NoPalm Ingredients, a Dutch biotechnology company producing yeast-derived oils, has successfully closed a €5 million seed funding round touted as largest funding ever for an alternative to palm oil in Europe.

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NoPalm Ingredients Secures €5M for Superior Fermented Oils Validated by Industry Giants

NoPalm Ingredients, a Dutch biotechnology company producing yeast-derived oils, has successfully closed a €5 million seed funding round touted as the largest funding ever for an alternative to palm oil in Europe. The round was led by Rubio Impact Ventures and co-led by Oost NL, Fairtree Elevant Ventures, and Willow Capital Investments, with participation from The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) and other private investors. The new capital will help the company to scale and deliver, at price parity, a sustainable alternative to traditional palm oil, which is astonishingly found in 60% of supermarket products. With proven oil quality by industry giants such as Colgate-Palmolive, Unilever, and Zeelandia, NoPalm Ingredients’ innovation, is set to transform the food and personal care industries. “Often, the answer isn’t to prohibit …

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Lars Langhout, founder of No Palm Ingredients

Lars Langhout, founder of No Palm Ingredients, image supplied

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NoPalm Ingredients: “Our Oils and Fats Have a Dramatically Lower Impact on Nature, Climate and Biodiversity”

Based in Wageningen, Netherlands, NoPalm Ingredients “brews” tailor-made fermented oils and fats. These serve as high-quality, sustainable, local, and circular alternatives to palm oil in food, cosmetics, and detergent products. Lars Langhout (MBA) is the co-founder and CEO of NoPalm Ingredients. He founded NoPalm Ingredients together with Prof. Dr. Jeroen Hugenholtz (CTO) in 2022. Can you share some of the key challenges and highlights NoPalm Ingredients faced in 2023, particularly in the context of scaling up your production of sustainable palm oil alternatives? As with most startups, the key challenge has been raising money to scale up. The investment climate for sustainable, circular start-ups deteriorated over the past two years. At the same time, it is a process we have learned a lot from, and …

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