SOS Biotech (Elena Martínez) has been awarded the Ibero-American Young Entrepreneur Award.

This International Women’s Day, we’re turning the spotlight on the powerhouse women redefining ocean food.

Latin American beaches are overflowing with an invasive seaweed called sargassum, and climate change is only making matters worse. A new wave of fashion innovators say they have a solution.

Turning an environmental problem into a solution is the approach taken by SOS Biotech, a biotechnology company from the Dominican Republic co-founded by the Spanish entrepreneur Elena Martínez. The company transforms sargassum—an algae relentlessly fought across the Caribbean—into commercial products that are already available in the country.

Massive blooms of sargassum seaweed are choking Caribbean coastlines – threatening marine life, deterring tourism and damaging coastal economies – but where others see a threat, SOS Biotech is already turning the invasive species into valuable products.

Transforming an invasive seaweed crisis into an economic success story

SOS Biotech, a pioneer in blue biotechnology, participated in COP 16, held in Saudi Arabia.

SOS Biotech, an emerging blue biotechnology organization based in the Dominican Republic, has been selected as one of the 30 winning teams of MIT Solve 2024.