California-based startup Climax Foods, a US data science company consisting of founder and astrophysicist Oliver Zahn, co-founder and former sales and operation executive of JUST Inc Caroline Love, and the chemist and Stanford graduate Pavel Aronov, has plans to create a new generation of plant-based food.
Climax Foods and Benchling Use Data Science to Revolutionize Plant-Based Cheese
Last month, US biotech startup Climax Foods announced it had discovered the “first ever” plant-based casein, which can replicate the functional performance of conventional casein to make realistic animal-free cheese. Today, the company reveals that these innovations and developments have been made possible through a partnership with biotech research and data cloud platform Benchling. The collaboration, which uses Benchling’s platform for R&D data and insights, is helping Climax Foods manage high volumes of data to improve its formulation process and digital recipes. Through an innovative data-driven approach to R&D, the collaboration will accelerate the launch of plant-based cheese innovations onto the market. “There’s a lot of excitement for how machine learning and artificial intelligence can be used in the food industry. At Climax, we’re delivering on …