The story about Evodiabio

EvodiaBio was established as a commercial company in 2021 rooted in research conducted by three of its co-founders at the University of Copenhagen.

Our drive is to create a better future for our planet by re-inventing aromatic compounds and eliminate the need for extracting aromas from plants or synthesizing them using petrochemicals, harmful catalysts and solvents.

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Let’s make
Non-alcoholic beer
Taste like … beer

Let’s make
Non-alcoholic beer
Taste like … beer

EvodiaBio was established as a commercial company in 2021 rooted in research conducted by three of its co-founders at the University of Copenhagen.

 

Our drive is to create a better future for our planet by re-inventing aromatic compounds and eliminate the need for extracting aromas from plants or synthesizing them using petrochemicals, harmful catalysts and solvents.

We started looking for a way to produce the molecules ourselves, naturally – and we succeeded. We have made a ground-breaking reinvention of the production of natural aroma that can completely replace the need for harvested aromatic compounds.

The long-term aspiration is being able to supply the market with aroma for everything … and that journey starts with Yops™.

‘Evodia’ is Greek for ‘pleasant scent’ – a name which links to the inspirational legacy of the Greek grandmother of one of our founders, who used herbs for food and medicinal purposes.

Our endgame is to create a sustainable future where everyone can enjoy great taste and smell without depleting natural resources.

More environmentally friendly More environmentally friendly More environmentally friendly

EvodiaBio is reinventing the production of natural aromas for a more sustainable world.
Our goal is to create a future where everyone can enjoy great taste and smell without depleting natural resources.

We are operating on the frontier of aromatic innovation. We are setting a new agenda by applying fermentation to produce natural and environmentally friendly aromas. The aim is to revolutionize a wide range of industries category by category – starting with beer.

Tailored for improved taste
Yops™ provides a pure and specific aroma profile and better mouthfeel

Natural
Yops™ is a nature-based ingredient produced via fermentation. No chemical synthesis involved

Easy to use & store
Easy to work with and add into existing brewing processes

Customizable
Easy to customize and develop proprietary blends

Sustainable
Made by fermentation, Yops™ significantly reduce the environmental footprint compared to production of hops

Cost-effective
Competitive price compared to using more hops or adding hop-oils

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The prototype

clearly boosted the desired aroma!”

Skovlyst

Definitely more

hoppy – and no off- flavours”

Jack Olsen,

+30 experience from Carlsberg

Convinced that

yops can innovate the NoLo category”

Teedawn

Benefits

Camilla

Kloss Fenneberg

CEO

Expertise

Global marketing, ComEx, Product launches, go-to-market strategy

Formerly

Go2Green Energy, Coloplast


Role

CEO and leading sales & Marketing roles

Simon

Dusseaux

CSO & Co-founder

Expertise

Metabolic engineering, fermentation, analytical chemistry

Formerly

CARBIOS (France)


Role

Strain engineer, aroma portfolio and production

Victor

Forman

CTO & Co-founder

Expertise

Metabolic engineering, fermentation, brewing

 

Formerly

Tycho-bio, EVOLVA (DK), AMYRIS (USA)

Role

CEO and leading sales & Marketing roles

Sotirios

Kampranis

Board member & Co-founder

Expertise

Synthetic biology, scientific project management

 

 

 

Role

Scientific advisor and management

Jarine

Elleholm

Chairman & Co-founder

 

Expertise

Business development, fundraising and management

 

 

 

Role

Strain engineer, aroma portfolio and production

Elena

Simoniello

Sales & Marketing Assistant

 

Expertise

Food industry specialist, consumer research, marketing strategy, B2C & B2B communication, business development

Role

Sales & Marketing Assistent

Sotirios

Kampranis

Board member & Co-founder

Expertise

Synthetic biology, scientific project management

 

 

 

 

Role

Scientific advisor and management

Jarine

Elleholm

Chairman & Co-founder

Expertise

Business development, fundraising and management

 

 

 

