Built at the intersection of biotech and industrial recycling.
Akin is developing a new molecular biorefinery approach for rubber. By combining expertise in molecular imaging, biotechnology, business, and engineering, we help the industry better understand rubber materials today and build toward higher-value recycled outputs tomorrow.
Our core team
Ieva Palubeckaite
PhD
CEO
Over a decade of analytical and enzyme expertise
Halithan Cetin
COO
Business consultant and researcher from ASML, PE, and MIT/Harvard
Eric Rutten
PhD
Senior Scientist
Microbiology PhD Oxford.
Caspar Quakkelaar
MSc
Bioprocess Engineer
Scaled bioreactors from benchtop to industrial at Meatable.
Scientific Partners
Prof. Dr. Anke Blume
Expert Elastomer Tech - University of Twente
Dr. Javier Araujo Morera
Expert Elastomer Tech - University of Twente
Advisory Team
Prof. Carsten Hopf
Expert Molecular Imaging
Rob Steenbrink
Entrepreneur and coach
Florian Barré PhD
Imaging Sales Specialist
Peter Rowe PhD
Serial Founder in Biotech
A new approach to rubber recovery.
The tools to recover real value from rubber waste now exist. Akin is bringing them together: molecular precision imaging, enzymatic recovery, and deep rubber science, into a platform built for industrial scale.
If you're a recycler, tire manufacturer, or investor looking to get ahead of where rubber circularity is going, we'd like to talk.