Happy Plant Protein is a spinout from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland that has developed a manufacturing process to extract high-quality protein directly from legume and cereal flours. Its process yields ingredients usable as textured vegetable protein (TVP) or isolates while preserving more inherent nutrients by using whole flours rather than concentrates. The method is chemical-free, uses almost no water, generates no waste and reduces energy usage to roughly one‑seventh of conventional isolate production. The company says this approach can cut investment and operating costs by up to 90% compared with current technologies and can be adopted on existing extrusion lines. Technology is patented in Finland with global patents pending, and the team is testing different low-cost crops to expand sources of sustainable protein. Happy Plant Protein plans to licence its technology globally to enable local production for small mills and large food manufacturers and to reduce reliance on imported raw materials.

Total raised

$2M

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Nov 2024