A Stanford spinout

Reinforcement, Reinvented.

We make an engineered carbon additive that gives concrete the one property it has always lacked: tensile strength. It doses like an ordinary admixture and prices like one too.

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Stanford spinout
Up to +76% tensile strength in early, unoptimized cement-paste tests
Under 1% dose, admixture-class pricing
Independent ASTM-aligned concrete testing is next

We fix concrete before the crack.

Rebar bridges cracks after they form. Thicker sections just lower the stress. Both pile mass and labor around the same material flaw.

Form-1 puts the strength inside the material instead: engineered carbon reinforcement, distributed through the cement itself, at admixture economics. Less steel, less concrete, and more capability from every pour.

Concrete's oldest problem

After water, concrete is the most used material on Earth: around 30 billion tonnes a year, roughly 950 tonnes every second. And every cubic meter carries the same flaw. Concrete is about ten times weaker in tension than in compression, so cracks decide how long it lasts. The workaround has always been steel.

$0.65
spent on rebar for every $1 spent on cement
25%
of global steel goes into reinforcing concrete
1 in 3
U.S. bridges need repair or replacement

Form-1: strength from within

Form-1 is a proprietary carbon composite, produced in a single-step synthesis, that works as internal reinforcement in cementitious materials. We make the reinforcement and the delivery system together, so there is no separate dispersion step and no exotic handling. It doses like a conventional admixture, at less than 1% of cement weight.

up to +76%
tensile strength in early, unoptimized cement-paste tests
<1%
of cement weight per dose
Lower CO2
than the cement and steel it displaces

Where it matters first

We start where tensile strength is the entire purchase.

Concrete pipe

Where a single load test qualifies a product, tensile gains mean thinner walls from the same molds, or the same wall sold at a higher load class.

Industrial floors

Flexural strength sets slab thickness. Real tensile gains mean thinner slabs, less mesh and fiber, and less placement labor.

Precast

Precast plants control the mix, the molds, and the testing. That makes them the fastest place to qualify a new material, with gains showing up as lighter elements and higher load ratings.

Pavements

Flexural strength governs pavement design too. Stronger concrete can mean thinner sections and better crack control from the same paving train.

With partners, we are also exploring places reinforcement can't go, like 3D-printed construction. Talk to us about a partnership

Founders

Kelan Bomar
Kelan Bomar
Co-Founder & CEO

Chemical engineer turned commercial operator. Six years selling technical products into regulated markets at Stryker and Corning; repeat founder. Concrete is qualified through specs and evidence, and that is the sales motion he has run his whole career.

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Henry Moise
Henry Moise
Co-Founder & CTO

Inventor of the Form-1 process. Stanford ChemE PhD with eight years in high-temperature process engineering and hard-tech scale-up. Still an engineer.

News & updates

Aug 2026

The 2027 producer trial program opens for reservations, with a limited number of slots for pipe, precast, and industrial-floor producers. Learn more

2026

First-generation Form-1 shows up to +76% tensile strength in early cement-paste testing, before any optimization. Independent concrete validation is next.

2026

PetraForm is founded to commercialize Form-1 as a concrete strength additive.

2025

The technology behind Form-1 is selected for Stanford's Sustainability Accelerator.

2024

The research behind Form-1 begins at Stanford.

Make concrete products?

If you produce pipe, precast, ready-mix, or printed concrete, we would genuinely like to learn how you evaluate new materials. Our 2027 trial program has a limited number of slots.

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