Our Story
Building
A Bio-Future
EntoZyme was formed in February 2024 as a spin-out from Macquarie University, focused on applying synthetic biology methods to engineer the Black Soldier Fly (BSF), Hermetia illucens. EntoZyme is redefining waste management and biomanufacturing with synthetic biology. Using genetically engineered black soldier flies (BSF), we turn organic waste into sustainable high-value products such as improved animal feed ingredients, industrial enzymes, and enhanced fertilizers. Our innovative approach addresses global challenges in organic waste management, climate change, and sustainable biomanufacturing.
Our vision is to catalyse a circular economy by harnessing the power of biology. Inspired by nature and driven by innovation, EntoZyme aims to make BSF a robust platform for sustainable waste valorisation and high-value bioproducts, ensuring a cleaner, greener planet.
Nudging natural systems for genius results.
Our Mission
For the last two centuries, the global economy has made things with a linear approach. We’ve extracted materials from the environment, processed them into short-lived products and then thrown things into landfills after we’re done with using them. This form of manufacturing has left a brutish footprint that can be measured in modified landscapes, toxic landfills, harmful emissions, and untreated wastewater. But time is catching up. Where previous centuries in science have empowered the technologies of extraction, leading research in applied and synthetic biology is creating entirely new possibilities.
At EntoZyme, we’re working with the genetics of flies and insects and their voracious appetite for waste.
Our Product
working with nature as a partner, rather than a resource.
We’re able to make materials in our economy flow in circular systems, not linear lines by working with nature as a partner, rather than a resource.
EntoZyme is a bright spark of optimism for a bioinspired future. We’re filling a fundamental niche that can create a step-change toward circular systems of biomanufacturing, with exciting implications.