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The intelligence layer for
next-gen materials manufacturing.

DropForm guarantees your next-gen materials run on today’s equipment without trial-and-error, costly re-tooling, or line downtime.

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Our story

Natural Negative was founded to solve a problem we watched play out over years in industry: promising next-gen materials couldn’t make it from lab to production. We realised this shift doesn’t have to mean new equipment, added machine cost, or added risk.

We built DropForm to close the loop between what you’re making and how it performs, so companies can qualify with confidence, scale with fewer unknowns, and build supply chains they can rely on.

Our team

Scientists, engineers, and operators building the product manufacturing system of tomorrow.

Dr Kumar Krishnamoorthy

CTO & Co-founder

Dr Kumar
Krishnamoorthy

Dr Phoebe Heseltine

CEO & Co-founder

Dr Phoebe
Heseltine

Solomon Warsop

ML Engineer

Solomon Warsop

Anna Stobo

Polymer Science Lead

Anna Stobo

Kay Lucas

Production Engineer

Kay Lucas

Our secret sauce

DropForm

DropForm is our proprietary AI and software first operating system that de-risks the path of new next-gen formulations from lab to production line.

Why us

Fewer unknowns, fewer trials, access to materials and production

Scale with confidence.

A dependable path from lab quantities to production volumes.

Fewer surprises in production.

Bring a new material to the line with the unknowns understood up front.

Material performance you can rely on.

Know how a material will perform before you commit to it.

The material and the line stay yours.

Not locked to one material or converter.

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News and recognition

Packaging News

Natural Negative secures grant to accelerate alternatives to plastic

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The Argus

Brighton firm wins £100k to develop sustainable plastics

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Innovate UK

Innovate UK backs 100 women founders shaping the UK’s future industries

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UCL Engineering

UCL Engineering alumni Wang and Heseltine named Innovate UK Award winners

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EcoPlastics in Packaging

Why biobased plastics need to work on the factory floor

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LinkedIn

We’re delighted to share that we have joined the BBIA!

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LinkedIn

We’re proud to be a member of the BioRevolution Coalition – a new nation-wide campaign…

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