Folia Materials

Folia's patented nano coating metallizes paper to outcompete and replace plastic, replacing plastic across many use cases, with food packaging our initial focus

  • Stage $500K in TTM Revenue
  • Industry Chemicals and Chemical Products
  • Location Bedford, MA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded January 2016
  • Employees 12
  • Incorporation Type B-corp
  • Website foliamaterials.com

Company Summary

Folia Paper Delivers Better Microwave Food, Increasing CPG Sales—
Folia’s metallized paper converts microwaves to thermal energy to evenly heat food, while paper soaks up water and grease, unlike plastic, so that microwaved food is no longer soggy and gross. Result: better tasting, crispier food from the microwave.

-Patented, recyclable, 25% less expensive
-Industrial manufacturing scaled using $3M in grants and $2M in pilot revenue

Team

  • Jonathan Levine
    CEO and Co-Founder

    I have a Columbia PhD in earth and environmental engineering and was a Department of Energy scientist. I worked on global environmental problems: drinking water in Africa, grid-scale thermal energy storage, billion-tonne disposal of carbon dioxide *under* deep oceans, national-scale CO2 disposal, methane emissions, and deep sea oil/gas blowouts like Deepwater Horizon.

  • Theresa Dankovich
    CTO and Co-Founder

    Cornell — BS Fiber Science
    UC Davis — MS Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry
    McGill — PhD Chemistry (Materials)
    Post-Doc Researcher, University of Virginia
    Post-Doc Associate, Carnegie Mellon

  • Anthony Occidentale
    COO

    MIT mechanical engineer with 10 years of experience in clean tech, industrial manufacturing, and consumer products, as well as a strong background in product design, innovation, strategic commercial relationships, and entrepreneurship. Multiple patents, having successfully launched and commercialized several products and brands. Scaling startups from 1 to exit.

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