First spirulina production in Dhaka, Bangladesh

In January the EnerGaia Bangladesh team set up tanks on the rooftop of Sher-e-Bangla University in Dhaka. In February they held a media event for the press to celebrate the start up of the first spirulina production tanks.  In March, Ezra went from HQ to help our Bangladesh team finish setting up our main spirulina […]

Bioreactor spirulina has begun operation in Singapore

  In Singapore, the new 200 bioreactor spirulina farm that EnerGaia installed with our partner, Ruyi Ventures, has begun operation!  As of September there were 80 tanks operating.  These would be used to scale-up production from the remaining tanks.  In an exciting new development, EnerGaia sent its Operations Manager, Muhammet Doertkardes, to help inoculate the […]

EnerGaia won the Fish 2.0 at Stanford University

Saumil and Bonnie attended the Fish 2.0 finals at Stanford University.  EnerGaia won the Southeast Asia track of the competition.  The event catering team helped us to make spirulina smoothies for everyone to try, and we also brought samples of spirulina chips and energy balls which were very well received.  This enabled us to show […]

Second shipment to Phuket

On Wednesday, November 15th the EnerGaia team packed and sent a second shipment to Phuket for the spirulina farm under construction. The truck contained another 380 of our spirulina photobioreactors as well as laboratory equipment and processing equipment including an industrial scale dryer. We are happy to report that thetruck arrived safely and was fully […]

EnerGaia opens a new office in Dhaka, Bangladesh

At the beginning of the month Saumil visited the new EnerGaia office in Bangladesh and joined our local team to meet with suppliers such as RFL Plastic, implementation partners such as Winrock International and Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), and customers such as EPS. It was a very productive set of meetings, with an MOU being […]

First Prize at the Sankalp Southeast Asia conference

In September, Saumil attended the Sankalp Southeast Asia conference. EnerGaia won the first runner-up award for social businesses at the competition. In addition to catching up with Nicole from DFAT and several of the SecondMuse team members who were attending the conference, Saumil also met some interesting investors and fellow social entrepreneurs who were doing […]

First shipment to Phuket

On Sunday, September 17th the EnerGaia team packed a truck with 500 of our spirulina photobioreactors which went to a new farm currently under construction in Phuket with our partner, G-Food.  We are happy to report that the truck arrived safely and was fully unloaded the following morning.  The new farm expects to have its […]

EnerGaia establishes partnership in Phuket, Thailand

On Sunday, September 17th the EnerGaia team packed a truck with 500 of our spirulina photobioreactors which went to a new farm currently under construction in Phuket with our partner, G-Food.  We are happy to report that the truck arrived safely and was fully unloaded the following morning.  The new farm expects to have its […]

200 brand new bioreactors installed in Singapore

In Singapore, the new 200 bioreactor spirulina farm that EnerGaia installed with our partner, Ruyi Ventures, has begun operation!  As of September there were 80 tanks operating.  These would be used to scale-up production from the remaining tanks.  In an exciting new development, EnerGaia sent its Operations Manager, Muhammet Doertkardes, to help inoculate the bioreactors […]