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Daniel Sanders
I'm working on
a month ago
Self-heating chewing gum that opens the oral mucosa mid-chew to deliver actives directly to the bloodstream, bypassing PO: onset in 6 minutes instead of 14, 60% loading, and nano-encapsulated taste isolation for actives that are otherwise undeliverable.
I'm looking for
a month ago
Category-exclusive licensing and co-development. Brand owners wanting a format rivals cannot copy; ingredient suppliers whose actives are blocked by taste or poor oral bioavailability; pharma exploring intraoral reformulation. Upfront, milestones, royalty. Plus a $2M seed equity.
About
I am a serial inventor in oral care with 50+ international patents and 15+ years in the category. UltraOral answers a problem the industry has lived with for decades. The mouth is an ideal route to the bloodstream, but nothing stays there long enough to use it - it is swallowed instead. Measured on excised buccal tissue, conventional gum does not begin transmucosal transport until 13.8 minutes; people spit gum out at 5 to 15. Our patented thermo-active gum warms as it is chewed, bringing onset down to 6.0 minutes, so the active reaches the bloodstream before the gum is spat out. I work with brand owners, ingredient suppliers and pharma teams on actives blocked by taste, poor bioavailability or first-pass loss. My team spans biomaterials, industrial chemistry and clinical dentistry.
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AgingCoatingsCognitive NeuroscienceDrug DeliveryFood Chemistry & BiochemistryFood Science
Last updated Aug 2026
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