✨Something interesting to listen with your next ☕break! #ÄIO's CEO and co-founder Nemailla Bonturi talks in a podcast!🔴 Hear from the source, what ÄIO does, how foodtech finds investors in #Estonia and what are the obstacles in the area of #novel #foods! 🙏Thank you so much, Alex Shandrovsky for this interview! ÄIO's journey is possible thanks to our devoted founders, amazing team, supporters and great #investors: 2C Ventures, Voima Ventures, Nordic Foodtech VC, SmartCap!
About us
We are ÄIO and our mission is to change the way we produce, consume and perceive foods and other products. On the oil drop level. By recognizing the full worth of microbial oils, we deliver tailored solutions for industries such as food, feed and cosmetics. We were officially founded in January 2022 and we plan to be the largest biotech company in the region. How do we plan to do it? Simple: we use locally available by-products to "brew" fats & oils. By-products such as forestry residues and food industry side streams. Our products are better. Rich in proteins, omega-3s, antioxidants, and pigments - all that by recycling and converting low-value biomass into high-value oil ingredients. Without any dependence on season or climate, or even without using precious arable land. Non-animal, plant-based. Sustainable alternative fats & oils. Point made.
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https://aio.bio/
External link for ÄIO
- Industry
- Biotechnology Research
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Tallinn
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2022
Locations
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15 Akadeemia road
Tallinn, 12618, EE
Employees at ÄIO
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Evelyn Lumi
Quality Manager at ÄIO | Working with future-shaping fats and oils | Deep Tech, Foodtech, Cleantech |
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Mateus Ribeiro da Silva
Head of Pilot Plant at ÄIO: Future-shaping fats and oils | Biotechnologist | Process specialist
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Magdalena Koziol
Cosmetic Product Developer - Head of Cosmetics Development at ÄIO: Future-shaping fats and oils - PhD Biotechnologist - Founder at KOZMETICS
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Luísa Czamanski Nora
Head of Strain Engineering at ÄIO: future-shaping fats and oils
Updates
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✨Today & tomorrow, #ÄIO's CIO, Mary-Liis Kütt talks about "Global novel food tastings - when and how?" at the panel discussion.🔴 Topic that we deal with (and talk about!) daily in ÄIO's novel fats & oils developments!
💡 Global innovation in foodtech continues to grow at a rapid pace, making it vital for innovators to stay up-to-date on regulatory frameworks and developments. 🎤 Ahead of next week’s Regulating the Future of Food Conference, speakers Ida Aabrandt Søndergaard (Solar Foods) and Mary-Liis Kütt (ÄIO) share their views on the conference sessions and why open channels of communication are essential for a smoother regulatory process. Read in full here: https://lnkd.in/dyQxT4kd Co-located with The The Future of Protein Production and organised in collaboration with Vireo Advisors, LLC, this two-day regulatory event promises exclusive talks by top regulatory experts, panel discussions, deep-dive workshops and networking sessions. 📅 Date: 23rd & 24th October 🏢 Location: RAI, Amsterdam Get your tickets to the Regulating the Future of Food Conference now: https://lnkd.in/gwUWNm-w #EFSA #foodinnovation #futureoffood #foodsafety
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✨We do and we talk!🔴 ÄIO's team working 24/7 shifts with our next pilot plant batch! At the same time, #Estonian National TV is interviewing us for their next science show that talks about food innovation. We show how ÄIO's products could be used in foods - for example chocolate chip cookies!🍪 🧡It's been another good and busy autumn week! Leaves on trees are taking the colors of ÄIO products!🍁🍂
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✨Sounds familiar - there is too much to do?🔴 To solve at least part of this situation, in #ÄIO, pair of extra super reliable hands comes from our amazing Chäppy - ÄIO's Flow Robotics flowbot® ONE! ÄIO's Head of Strain Engineering Luísa Czamanski Nora says: "Having such a flexible robot is key to keeping our workflow efficient and simple. We didn’t have to change a lot when we implemented the robot. It just does it for us and then that’s it."🩵 🙌Thank you so much, Lanmer for helping to set up our "extra pair of hands" and Flow Robotics for the robot!
