Mar 6, 2018
NC State MBA Startup Tethis Receives Wolfpack Investor Network’s Largest Capital Raise to Date
The Tethis team initially developed a business concept based on using a corn-based fiber – developed by professors Joel Pawlak and Richard Venditti in NC State’s College of Natural Resources – to filter pollutants out of water used in the fracking process, before pivoting their business to focus on producing biodegradable absorbent material for diapers.