Cellana (company)

Cellana, Inc.

Formerly	HR BioPetroleum (2004–11)
Company type	Private
Industry	Energy, health care
Founded	2004; 20 years ago (2004) in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Founders	C. Barry Raleigh, Ph.D. Mark Huntley, Ph.D.
Headquarters	Kailua-Kona and San Diego , U.S.
Key people	Martin A. Sabarsky, CEO [1] Avery Kramer, VP of Operations
Products	ReNew algae, omega-3, algae oil, animal feed
Number of employees	15
Website	cellana.com

Cellana, Inc. is an American company which develops of algae-based bioproducts for high-value nutrition, ink, and bioenergy applications, including Omega-3 nutraceutical applications, sustainable ink, aquaculture and animal feeds, human food ingredients, pigments, specialty chemicals, and biofuels. The company, with offices in Hawaii and San Diego, has received (or has been a member of consortia that have received) multiple multimillion-dollar grants from the United States Department of Energy and United States Department of Agriculture.

KDF is located on a 2.5-hectare (6.2-acre) parcel of land leased from the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA), which is located on the west shore of the island of Hawaii. NELHA pipes in a constant supply of fresh ocean water. NELHA was originally built to support a DOE project for ocean thermal energy conversion, and it continues to employ the project's seawater supply pipes to support a variety of research projects and commercial enterprises, including facilities that currently grow and harvest microalgae for pharmaceuticals and nutritional supplements. Cellana's facility grows only non-genetically modified, marine microalgae species using proprietary technology.