# GrassTB Revolutionize the way we produce paper products to help planet Earth for generations to come. ## Elevator pitch At GrassTB Corporation, we are currently focusing on producing pulps and paper products using 100% grass-based. - Canonical URL: https://wefunder.com/grasstb - Entity ID: wefunder:company:95565 - Last updated: 2026-06-22T05:03:24Z - Generated at: 2026-06-22T19:35:24Z ## Quick facts - 100% grass products - Eliminate cutting trees for paper making. - Sustainable - Abundant and locally available. Cheaper to process. Eco-friendly. - Reduce plastic waste - Reduce single-use plastic wastes on land and in oceans. - Manufacture in USA - create jobs opportunities for the community ## Active fundraises - wefunder:fundraise:50110: 4(a)(6) successful (USD) - wefunder:fundraise:50111: 4(a)(6) successful (USD) ## Story Forward-looking projections cannot be guaranteed.Disclaimer: These projections cannot be guaranteed. Based on 3 years with the maximum potential raise of funds. ## FAQ 1. **Your investment pitch is unreadable in the mobile app. Too tiny and zoom is disabled.** - I can see that problem now. This is wefunder set up but let us contact wefunder to have the problem fix. Thank you for pointing that out. 2. **You show revenue projections, but it doesn't say what year those revenue projections are for. Can you clarify?** - Our revenue projection is for when we complete the build out with all the machines go at full capacity and making products to sell. 3. **Hello, I love the sustainability of this idea. Do you have any info on how the products you've produced so far have been received by customers/consumers? Do you have any sales at present and if so, could you share that info? Are there any downsides to paper produced from 100% ...** - Hi John, Thank you for your support and thoughtful inquiries. Due to the limited number of machines we had last year, we were only able to produce a small batch of napkins. We distributed the napkins to potential investors and businesses. We only recently started selling them at local Farmer’s Markets to allow more people to experience our product and raise public awareness. There are absolutely no disadvantages to using grass pulp instead of tree pulp for paper. Grass is not only more abunda... 4. **Is the cost of the product higher or lower than traditional paper napkins on the market? Could you also do this to Palm frons? Since a lot of cities have them too and potentially ever lasting supply.** - Our cost is lower than traditional paper products in many ways. For instance, abundant supply, lower cost to obtain material, and quick turnaround. From grass to paper products, it takes us less than 24 hours. Most leaves, such as palm fronds, do not have many fibers in them. Limited supply is also a factor that makes fronds uneconomical. 5. **Hello again, is your trade secret patentable?** - Yes, but at this moment we are not going to. Look at KFC or Coca-Cola. They don't give away their secret ingredients. Big guys will crush us at this moment if we do. ## Team - Bao Ho (CEO) ## Q&A - Q: Sounds like an amazing project, is it possible to print books from grass as well? And what is the cost of production Is it more expensive than regular paper cheaper? Significantly expensive? - A: We made sample printing papers before (handmade). From what we know, any paper can be made with our pulp as long as one has the machine to make it. So, to answer your question, it is Yes. However, printing paper requires lots more than a machine such as additives to prevent ink running, adhesive, moisture resistant, bleach.... This is on our menu but we won't tackle it at this moment due to budget. Our cost will be lower than traditional companies using wood based pulp for sure. We market our products based on their environmental impacts too. If priced competitively, consumers will change their view to accept our product since it is eco friendly. - Q: Hello, I love the sustainability of this idea. Do you have any info on how the products you've produced so far have been received by customers/consumers? Do you have any sales at present and if so, could you share that info? Are there any downsides to paper produced from 100% grass versus wood pulp? E.g., durability, absorbency, printability. Being in Denver, what is your plan to secure raw material in the winter months? This is a really interesting pitch. I wish you great success. - Hello Bao, thank you for your thorough answers below to my, and others' questions. This is a really good idea. Will do more research. 