We are upcycling fruit pits into plant-based ingredients

Tell us about your team. Why are you the right people for the project? 

Sebastian: Our founding team comprises four engineers and entrepreneurs. Luca and Michael met during university and started to work on the project, before being joined shortly afterwards by Fabian and myself.

Together we were able to design a manufacturing process to upcycle an initial 1.000 tonnes of fruit pits and offer those to over 50 customers from all over Europe. Currently, our wider team consists of ten people with employees supporting our mission in product development, R&D, and business development.

What are your favourite parts about building your business?

Fabian: It is probably the diversity of tasks and challenges. On the one hand, we are building relationships with fruit processing companies from all over Europe. On the other hand, we are developing cutting edge biochemical processes to make sure that the products can be used to their full potential. No two days are the same.

What have been the main challenges you’ve faced? 

Luca: Our main challenge was to develop the whole supply chain without having deep know-how of the raw material. So many factors come into play there without you even knowing it.

What is it that makes your company unique? 

Sebastian: The broad know-how about these raw materials and the ability to solve problems along the way very efficiently.