Ardra Bio

Ardra is engineering technologies to produce completely petroleum-free, high purity, and sustainable biochemicals.

Ardra is a renewable chemicals company targeting specialty chemicals used in cosmetics and personal care products. Ardra is a startup based on technology developed at the university of toronto. Their technology uses model-guided metabolic engineering and synthetic biology to develop biocatalysts for production of specialty chemicals from renewable resources. Their current target is the cosmetics industry, which uses $2.6 billion worth of petroleum chemicals in variety of products. At ardra, they aim to reduce the cosmetics industry’s dependence on petroleum by making renewable drop in substitutes.