Our founding story.

Brett and TJ met in a pub just south of London Bridge.

The pair coincidentally moved five minutes away from each other and met at a startup accelerator called Entrepreneur First.

After joining the accelerator, the two began experimenting in TJ's kitchen, turning the waste from local Bermondsey breweries into their very early prototypes.

Today, Arda has gone from kitchen-to-lab, filed IP, expanded the team, won funding from the UK government, raised from venture investors, and are progressing rapidly toward their MVP for brands to engage more readily with the material.