# BIOFORANY

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/bioforany

- Industry: Biotechnology
- Headquarters: Changshu, China
- Total disclosed funding: $7.7M
- Latest round: Angel (Apr 19, 2022)
- Investors on record: 2

## About

Established in and based in Changshu, China,  Suzhou Baifuan Enzyme Technology Co., Ltd. doing business named BIOFORANY, is a biotechnology company engaged in developing, producing and selling amine compounds, functional chemicals of sex alcohols and enzyme-based green synthesis products. The founder of the company, Professor Xu Jianhe, graduated from Tsinghua University with a degree in chemistry. As of 2022, this company has established an R&D center in Shanghai and a pilot site in Suzhou. In May 2023, BIOFORANY raised pre-series A funding from new investor Chengwei Capital. 

The company is mainly engaged in developing and selling biocatalysis. Its products include chiral alcohols, chiral amines, chiral hydroxy acids, amino acids, chiral epoxides, and coenzymes, which use synthetic biology technology, industrial enzyme gene mining and medication platform.  Those products are used in the fields of pharmaceutical intermediate, functional foods, animal nutrition, plant protection, and environmental materials.  It also has enzymatic production lines with an annual capacity of 300 tons of diltiazem, an enzymatic production line with an annual capacity of 100 tons of (R)-lipoic acid and an enzymatic production line with an annual capacity of 30 tons of high-end flavour (R)-alkyl lactone.

## Funding rounds

- Angel, Apr 19, 2022, $7.7M — Hong Shan, Empower Investment

## Investors

- Hong Shan — Angel
- Empower Investment (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/empower-investment) — Angel