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Lakril Technologies

Bio-based acrylic acid made from plant sugars

Raised to date

$30K

of $1.6M offered across 1 Form D filing

Still open
$1.6M
Investors
3
Last filed
Jun 1, 2026

About

Lakril Technologies (Låkril) is a Chicago-based specialty chemicals startup commercializing bio-based acrylic acid made from renewable sugars instead of petroleum. Its patent-pending thermochemical catalyst converts lactic acid into acrylic acid in a single-step dehydration reaction, using feedstocks such as corn, cane and sugar beet that can plug into existing fermentation infrastructure. The company sells acrylics and licenses its catalyst and process technology to the acrylics value chain. It has completed front-end engineering for a production facility in the 40,000-50,000 metric ton per year range.

A drop-in, molecule-for-molecule replacement for petroleum acrylic acid that the company claims reaches true cost parity with no green premium while cutting CO2 emissions by more than 80 percent, so downstream manufacturers need no reformulation.

Funding

  • Option to acquireFiled Jun 1, 2026Form D
    $30K/ $1.6M

Product

Bio-based acrylic acid (Låkril Amber Process)

Specialty chemicals / industrial catalysis

Sustainable acrylic acid and acrylate derivatives produced by catalytic dehydration of lactic acid derived from renewable sugars, together with the catalyst and process technology behind it.

  • Single-step catalytic dehydration of alpha-hydroxy acids to acrylic acid
  • Drop-in chemical equivalence with petroleum-derived acrylic acid
  • Feedstock flexibility across corn, sugarcane, sugar beet and waste sugar streams

Built for

Chemical producers and downstream manufacturers in the acrylics value chain - paints and coatings, adhesives, and superabsorbent polymers - a market the company sizes at over $25 billion globally

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