Palm oil is everywhere. It’s in our food, clothes, shampoo, and even the fuel that powers our cars. But this $61 billion industry has drastic environmental and societal costs: up to 300 football fields of rainforest are cleared every HOUR to make room for palm oil plantations -- releasing CO2 into the atmosphere and destroying entire ecosystems along the way.

Enter Shara Ticku and her company C16 Biosciences, the Y-Combinator-backed startup creating the world’s first synthetic palm oil alternative.

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