Role

Strain engineer, aroma portfolio and production

Elena

Simoniello

Sales & Marketing Assistant

Expertise

Food industry specialist, consumer research, marketing strategy, B2C & B2B communication, business development

Role

Sales & Marketing Assistent

Camilla

Kloss Fenneberg

CEO

Expertise

Global marketing, ComEx, Product launches, go-to-market strategy

 

Formerly

Go2Green Energy, Coloplast

Role

CEO and leading sales & Marketing roles

Simon

Dusseaux

CSO & Co-founder

Expertise

Metabolic engineering, fermentation, analytical chemistry

 

Formerly

CARBIOS (France)


Role

Strain engineer, aroma portfolio and production

Victor

Forman

CTO & Co-founder

Expertise

Metabolic engineering, fermentation, brewing

 

Formerly

Tycho-bio, EVOLVA (DK), AMYRIS (USA)

Role

CEO and leading sales & Marketing roles

Camilla

Kloss Fenneberg

CEO

Expertise

Global marketing, ComEx, Product launches, go-to-market strategy

Formerly

Go2Green Energy, Coloplast

Role

CEO and leading sales & Marketing roles

Simon

Dusseaux

CSO & Co-founder

Expertise

Metabolic engineering, fermentation, analytical chemistry

Formerly

CARBIOS (France)

Role

Strain engineer, aroma portfolio and production

Victor

Forman

CTO & Co-founder

Expertise

Metabolic engineering, fermentation, brewing

 

Formerly

Tycho-bio, EVOLVA (DK), AMYRIS (USA)

Role

CEO and leading sales & Marketing roles

Sotirios

Kampranis

Board member & Co-founder

Expertise

Synthetic biology, scientific project management

Role

Scientific advisor and management

Jarine

Elleholm

Chairman & Co-founder

Expertise

Business development, fundraising and management

Role

Strain engineer, aroma portfolio and production

Elena

Simoniello

Sales & Marketing Assistant

Expertise

Food industry specialist, consumer research, marketing strategy, B2C & B2B communication, business development

Role

Sales & Marketing Assistent

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EvodiaBio raises 6.4 million dollars to produce aroma through precision fermentation

The Danish aroma company, EvodiaBio, secured 6.4 million dollars in a recent capital raise. Their goal is to become a global industry leader in sustainable aroma production for the food and beverage industry.  

EvodiaBio recently introduced a ground-breaking technology platform that uses precision fermentation to produce sustainable aromas for the food and beverage industry. Now, the ambitious company has secured 45 million Danish kroner in additional funding, equaling approximately $6.4 million.

EvodiaBio, founded just one-and-a-half-years ago, received 14 million kroner in financial support from the BioInnovation Institute, a Danish accelerator funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. The remaining 31 million kroner stem from several international industry players, including the German flavor house Symrise that steps in as strategic investor, and Nordic Foodtech VC is lead investor.

Jarne Elleholm, co-founder and chairman of EvodiaBio, sees the capital raise as a crucial step in reaching the company’s soaring ambitions.

– Our vision is to create a sustainable, global company within the development, production, and commercialization of natural aromatic substances and this funding is our opportunity to realize this vision. The funding was made possible by a strong support from the BioInnovation Institute and by the great progress we have made during our only one-and-a-half-year lifetime, says Jarne Elleholm.

Non-alcoholic beer is the first segment that EvodiaBio will address, says Jarne Elleholm, as getting the taste of the beer right has been a major challenge for the brewing industry. The company’s newly developed aroma blend, called Yops, can improve the taste of non-alcoholic beer, and serves as a sustainable alternative to cultivated aroma hops. In the long term, the bio-industrial company will develop aromas for other beverages, perfume, and a range of other segments.

