Cultimate Foods is a cellular agriculture company that creates alternative fat ingredients for plant-based meat products. Unlike other fat alternatives, this company creates a unique lipid composition of the fat delivering authentic pork and beef flavor. The company raised more than 3 million EUR to date and is backed by strong life science investors HTGF, b.value, Life Science Valley as well as the largest foodtech funds Big Idea Venture, ProVeg International and Kale United.
This innovative biotechnology company was founded in 2012 as a spin-out of the Institute for Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. Cysal is active in the production of biopolymers, peptides, and especially dipeptides. Furthermore, Cysal specializes in developing biotechnology solutions in General.
PerformaNat GmbH was founded in 2015 as a spin-off of the veterinary medicine department of the Freie Universität Berlin. The first product – an animal-feed additive for use with dairy cows – was developed with the help of the EXIST Transfer of Research Grant Program of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, and it has already been successfully out-licenced. Further products are being developed.