About Solar Foods
Solar Foods is a Finnish food technology company on a mission to revolutionise global food production.
The way humanity is feeding itself is wrecking the climate, the soil, and the biodiversity of the planet and is putting billions at risk. Solar Foods has found the next step in the evolution of our food system.
Our unique approach comes from a union of scientific fields: renewable energy and bioprocess engineering.
Solar Foods was born from a scientific research programme at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology. The research team discovered a way to turn emission-free electricity and captured CO2 into edible calories. In other words, growing food out of thin air.
Dr Pasi Vainikka and Dr Juha-Pekka Pitkänen decided the research had so much potential it should be taken commercial. Solar Foods was founded in 2017 with this goal in mind; operations started in 2018.
- Founding: 2017
- Focus : Manufacturer
- Employees: 11-50
- Industry : Food
