Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez
Cofounder & Co-CEO
We are a sustainable packaging start-up
We are a combination of designers and chemists, engineers and entrepreneurs. We’re hard to define because what we’re doing hasn’t been done before. We create advanced packaging solutions that disappear, naturally.
How it happened
Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez and Pierre Paslier cofounded Skipping Rocks Lab in 2013 while studying Innovation Design Engineering at Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art.
After their first video of Ooho went viral in 2013, they joined Climate KIC, Europe’s largest funded accelerator focused on climate innovation.
The team started collaborating with chemists and chemical engineers from Imperial College to test Ooho at running events, festivals and takeaway shops. They soon started working on a scalable manufacturing technology.
In April 2017, they raised their first round on Crowdcube which helped grow the business, build the first machine and set up a manufacturing hub in London.
Sky Ocean Ventures invested in summer 2018 to accelerate the development of the second product and expand the chemistry, commercial, engineering and design teams.
NOTPLA, the material developed by Skipping Rocks Lab has expanded beyond just Ooho, and in 2019 the startup decided to give it a name and became NOTPLA.
The team
Pierre Paslier
Cofounder & Co-CEO
Lise Honsinger
CFO / CCO
Manuel Lopez
Head of Production
Matej Prokop
Lead Mechanical Engineer
Dr Gerald Donnelly
R&D Chemist
Hugo Lynch
Liner Project Lead
Ella O’Toole
Events Lead
Nicolas Trupin
Material Designer
August Ford
Production Designer
Ben Shaw
Mechanical Engineer
Will Bouette
Mechanical Engineer
Emily Cassius
Business Development
Océane Gaudinet
R&D Chemist
Funding & investors
Supporting the next generation of packaging
In April 2017, we raised £850,000 in a record 3 days on crowdfunding platform Crowdcube, thanks to the 900 investors who believed in our vision.
In August 2018, we raised our first VC round from Sky Ocean Ventures. As the first investment in their fund, we are pioneering through their Innovator in Residence a new way to collaborate between startups and corporations.
