The technology

The next era of manufacturing, powered by engineered enzymes

Rubi manufactures materials with enzyme-powered biocatalysis: computationally engineered, deployed cell-free at industrial scale, and fed by abundant carbon.

02 / The PROCESS

Enzymatic Manufacturing

Our modular cell-free biocatalysis production units are designed to operate on a skid in a container-sized footprint, enabling deployment to point-of-need and ultra-low capital costs.

Rubi industrial stainless steel processing equipment labeled RUBI in a large factory setting with pipes, tanks, control panels, and machinery on a concrete floor.

Deployed anywhere, on modular, mass-manufactured hardware

17x more output per square foot than incumbent processes

50% lower capital cost per annual ton

80% faster from plant start to first product

Catalyst performance improves continuously through enzyme engineering — no hardware changes

Unlocks a cheaper fiber category for the first time in 70 years at scale

INSIDE The process

Carbon transformed

Rubi's proprietary multi-enzyme cascades and molecular energy delivery systems enable biocatalysis from abundant carbon sources at scale.

Abundant carbon feedstocks

Industrial sugars, waste biomass, methanol, or CO₂ provide flexible alternatives to petroleum-based feedstocks.

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Rubi Laboratories industrial enzymatic manufacturing plant in modular, containerized, skid-based unit with metal tanks, pipes, filtration columns, a motor, and a control panel mounted on a metal frame base.

Enzymatic conversion

AI-engineered enzyme cascades build products unit by unit, cell-free, in modular skid reactors. Tunable in-process.

Rubi Laboratories produces advanced materials and chemicals. Luxury textiles, mass-market textiles at price parity, carbon fiber precursors, chemicals like ethylene glycol, polymers for personal care and cosmetics, cellulose pulp, and more.

Materials out

Cellulose pulps and fibers, tunable biopolymers, and biochemicals, finished on the same equipment industry already runs.

Rubi Laboratories is a leading AI enzyme engineering startup using computational enzyme engineering for industrial enzymes. Rubi has developed a proprietary industrial enzymes data moat.

01 / The engine

The Industrial Enzyme Foundry

We design, test, and deploy enzymes under one roof. This vertically integrated platform allows data from every engineering campaign and production run to feed back into our engineering, rapidly improving industrial enzyme performance and cost.

Inside the Foundry

AI-guided enzyme engineering

Our enzymes catalyze reactions, building a precise target product bond by bond. Rubi's AI and computational engineering design improved variants, which are validated in-house in real industrial conditions.

Every engineering campaign and production run measures how enzymes actually perform in industrial conditions — proprietary data that does not exist in public databases.

Enzyme engineering is distinct from protein engineering and still largely inaccessible to frontier AI labs, software-only, or protein-focused teams. It requires specialized assays to screen performance, and industrial data does not exist publicly. Rubi has built this expertise and capability over several years, enabling high-throughput enzyme engineering and wet-lab screening that generate rich proprietary data and continuously improve our biocatalysts.

A new category

Enzymes that build things

The majority of the chemicals industry is powered by synthesis: reactions that use energy to build complex products from simpler ones. Industrial enzymes typically focus on decomposition only. Rubi is changing that.

The chemical industry runs on two kinds of processes.

Decomposition processes

Breaking things down

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Decomposition reactions split large molecules into smaller, simpler ones. Products have low value.

Most industrial enzymes work here today

Corn syrup production

Wastewater treatment

Enzymatic plastic recycling

Synthesis processes

Building things up

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Synthesis reactions add energy to assemble simple carbon into complex, high-value products. Products have high value.

Rubi

Rubi’s enzymes work here

Advanced cellulose fibers

Performance ingredients & polymers

Carbon fiber precursors

Synthesis processes make up about 80% of chemical industry’s value. Rubi unlocks enzymatic synthesis.

Global chemical industry (~$6 trillion), Estimated share of market value

Decomposition processes

20%

of market value

Where most enzyme companies work today: plastic recycling, sweeteners, wastewater treatment.

Synthesis processes

80%

of market value

Rubi

Rubi has unlocked industrial-scale synthesis with enzyme pathways.

Simple carbon in. High-value products out.

Simple, cheap carbon

Sugars, waste biomass, methanol, CO₂. Abundant inputs priced as commodities.

Rubi

Multi-step enzyme cascades

Optimized cascades of enzymes operate in simple hardware to synthesize products from inputs.

Out

Complex, high-value products

Advanced fibers, ingredients, and precursors sold on performance.

Value and margin increase from input to output

Key advantages

First at scale. Rubi is the first to scale enzyme biocatalysis pathways that synthesize complex industrial products from basic carbon inputs like CO₂ and waste carbon.

Margin across the process. Low-cost inputs become high-value materials, and Rubi captures the value in between.

A deep technical moat. Cascades that build are hard to design, balance, and run at scale. We've developed the IP for energy delivery systems, pathway design and conditions, and hardware.

Rubi is the world leader in enzymatic manufacturing that builds complex products from simple carbon.