Dr. Francesco Benedetti is a cofounder of Osmoses and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Osmoses develops and commercializes clean solutions to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions associated with industrial separation processes. Focused on gas separations powered by precisely engineered membrane technology, Osmoses is targeting processes involving production and smart distribution of hydrogen, biogas upgrading to renewable natural gas (RNG), oxygen production from air, and helium harvesting from diluted resources. Osmoses is funded by top venture capital firms, including Engine Ventures, Energy Capital Ventures, and Fine Structure Ventures, and supported by state and federal government organizations such as the DOE, ARPA-E, NSF, ONR, MassCEC, and NYSERDA.

Benedetti earned his PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy and worked as a Postdoctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a 2019/2020 MIT Energy Fellowship, a 2021 Activate Fellowship, and was an NSF I-Corps Entrepreneurial Lead in 2021.