Planet A Foods
Building the next generation food ingredient champion.
About Planet A Foods
Imagine a world without chocolate. Horrifying, right? But the supply of cocoa is endangered and chocolate is as bad as meat for our planet.
We make future-proof chocolate using precision fermentation. Doing this, our chocolate is 10x more sustainable and 20% cheaper than conventional chocolate. In order to mimic the organoleptic properties of chocolate (tender, smoothly melting taste release) we are working on the flavor itself but also on replacing the cocoa butter.
55 Mio lbs of chocolate are consumed every day. By 2035 we will substitute a big chunk of it through our sustainable chocolate.
In addition, we are working on extending our technology platform to additional ingredients such as palm oil.
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$40.5M
Last stage
Series B
Investors
Founders
Sara Marquart
My two eternal loves are that for food and science. I am holding a Ph.D. in Food Chemistry.
Dr. Maximilian Marquart
Co-founder and CEO of Planet A Foods. PhD-level scientist, Y Combinator alumni (YC S21). Co-founded the Munich-based sustainable foodtech startup with his sister Dr. Sara Marquart in 2021.
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