Food companies need faster, lower-cost ways to discover proteins and enzymes that improve product performance and sustainability.
R&D Focus
AI-designed proteins and enzymes for food applications
Innovative Solution
Protera builds functional ingredients for the food industry using protein engineering and artificial intelligence. Their agency streamlines protein design and development with a proprietary deep-learning algorithm, to predict high-value protein products and enzymes with unprecedented speed, enabling customers to get healthy, safe foods made from ingredients that are produced responsibly and sustainably.
Investment Funding
Last Funding Stage
Series A
Total Funding Amount
15.6M
Last Funding Amount
10.M
Last Funding Date
28-07-2021
Startup Stage
Early Stage
Lead Investors
Sofinnova Partners, SOSV, IndieBio, Grupo Bimbo, ICL Group
Revenue
$1M to $10M
People
Founders
Francia Navarrete
Leonardo Ãlvarez
About
Protera builds functional ingredients for the food industry using protein engineering and artificial intelligence. Their agency streamlines protein design and development with a proprietary deep-learning algorithm, to predict high-value protein products and enzymes with unprecedented speed, enabling customers to get healthy, safe foods made from ingredients that are produced responsibly and sustainably.
Products
Product
MADI™ – an AI protein-design platform used to identify and optimize functional proteins and enzymes.
Star Product
MADI™ – the core computational platform behind Protera’s protein pipeline.
Demo Product or Complete Product?
Development-stage technology or ingredient platform; commercialization or clinical development is ongoing.
Future Plan
Investment Funding
$10M Series A closed in 2021, led by Sofinnova Partners with participation from ICL and other investors.
M&A and Collabs
Collab
ICL Food Specialties – joint development and commercialization of AI-designed, precision-fermented protein ingredients.
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