While completing his MD/PhD work in cancer biology, Gaurab discovered an enzyme in pancreatic cancer that could efficiently catalyze oxidation reactions to produce hydrogen peroxide and other oxygenates chemistries. At the same time, Sean was at MIT completing his PhD in chemical engineering on the production of hydrogen peroxide using next-generation, green metal catalysts. Gaurab and Sean became fast friends over a game of poker and realized that they were both solving very similar problems, albeit from vastly different worlds. They came together with the same passion to decarbonize the world and scaled up their first process technology to produce Bioperoxide™ from plant sugars.