Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez
Cofounder & Co-CEO
Making packaging disappear
We are on a mission to make packaging disappear.
Our portfolio of advanced, all-natural packaging solutions made from seaweed and plants are naturally biodegradable and home-compostable, just like a piece of fruit.
Each product responds to a specific plastic problem we identified across multiple industries, from electronics, fashion, and cosmetics to food. We innovate along the manufacturing chain, developing materials, proprietary manufacturing machines, techniques, and novel formats and designs of consumer products.
Our story
Co-founders of Notpla, Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez and Pierre Paslier, met while studying Innovation Design Engineering at Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art.
After their first video of an edible bubble encapsulating water went viral, they collaborated with chemists and chemical engineers from Imperial College to develop their first product, Ooho.
In 2019 the brand Notpla was born, an abbreviation of ‘not plastic’, accompanied by an identity and brand strategy that better represents our mission and values and positions us as an environmental sustainability leader.
Notpla partnered with Lucozade to replace single-use plastic cups and bottles with 36,000 Ooho at the London Marathon. Worked with Just Eat to launch a food container coated with seaweed, a revolutionary move for the takeaway industry that has traditionally relied on plastic or chemicals to hold food. Closed a £10 million Series A financing round to rapidly accelerate our portfolio’s industrialisation.
Funding & Investors
In April 2017, we raised £850,000 (in three days!) on Crowdcube, and received hundreds of millions of views on social media.
Our first VC funding from Sky Ocean Ventures in 2018 accelerated the development of the second generation of the Ooho machine.
We raised our seed round in 2019, led by impact VC funds Astanor Ventures and Lupa Systems, which enabled the development of Notpla Coating and the team’s expansion.
In December 2021, we closed a £10 million Series A financing round led by Horizons Ventures, with participation from existing investors Astanor Ventures, Lupa Systems and Torch Capital.
Funding & investors
Media
We are widely featured as pioneers of seaweed and the emerging sustainable packaging markets. Discover a selection of our latest media appearances here.
Meet the team
Pierre Paslier
Cofounder & Co-CEO
Lise Honsinger
COO
Karlijn Sibbel
Design Director
Tristan Kaye
Commercial Director
Seb Bregeaud
Development & Manufacturing Director
Louise Anderson
Research Director
Ella O’Toole
Product Manager Coating
Fern Toynton
Culture, Wellness & Office Manager
Matej Prokop
Senior Engineer
Manu Lopez
Development Chemist
August Ford
Product Designer
Océane Gaudinet
Research Chemist
Danny Pitt
Development Chemist
Niall Russell
Head of Marketing
Margaux Deguerre
Marketing Manager
Kendra Quinn
Impact Manager
Tom Postlethwaite
Product Designer & Space Manager
Charlie Nunn
Product Design & Production Associate
Ben Fullerton
Communications Designer
Poppy Pippin
Product Design & Production Associate
Cecile Roques
Product Manager
Ana Elvira Fuentes Mejia
Management Team Assistant
Ellie Perry
Prototyping & Design
Tessa Robinson
Account Manager
Ceri Rees
Account Manager
Flora Blathwayt
Business Development Manager
Callum Wardle
Process Engineer
Leila Belasri
Materials Development Engineer
Elin Green
Industrialisation Manager
Mashal Hussain
Business Development Manager
Umeshan Vigneswaran
Finance Manager
Amaya Jones
Research Associate & Lab Manager
Lulu Wallis
Account Manager
Andre Gaduan
Research Scientist
Callum Rhodes
People & Talent Manager
Grace Cohen
Research Associate
Humphrey Atkinson
Product Manager
Hattie Freeman
Business Services Associate
Dan Watson
Production Associate
Dan Whitaker
Research Chemist
Elliot Denvir
FP&A Manager
Eleonora Rombolà
Product Design Associate
Jamie Waller
Business Development Associate
Lucy Romo García
Business Development Manager
Florence Culleton
Business Development Associate
Callum O’Connell
Seaweed Sourcing Manager
Nick Hooton
Product Manager
Alex James
Business Development Manager
Erinc Bahcegul
Senior Research Scientist
Nick Williams
Operations Associate
States Lee
Mechanical Engineer
Ozge Bektasoglu
Supply Chain & Procurement Manager
Conor Ludden
Business Development Manager
Stive Pregent
Senior Research Scientist
Ayla de Heney
Account Manager & Seaweed Sourcing Manager
Zaid Moosa
Grants Manager
Jorge Garaffa
Growth Lead
Yoon Kim
People Associate
Chiara Ferrari
Marketing & Content Associate
Siméon Lang
Industrialisation Intern
