Kybele’s Garden turns algae fermentation into farm inputs at 500 metric tons a year

Kybele’s Garden, an algae biotechnology company founded in 2021 at METU Technopolis in Ankara, says its algae fermentation platform now serves agriculture and cosmetics under two brands. Next Algae supplies agriculture with a capacity of 500 metric tons per year, and Algaenium supplies cosmetics with a capacity of one metric ton per year.

The platform works on micro- and macroalgae, including Chlorella, Spirulina and Ascophyllum. Selected bacteria and yeasts open the cell wall and break large molecules into smaller, usable ones. The company says the result is a standardized raw material that partners add to their own fertilizers and cosmetic formulas.

According to the company, it closed a USD 250,000 pre-seed round in 2024 and a USD 420,000 seed round in 2025. It has filed three patent applications and was a finalist for the MassChallenge Switzerland program.

This month the company launched a renewed website in English, Turkish, Arabic, Chinese and Spanish. It also introduced Algaenizer, an AI-supported formulation service that opened on 2 November to agrifood and cosmetics stakeholders and is now open to selected partners. Kybele’s Garden says its CTO, Mehmet Can Sucu, will speak at the UK Seaweed Conference in Oban, Scotland, on 18 November, and that it will exhibit at Growtech Antalya, Türkiye, from 24 to 27 November.