Alta Resource Technologies
Using advanced biochemistry to create a secure supply of critical minerals from waste and other low-grade sources
First Investment: 2017
HelixNano is developing new ways to manipulate messenger RNA, the molecule that delivers information from genes to the cell’s protein factories. One of HelixNano’s advances makes mRNA vaccines more targeted and more powerful; the company is using this technique to advance a mutation-resistant, second-generation vaccine against the SARS-CoV‑2 virus that causes Covid-19.
