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 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 pre-seed 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 raised a £4m seed round in dec. 2019, led by Lupa Systems and Astanor Ventures.
The team
Pierre Paslier
Cofounder & Co-CEO
Lise Honsinger
CFO / COO
Manuel Lopez
Ooho Technical lead & QSE Manager
Matej Prokop
Lead Mechanical Engineer
Dr Parvathy Chandran
R&D Chemist
Hugo Lynch
Liner Project Lead
Ella O’Toole
Operations Lead
August Ford
Production Designer
Ben Shaw
Mechanical Engineer
Ezbon Wallace
Machine Operator
Alexandra Blanchin
Business Account Manager
Océane Gaudinet
R&D Chemist
Vijay Tailor
Electronics Engineer
Massimiliano Mordini
Production
Fern Toynton
Culture, Wellness and Office Manager
Olga Sirodoeva
Advisory Board Member
Danny Pitt
Films Technical Lead
Juno Wilson
Project & Business Manager
Olivia Walker
Business Account Manager
Tom Postlethwaite
Designer
Mariana Delia Enea
Caretaker
Funding & investors
Supporting the next generation of packaging
We are not currently taking public investment. We will publish here when we are raising again!
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.
In Dec. 2019, we raised our seed round led by Impact VC funds Astanor Ventures and Lupa Systems, including participation from Doen Foundation, Torch Capital and our OG crowdfunding investors.
