THE FOUNDRY
A synbio-driven venture studio dedicated to biodiversity conservation impacts
The Foundry is CXL’s operational approach to the innovation pipeline that enables the development of disruptive, effective, and impactful innovations by combining our deep expertise in open innovation and product development. The Foundry supports CXL’s core goal of producing revolutionary innovations that address human-induced drivers of extinction while leveraging market opportunities to achieve impact at scale.
The Foundry will rapidly develop, prototype, and build venture-backable companies with a focus on transforming industries with a direct stake in solving the extinction crisis. The new program leverages CXL’s proven deep domain, programmatic, and innovation expertise, along with our global ecosystem and network, to rapidly push revolutionary innovations from ideas to scalable solutions and startups that address the biggest challenges currently affecting our planet.