Let’s discuss the value of using robotics to empower sustainable development 🌱 ÄIO, an Estonia-based biotech company, is developing sustainable alternatives to palm oil, coconut oil, and animal-based fats through their innovative fermentation technology. Their key to creating an efficient and secure workflow has become the pipetting skills of the flowbot ONE liquid handler. ÄIO uses flowbot ONE to automate liquid handling in all their molecular biology protocols. In fact, they run around 10 different protocols on it which they easily switch between. The flowbot ONE was introduced to Luísa Czamanski Nora, Head of Strain Engineering at AIO, by Lanmer who could easily envision its user-friendly drag and drop setup in their hard-pressed lab. As the only strain engineer at the project at that time, the most important factor was that she could learn it quickly and become comfortable with setting up protocols by herself. Read ÄIO's story: https://lnkd.in/eTj6FAv9 Kent Langel #strainengineering #sustainability #pcr #labautomation #robotics
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✨ÄIO’s work = work! These weeks are busy!🔴 Meet us at: BIONEER Project meeting in #Essen with Magdalena Koziol! SIAL Paris fair in #Paris, the largest professional meeting of the world's food sector with Kristi Lember! ATOVA Regulatory Consulting, SLU, Regulating the Future of Food Conference in #Amsterdam with Mary-Liis Kütt! ❤️We also take care of our amazing team – Luísa, Mary-Liis and Vitali celebrated 2 years of working in ÄIO. Sounds short, but actually – they are the first employees of our startup! We had an interesting workshop about multicultural work environment, pancake Thursday (thank you, Mane!) and video+radio+podcasts going around! Stay tuned! It was a good & super busy week, but we all enjoyed every minute of it!❤️
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✨ÄIO #documentary scenes before and after!🔴 🎢Scene 1: ÄIO's pilot plant team finished another batch (rollercoaster) with our bioreactor at 10pm! Happy & tired! 🎉Scene 2: The same team, holding our latest award - "Bright Starter 2024" by City of Tallinn - an award given to a successful startup! It's 4pm! Happy & excited! Thank you to Tallinna ettevõtluskeskus/ Tallinn Enterprise Centre, for your support and noticing! Congratulations to #ÄIO founders Nemailla Bonturi and Petri-Jaan Lahtvee! To be continued... 🚀
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✨ÄIO's 2x🇫🇷 and 2x🇪🇪 today!🔴 - Pitching & session today at NutrEvent in #Lille by Nemailla and Mary-Liis. - Panel discussion at Tallinna ettevõtluskeskus/ Tallinn Enterprise Centre Entrepreneurship Day 2024: “Forethought" about future foods by Kristi and Petri-Jaan. Happy to be on stages to talk about what we are so involved with: #fermented and #novel foods!
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✨Investment news! Dreams do come true!🚀🔴 Extremely happy to announce that we have raised €6.1 million to build a demo plant for producing sustainable oils and fats from wood and agricultural residues. Thank you so much for believing in us❤️ Voima Ventures | 2C Ventures | SmartCap | Nordic Foodtech VC The funds will be used to build a #demo #plant in #Estonia to produce environmentally friendly oils and fats from wood and agricultural residues, offering an alternative to the widely used oils in the food industry. Read the full press release from here: https://lnkd.in/dKCk_XdJ
Press Release: ÄIO Secures €6 Million for Demo Plant Construction
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✨ A must-see video and must-know content of 2024! Take 2 minutes during your next break, look & hear what we are doing in #ÄIO!🔴 In short: we are on a mission – to replace unsustainable oils & fats (🌴&🥥) with our sustainable #novel #food: RedOil. BUT… even though we have the process, we have team of amazing scientists👨🔬, we have the oil & fat #ready to be used; to reach the market we must navigate an extremely long and overly bureaucratic process of getting the novel ingredients permitted by European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). What you can help with, is to look at this video, react to it and ÄIO will be several steps further on our mission!❤️ Thank you Accelerate Estonia for supporting us on this journey!🦄
🌱 How can sawdust be turned into a delicious muffin? Take a look! We’re proud to have supported an innovative company like ÄIO on their journey to revolutionize the food industry. ÄIO continues to transform sawdust into healthy, sustainable oils, offering an eco-friendly alternative to traditional fats like palm and coconut oil. Accelerate Estonia, in collaboration with ÄIO, has been focused on fast-tracking the approval of next-generation foods. Along the way, a strong community in food innovation has emerged, including Estonia’s first novel food tasting at Latitude59, exploration of strategic directions for the sector, and efforts to chart the course for navigating the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) process.
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✨ Today the world came to visit #ÄIO!🔴 Almost 40 diplomats who represent their countries here in #Estonia visited us and got to know so much more about what kind of food revolution ÄIO and Raw Edge are doing. 🌎🌍🌏 Insights about the companies by Kristi Lember and Kristel Vene, PhD, products (oils & fats) and cosmetics introduction by Magdalena Koziol, lab and pilot plant explanations by ÄIO team. 👨🔬 Usually we take one step (country and meeting) at a time, today we did 50 important steps! Thank you so much for visiting! Thank you, Ministry of Regional Affairs and Agriculture, for these moments! ✨
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