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FOOD FOUNDERS Studio. Two words in capitals, then Studio in sentence case. After first mention, "the studio" is fine in running text. The legal entity is FOOD FOUNDERS Studio AG.
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FOOD FOUNDERS Studio is a Swiss venture studio that builds B2B food and beverage companies from science that already works.
FOOD FOUNDERS Studio is a Swiss venture studio that builds B2B food and beverage companies from existing science. Industry tells the studio what it needs, the studio finds the technology that answers it, and then co-founds the company in between. It sources technology from university labs, startups that ran out of runway, and shelved corporate R&D programs.
FOOD FOUNDERS Studio is a Swiss venture studio based in Zurich that builds B2B food and beverage companies from science that already exists. Large manufacturers have cut internal R&D and now buy rather than build, while proven food and beverage technology sits unused in university labs, in startups that ran out of money, and in corporate programs that were shelved. The studio works from both ends: it establishes what manufacturers will pay to solve, sources the technology that answers it, assesses it with four expert boards drawn from the industry, then licenses or acquires it and co-founds the company around it. More than a hundred technologies have been evaluated to date. Its first company, SentiaNova, makes truly neutral plant proteins and reached the market within a year of being founded.
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- Founded
- 2024
- Headquarters
- Zeughaustrasse 31, 8004 Zurich, Switzerland
- Legal entity
- FOOD FOUNDERS Studio AG
- Model
- Venture studio. Not an accelerator or an incubator.
- Round size
- EUR 4m
- Technologies evaluated
- More than 100
- Expert board members
- 15 across four boards
- Companies built
- 1, SentiaNova, in market
- Team
- 3 co-founders
- Backing
- Co-funded by EIT Food and the European Union
- Investors
- Not disclosed
- Website
- www.foodfounders.studio
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Typography
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Who to quote on what
Names and titles as they should be printed. Interview requests go through the press contact.
The model, the industry problem, partnerships and commercial strategy. Built and scaled EverGrain inside AB InBev.
linkedin.com/in/g-cattaneoSpokesperson on technology: sourcing, IP evaluation, and taking science from lab to product. Led the world's first cultivated beef fillet process at Mirai Foods.
linkedin.com/in/alexandre-morel-001Funding, investor relations, investment strategy, impact framework. Managed over 70 seed-stage foodtech investments with 14 exits.
linkedin.com/in/robertboerThe founder experience and the SentiaNova technology. Available for stories about the venture itself rather than about the studio. Six years building Agrinorm, exited in 2025.
linkedin.com/company/sentianovaSelected coverage
Twelve pieces so far, in two waves: the studio in September 2025 and SentiaNova in April 2026. Figures quoted in the earlier pieces are the figures of the time.
The taste problem and the process that fixes it, written for a general audience.
The venture's launch, with the technology explained in detail.
A long interview with Giacomo Cattaneo on how the studio picks technology and builds around it.
The launch interview, and the clearest statement of why the studio exists.
Writing something that should be on this list? Send it to media@foodfounders.studio and we will add it.
SentiaNova, the first company
Truly neutral plant proteins. A patented process removes off-flavors at the raw material stage, before concentration or isolation, rather than masking them afterwards. Licensed technology, in market within a year of being founded.
The licensor is not being named at this stage and is the subject of a separate announcement. Investors in the studio and in its ventures are not disclosed.
www.sentianova.comPress contact
media@foodfounders.studio
Interview requests, fact checks, photography and anything this page does not cover.
FOOD FOUNDERS Studio AG
Zeughaustrasse 31, 8004 Zurich, Switzerland
Last updated: September 2026