Solar Foods is a Finnish food technology company revolutionizing global food production by growing natural microscopic food using a unique bioprocess that converts air, electricity, and fermentation into edible protein called Solein. Their goal is to detach food production from agriculture and provide a sustainable protein source that can be grown anywhere.

Solar Foods

Solein is a game-changing protein for the global food industry. Produced from air – CO2, water, nitrogen – and electricity, our unique natural single-cell proteins are not dependent on agriculture, weather or the climate. Creating the future of sustainable food with an unlimited diversity of proteins.

Finnish Climate Fund

Bridford Investments

Lifeline Ventures

Agronomics

Illusian Family Office

CPT Capital

Fazer

Business Finland

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Josef Aschbacher, European Space Agency - ESA Director General, accompanied by veteran astronaut Luca Parmitano held a meeting with leading Finnish space industrials, and a working lunch with Business Finland yesterday. 

The visit highlighted the strategic space capabilities that Finland can offer, important to ESA’s agenda towards higher autonomy in the field of space technology and exploration. The Director General seeks Finland’s support both towards achieving the objectives of ESA’s Agenda 2025, as well as the recommendations of the recently published report by the High Level Advisory Group (HLAG). HLAG’s recommendations especially called for substantial increase of Europe’s manned and robotic space exploration activities, in which Europe is falling behind the USA and China. Solar Foods' space strategy is well aligned with these strategic initiatives.

During the lunch, #Solein® ice cream was also available for the curious to get a glimpse of the future of food for our space explorers.

Read more about our space strategy: https://lnkd.in/dHd4Zkh3

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Our bioprocess technology does not only produce the world’s most sustainable protein, but also plays a key role in securing Finland’s self-sufficiency and increasing export income.

Read the vision of Youssef Zad, CEO of the Finnish Startup Community, on how the role of domestic production made possible by cellular agriculture will increase in the future: https://lnkd.in/d8kPzuBW 

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Spacefarming: The Future of Food explores how we can grow our food differently in the future, or even on other planets.

If you are near Eindhoven, come and experience our #Solein in the Next Nature Spacefarming exhibition that revolves around a new food revolution. 

Read more: https://lnkd.in/d3SfiTQc 

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Protein is a vital part of the human diet. The problem is that in wealthy nations, people eat too much of it and for the most part, it comes from animal products – putting a huge strain on the environment.

We are featured in one of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals, Nature, in an article about the proteins of the future. Read more below (article behind paywall) ⬇️

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Our CTO Dr. Juha-Pekka Pitkänen introduced to Deutschlandfunk our technology that’s bound to change the future of food and talked about the possibilities our #Solein has to offer in terms of disconnecting food production from traditional agriculture.

Listen to the full interview below (mostly in German), Juha-Pekka’s part starts at approximately 21:30.  

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Our CEO Pasi Vainikka is speaking today at the European Investment Fund (EIF) Ugly Duck event in Luxembourg. 

Joining Pasi in the panel discussion themed “Impact Investing – The role of disruptive tech in creating sustainability in our society” are World Fund’s Craig Douglas and Voima Ventures’ Inka Mero, and the discussion will be moderated by EIF’s Anna Finizio. 

Read more about the event and the Ugly Duck community, which represents European innovation at its best: https://lnkd.in/dJmtAPKg

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Our CEO Pasi Vainikka recently attended the SKS Japan 2023 Global Foodtech Summit – a gathering place for food innovators from all over the world.

The theme of the discussion was “Development of new food system considering environment and human health”. Pasi was joined by Ajinomoto Co., Inc.’s General Manager of Green Business Development Department Masaki Kashihara, with whom we agreed on a strategic alliance this spring.

Photo credit: Courtesy of SKS JAPAN / SIGMAXYZ.Inc]

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Now that our participation in Project HYDROCOW is out, we thought it would be a good time to open up the science behind it. 

Our target is to engineer a microbe that converts carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen, manufactured from water with electricity, into beta-lactoglobulin, a major constituent of milk. Instead of relying on heterotrophic microbes that feed on sugar or other high-energy carbon sources derived from agriculture, we are modifying a hydrogen-oxidizing microbe to secrete milk proteins thereby removing agriculture from the equation. This is a challenge our project team is now ready to face. 

With the project being successful, we expect to gain not just a milk producing microbe, but a platform that could be modified in the future to produce other proteins as well. There is a vast pool of ideas to extract from, ranging from edible proteins to various functional and even pharmaceutical proteins, like antibodies.

Read more: https://lnkd.in/d-Z92tYU

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President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen delivered a speech today in Strasbourg outlining Europe’s future and presented this year’s State of the Union report. Solar Foods is honored that our work with Solein, a protein out of thin air, is also mentioned in the report: “This is not science fiction – the startup is receiving EUR 33,6 million for a demonstration factory in Vantaa, Finland. The project is also part of the Commission’s hydrogen value chain IPCEI.”

Von der Leyen’s speech and the report offer a comprehensive look into Europe’s present and future, highlighting core values such as sustainability and innovation. And as our pioneering Factory 01, the first production facility of its kind in the world, is getting closer to completion and starting the commercial production of Solein, we can firmly agree that it isn’t science fiction. The future of food is now and we are highly excited for it.

Read and learn more on the report from the link below. 

https://lnkd.in/eyBhBTnw

We had the pleasure of hosting DER SPIEGEL’s Johann Grolle earlier this spring. Now, we’re featured in the magazine’s article about the revolution that’s about to take place in food production. Read more (article in German and behind paywall) ⬇️

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