David Tze

CEO and Acting Founder through 2024/$27M funding: NovoNutrients™–carbon capture utilization–biomanufacturing protein for food/feed, from CO2, H2, energy, water. Now applying AI to unusual innovation.

David led the food and feed for CO2 company, NovoNutrients, for 7.5 years. In 2025, he became a full-time senior advisor to the firm, which ultimately wound down. NovoNutrients was a bio company that's cleanly transformed carbon dioxide emissions into high-quality, affordable alternative protein ingredients for feed and food.

Originally, David became NovoNutrients' investor, pivoter, and CEO. Prior, David had been the sole manager of the seed fund Aquacopia, with five companies focused on aquaculture. The fund led investments into Open Blue, InnovaSea, and Futuna. Including a prior start-up, NetworkOil, that David co-founded as CTO, those six companies raised more than $250M. NetworkOil was an online industrial marketplace later renamed Network International and acquired by Liquidity Services (NASDAQ: LQDT). After graduating from Princeton, David began his career in internet pioneering general management, corporate development, and technology sales.