Niels van Stralen is CEO and Co-founder of circular chemicals scale-up ChainCraft. During his MSc in Biotechnology and based on IP of Wageningen University, he started ChainCraft. Since starting in 2010, the company scaled up the technology through its lab, pilot and demo phases, commercialized products and raised up to €40M in equity, debt and subsidies to realize the sustainable vision of ChainCraft.