FFF podcast #6 - Animal-free egg white maker Onego Bio

By John Reynolds on Tuesday 26 April 2022

FFF podcast #6 - Animal-free egg white maker Onego Bio
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FFF interviews the CEO OF Finnish biotech startup Onego Bio while FFF founders David Stevenson and Paul Cuatrecasas discuss precision fermentation, vertical farming and some of the current big news stories.

In the sixth episode of the FFF podcast, Future Food Finance (FFF) interviews Maija Itkonen, the CEO of Finnish biotech startup Onego Bio while FFF co-founders David Stevenson and Paul Cuatrecasas discuss some of the big recent news stories and trends in FoodTech.

Maija Itkonen, CEO of Onego Bio, gives Stevenson an overview of Onego Bio, and its bioalbumen product, which is an animal-free egg white, made using precision fermentation.

The Finnish startup has just closed a €10 million seed funding round, with Agronomics Limited and Maki VC participating in the round, as it looks to scale up

Itkonen tells Stevenson about the firm’s scale-up plans and how the bioalbumen product will be consumed in the market.