Arsenale joins the 2025 Norrsken Impact/100

A new industrial era is taking shape.

It won’t be driven by scale for its own sake, or growth that disregards externalities. It won’t be built in the image of the last industrial revolution, that gave us centralized production, linear supply chains, and an economic model premised on depletion.

This developing neo-industrial era, is distributed, intelligent and regenerative. It’s shaped by entrepreneurs, engineers, and thinkers who are rebuilding the material basis of our world.

The Norrsken Impact/100 is more than a list. It’s a signal. A snapshot of the kind of companies that are building what comes next – from climate-resilient food systems to data for planetary health, next-generation transportation, and new paradigms in materials, health, and energy.

We’re part of this movement. But we’re also watching it, learning from others like Notpla (replacing single-use plastic with seaweed), Arkeon (converting CO₂ into essential nutrients), or Loam Bio (supercharging carbon sequestration in soil) as well as many more. These businesses are signals of a shift in how we grow, produce, and steward the systems we depend on.

At Arsenale, we are building the industrial infrastructure for biology. Not the kind borrowed from pharma or retrofitted from chemical engineering, but a new architecture designed from first principles. One that integrates advanced bioreactors, AI-driven process design, and intelligent supply chains to enable radically more viable, more scalable, and more sustainable biomanufacturing.

We believe this infrastructure will catalyze what comes next: the transition from high-potential promise to high-performance systems. Not through heroic single breakthroughs, but through the accumulation of engineered advantage, one that collapses cost, shrinks time-to-scale, and unlocks a wider design space for products co-designed with nature.

Recognition from Norrsken is not a trophy. It’s a marker. A moment to pause and acknowledge that we, and others, are working to bend the arc of the possible. Not alone, but as part of a broader community that believes, that we’re on the cusp of a once-in-a-century restructuring of our economy, our energy, and our institutions.

The challenge ahead is not just to invent, but to industrialize, to make real, to operationalize at scale.
That’s the work we’ve set out to do.

Explore all the incredible businesses on the 2025 Impact/100 list: