AGRIFOOD / FOOD AND INGREDIENT INNOVATIONS
MICHROMA
Founding Year
2019
Headquarter
Argentina and the US
Key Milestones
  • Participated in the FoodHack Summit, and during the Startup pitch session, we were awarded together with NoPalm Ingredients a 100k USD investment

  • Winner of the Most Innovative Alternative Food or Beverage Ingredient category at Food Ingredients Global’s Startup Innovation Challenge 2020

  • Forward Fooding presents a list inspired by the Fortune 500 food tech companies every year. Michroma was featured at the 2020 edition of this list and the Top 10 Cellular agriculture & Protein fermentation Companies list

Next-gen ingredients made by fungi — Michroma is a foodtech startup revolutionizing the way ingredients are produced by developing fungal-based biofactories to produce natural ingredients in a sustainable, scalable, and cost-effective way. Produced using synbio and precision fermentation, Michroma’s first product is a high-performance natural red colorant well suited for all diets and food applications with supreme pH and thermal stability. By leveraging the power of our fungal biofactories, Michroma is producing additional high-value-added ingredients such as flavors and fragrances in a sustainable and cost-efficient way to replace petroleum-based ingredients, which are harmful to humans and the planet’s health.