The Supplant Company

The Supplant Company is a Cambridge, UK-based food ingredient company that upcycles fiber-rich agricultural side-streams — corn cobs, corn stalks, wheat straw, rice straw, and sugarcane stalks — into a brand-new category of sugars. Using a proprietary enzyme-based process, the company breaks down the long sugar chains locked inside plant fiber into shorter chains that behave like cane sugar in food products while retaining the nutritional profile of fiber: low-glycemic, prebiotic, and low-calorie. Founded by Dr. Tom Simmons, a carbohydrate and plant scientist, The Supplant Company's flagship ingredient — Supplant Sugars from Fiber — targets the dual crisis of chronic disease driven by excess sugar consumption and the environmental damage caused by conventional sugarcane agriculture. The company sells to food manufacturers, foodservice operators, and retailers, and is a Y Combinator graduate backed by celebrity investors including Ayesha Curry and Chris Paul.