😀 - Hello Bao, thank you for answering my patent question. I learned something. I didn't know that Coca Cola & KFC don't have patents on their recipes because of the consequences. - A: Hi John, Thank you for your support and thoughtful inquiries. Due to the limited number of machines we had last year, we were only able to produce a small batch of napkins. We distributed the napkins to potential investors and businesses. We only recently started selling them at local Farmer’s Markets to allow more people to experience our product and raise public awareness. There are absolutely no disadvantages to using grass pulp instead of tree pulp for paper. Grass is not only more abundant and available to us but also grows at an astronomical rate compared to trees. We don’t have to wait years for it to mature, only days. As for the quality of paper compared to trees, we are relatively the same. Printability is a manufacturing technique. Thickness, pressures, additives... can create specialty papers such as printing papers. Every paper company uses chemicals such as adhesive, gels, or glues in order to make paper more absorbent and water repellent. However, our company strives to be more sustainable therefore we have eliminated these additives for a cleaner environment. Most of our products are one-time use, therefore it is not necessary to use excessive chemicals. Due to the 100% natural composition of our product versus traditional paper, grass paper will dissolve and decompose back into the earth within a few days. Seasons should not affect our company’s production schedule. Our summer months are geared towards pulp production and accumulation and winter months have increased paper production rather than grass collection. Last year, grass was set aside outside from June to November, yet the grass fiber was still completely suitable. Grass can be used even if set aside for up to 6 months. - Q: You show revenue projections, but it doesn't say what year those revenue projections are for. Can you clarify? - A: Our revenue projection is for when we complete the build out with all the machines go at full capacity and making products to sell. - Q: Do you intend to pay a dividend (post-conversion)? - A: The note matures in 3 year with a simple interest of 6% per annum. However, we are pretty sure that every investor would like to convert their investments into equity. - Q: Will the convertible note become common or preferred equity? What was your inspiration behind this product? Has this been pitched to any major brands? - A: The convertible note will become common equity. Our biggest inspiration is that we want to show the world that many products can be made with grass. Save the planet and stop cutting trees if we make the switch. We gradually switch to electric vehicles, why not gradually switch to grass? At this point, we are not mass production ready so we have not pitched our product to major brands. Our focus right now is to build machines to enable us to mass produce. - Q: Since it sounds like your raw materials are obtained from a waste stream that you have limited control over, are you concerned about contamination from pesticides, herbicides, or pet waste (especially for products intended for contact with food)? Also, large lawns are generally regarded as bad for the environment, and it's hard to imagine a sustainable future that includes generating a large amount of lawn clippings. Even though I don't imagine that large lawns will go away anytime this century, has any thought been given to ethical implications of effectively providing a subsidy for suburban sprawl? Would this technology be adaptable to using farmed grass or other waste fibers instead? - A: We discussed farming our own grass before as this will save a lot of resources for our company such as labor, cleanliness, transportation... Due to financial restraint, we cannot take this approach at the moment. We spoke to two hay farmers but they are unwilling to change their operation for the small amount of grass we intend to purchase. Their hay is unsuitable for use so we have to settle with collections for now. Our manufacturing process eliminates all waste, pesticides, or herbicides that you mentioned. This is our Trade Secret that we believe no other company has at this time. Trees also have many contaminants that you mentioned. Paper mills are able to eliminate those, and thus, you don't see them in their products. - Q: Hello, Bamboo is a grass; are the grass clippings you're using from lawns, and how is this different? Thank you. - A: Yes, we use lawn grass. Normally, these are thrown away. Bamboos are very tree-like. They provide many benefits like trees such as wildlife habitat, cooling the environment... Furthermore, limited supply is a big factor too. We don't consider this a good source of material to use since it destroys and harms the ecosystem while the grass we use is abundant and easy to grow. - Q: As a Colorado-based environmentalist, I love this idea. It strikes me that your greatest carbon expenditure would likely come from transporting grass to your facilities at scale. Do you collect grass from homeowners/businesses? And if so, do you use EVs? Are the homeowners/businesses compensated? - A: Currently, we have a few landscaping companies to dump their grass clipping at our yard. Then we load them into our truck and transfer them to our facility. As we get more funds and expand our business, EV trucks are a must for us. At this moment, there is no EV Truck available and we don't even have the fund for it anyway. Landscaping companies have to pay the trash