Cellsense transforms algae and cellulose into sustainable beads and beaded fabrics for the fashion, jewelry, and beauty industries. Cellsense’s proprietary material replaces sources of microplastics and heavy metal pollution while offering designers a wide range of brilliant colors, clarities, and properties such as fluorescence. Their innovative manufacturing system cuts lead time of customized beaded products from weeks to days by eliminating expensive tooling and tedious manual labor from conventional processes. After raising a preseed round, Cellsense is currently focused on scaling up their process while engaging with collaborators in paid pilots. For their fourth pilot they delivered exfoliating fabric pads to skincare company FKA Haeckels.