Shiru was founded to disrupt the discovery of natural products by utilizing AI and synthetic biology. Through its CVC fund, Nourish Ventures, Shiru has already established collaborations with international corporations such as Puratos and Griffith Foods in order to find, test, and expand sustainable food products.
Plant-based proteins are used as one constituent in OleoPro, Shiru’s collaboration platform, to generate protein scaffolds that structure liquid oils. The USPTO has granted a patent to OleoPro, a high-performance, structured fat that may be used in culinary and personal care products in place of unsustainable tropical oils including palm, coconut, and cocoa butter. OleoPro’s highly adjustable protein technology reduces saturated fat by over 80% while opening up new uses for oils in food and consumer items. This functionality was previously unattainable.
With the release of OleoPro and uPro, the active protein ingredient it contains, on Novi Connect, Shiru’s presence in the cosmetics business has grown.