facility to dump their grass clipping. We save them this money by allowing them to dump grass in our yard. Thus, they are not compensated for giving us the grass. - Q: Hello again, is your trade secret patentable? - A: Yes, but at this moment we are not going to. Look at KFC or Coca-Cola. They don't give away their secret ingredients. Big guys will crush us at this moment if we do. - Q: Is the cost of the product higher or lower than traditional paper napkins on the market? Could you also do this to Palm frons? Since a lot of cities have them too and potentially ever lasting supply. - A: Our cost is lower than traditional paper products in many ways. For instance, abundant supply, lower cost to obtain material, and quick turnaround. From grass to paper products, it takes us less than 24 hours. Most leaves, such as palm fronds, do not have many fibers in them. Limited supply is also a factor that makes fronds uneconomical. - Q: Your investment pitch is unreadable in the mobile app. Too tiny and zoom is disabled. - A: I can see that problem now. This is wefunder set up but let us contact wefunder to have the problem fix. Thank you for pointing that out. - Q: Hi Bao, Why don't you contact https://www.trugreen.com/ about investing. It would probably be worth it for them just as PR alone. I would really, really like for you to be able to proceed with this. There are probably other sizable companies as well to consider. There may be other companies like major office parks, condo groups with large grass areas that would like favorable environmental PR. They can also compel their lawn care companies to supply you. - Q: We love your strategy and are interested in participating. However, I'm not sure the investment funds you have raised thus far are sufficient to fund your needs, even though this appears to be a very viable project. Do you have other sources of funds you can attract, to provide the minimum necessary to proceed? - A: You are correct. We don't get enough participation and the investments so far are to help us to keep the lights on until we find some major commitments. Grass can be turned into many useful products. It is only that they haven't seen what our company is capable of and thus, it's hard to convince investors. - Q: To help us understand how this production process might scale up, do you have any rough metrics on the mass (or volume) ratios between each stage from raw inputs --> extracted fibers --> pulp --> finished product? How do the ratios for grass fiber compare to this calculation for wood fiber? https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2014-4-july-august/ask-mr-green/how-much-paper-does-one-tree-produce Specifically, are the pulp yield percentages at all similar? https://paperonweb.com/A1011.htm - A: For every one ton of grass, we get 1/3 ton of pulp. However, the grass that we get usually has seeds, overgrown, trash... in them, we got less pulp as a result. Compared to trees, we honestly do not know. How much pulp a tree will yield depends on how large that tree is, unusable branches, leaves, and barks also affect the pulp yield. Grass is similarly the same. Good grass yields more pulp. Bad grass yields less pulp (Seeds, stalks, dirt...) One ton of pulp will give us 95% finished product (5% loss in production process) - Q: Appreciate your feedback on my last post, Bao. Some additional thoughts: (4) A quick Google search produced an article from 2018 about a company named "Scheufelen". They seem to have produced 100% grass-based paper products. Am I misunderstanding that report? If not, then why do you think you'll reach market fit even though they apparently fizzled out entirely? (5) How difficult would it be for someone like Creapaper (who seems to be making stuff from a mixture of grass and wood) from recreating your process? (6) How much interest have you seen from farmer's market attendees? Anything yet from stores and/or restaurants? (7) Since you don't have a background in chemistry or manufacturing, could you share more about the other team members' qualifications? (Thanks in advance for taking the time with these points as well. Should be the last I'll make for now.) - A: Both Scheufelen and Creapaper attempted to make paper products from the mixture of wood pulp and grass pulp. Especially Creapaper, which uses 60% wood and 40% hay. Grinding up hay to mix into wood pulp doesn't work the way they think. Could be the reason why they eventually gave up and shut down. Our process is entirely different. We use 100% grass. (Why not hay, you might ask). We then separate the fibers from the grass blades and filter out the fibers. How difficult is it? We cannot tell you since this is a trade secret. You don't need a background in Chemistry or manufacturing to figure out how things work. You just need to ask questions like "Why is it not working? What changes should I make to make it work, and what can I do to make it better"... Elon Musk doesn't have a background in manufacturing, mechanics, nor electricity. My partner majors in International Business and Economics.