Valentyn FrechkaСo-founder & CTO of Releaf Paper

Founded by Valentyn Frechka and Alexander Sobolenko, Releaf Paper started as a secondary school project to extract high-quality cellulose from fallen leaves for Frechka, who was a member of the Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine at the time. Now, a Ukraine-based startup develops a patented technology to process fallen leaves into cellulose for paper production.