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January 28, 2022

Enter the kelpon: Vyld raises pre-seed funding for seaweed tampon

If all goes to plan, the new product will be ready for mass production by the end of this year


Seaweed has been crowned a superfood in recent years, used in everything from meat substitutes to skincare products. A Berlin-based startup thinks it’s also the key ingredient to making sustainable tampons, a product it's catchily named "kelpons".

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Vyld founder and CEO Ines Schiller is a certified marine guide, social entrepreneur, screenwriter/film producer, philosopher and neuroscientist.
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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington is a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covers the DACH region and the future of work, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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