EvodiaBio’s monoterpenoid aromas are produced using yeast cells that secrete the individual aroma components and are then combined to mimic the aroma profiles of different hops. The result is a natural, pure, and sustainable product. The technology has been developed after years of research by the scientific co-founders, Prof. Sotirios Kampranis, Dr. Simon Dusséaux and Dr. Victor Forman. EvodiaBio’s approach surpasses all other methods and enables, for the first time, a cost-effective and sustainable biotechnological production of the volatile aroma molecules from hops. Using EvodiaBio’s solution, the brewer avoids depleting limited plant resources, while water and CO2 emissions are reduced by more than 90 percent.

A Shared Vision

The major German flavor and fragrance-producer Symrise looks forward to the future collaboration, and the companies’ shared vision has been a contributing factor in the Symrise’s investment.

– We are very enthusiastic about this collaboration and ready to support the company on this exciting journey. We share with EvodiaBio the same vision for a greener future and believe that the precision fermentation technology developed by the team will greatly contribute to a more sustainable flavor and fragrance industry, starting with non-alcoholic beer applications and with the potential to go much further, says Nick Russell, SVP Business Incubation Group at Symrise.

A Promising Project

Recently appointed board member of EvodiaBio, Flemming Besenbacher is the former chairman of Carlsberg and the Carlsberg Foundation. He also sees the news highly positively:

– As former chairman of Carlsberg, I see huge opportunities for our company, now that our financing is secured. EvodiaBio is a very promising project that solves an industry challenge, which I excitedly have been involved in solving, and I look forward to being part of the further developments, we are beginning now, says Flemming Besenbacher.

Founder and partner of Nordic Foodtech VC, Lauri Reuter, is both pleased and proud of his company’s contributing role as lead investor.

– A better food system is not only about securing essential nutrition, but also providing the aroma and sensory experiences we love – without depleting scarce resources. The EvodiaBio team has discovered an elegant solution to a difficult bottle neck in sustainable production of aroma compounds. They are passionately building a sustainable future that also tastes great, says Lauri Reuter.  

Next step in EvodiaBio’s far-reaching plans is the establishment of the company’s own offices, laboratories, and pilot-production in Denmark. They are now preparing for the launch of Yops in 2023, where they also expect an increase in staff.

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About EvodiaBio

EvodiaBio is a bio-industrial company that has developed a cutting-edge and sustainable way of producing natural aromas, starting with making non-alcoholic beer taste fantastic.

Through a patented fermentation process, the company has developed an effective method of producing aromas that are usually lost when producing non-alcoholic beer. EvodiaBio aromas will empower the brewer to conceive the beer’s desired fulness of flavor, consistently and sustainably.

EvodiaBio is supported by a strong international syndicate of investors that in addition to Symrise and Nordic FoodTech VC also includes PINC – the venture arm of Paulig from Finland, Thia Ventures VC, and Newtree Impact from Belgium.

EvodiaBio supports the UN goals for sustainable development (SDG) #3 (Good Health and Well-Being) by forwarding mindful drinking and making non-alcoholic beer more appealing, and SDGs #6 (Clean Water) and #13 (Climate Action) by reducing CO2 and water expenditure significantly compared with traditional hop cultivation.

EvodiaBio ApS

Jarne Elleholm, co-founder and Chairman

+41 79 762 55 44

je@evodiabio.com

http://evodiabio.com/

Yops™ has been tested by a professional beer testing panel at NIRAS

Source: Sensory Analysis performed by NIRAS

 

Our first Yops™ floral blend has been tested on a commercial non-alcoholic beer with great results.

The evaluation was done by NIRAS, one of the top beer sensory panels in Europe.

 

NIRAS professional beer panel evaluated commercial non-alcoholic beer and commercial non-alcoholic beer after the addition of the Yops™ floral aroma.

 

The result showed a remarkable improvement in beer quality upon addition of Yops™.

 

The overall score improved from satisfactory to good, bringing the Yops™-containing beer at the high-end part of the distribution of 7,000 different non-alcoholic and alcoholic beers assessed from the same panel.

 

The panel also reported a clear enhancement of hoppy flavors, together with a decrease in worthy and grainy off-flavors. We are very happy about these results as it shows the Yops™ aroma does exactly what it is designed to do.