Case Study: Bolt Threads achieves 70% cost savings and sub-30-minute data access with Talend

Creating sustainable materials for a resourceconstrained world

Bolt Threads is an Emeryville, California materials company that engineers sustainable alternatives to leather and silk (notably Mylo™ and Microsilk™) for apparel and cosmetics. As the company’s scientific and commercial data volumes exploded, its legacy in‑house tools became costly, complex and unable to support big‑data workflows or rapid decision‑making.

Bolt Threads implemented Talend Cloud Big Data (integrated with AWS, Redshift and Benchling) in under three weeks to centralize and stream data to a warehouse and downstream tools. The new pipeline delivers near‑real‑time insights (data available in ~30 minutes), improved scientific and marketing analytics, and reduced data management costs by about 70%.

Bolt Threads

Deven Dharm

Director of Software Engineering