Yeastime, a deep-tech start-up founded in Rome in 2021, has announced that it has closed an €850,000 funding round. The operation is led by Farming Future. , National Technology Transfer Hub for agrifoodtech promoted by CDP Venture Capital, with the support of ToSeed & Partners; EIT Food and a business angel are also participating. The resources will enable the team to be expanded, partnerships to be strengthened and industrial-scale production to be launched.
Yeastime’s technology is a plug-and-play ultrasonic device applied externally to bioreactors: it is non-invasive and reduces fermentation times by up to 30% without altering the quality of the final product. The solution is designed to enable process innovation in the food and biotech sectors, with applications ranging from the food and brewing industries to precision fermentation and biomass.
“This round is a crucial step in bringing Yeastime to industrial scale. The support of strategic investors such as Farming Future and EIT Food allows us to enter a new phase of growth,” comments Pierfrancesco Mazzolini, CEO and co-founder of Yeastime (pictured with the team), in a statement.
“Yeastime is a concrete example of technology capable of innovating a key process in the agri-food supply chain,” says Claudia Pingue, senior partner and head of the Technology Transfer Fund at CDP Venture Capital.
In the coming months, Yeastime will develop devices applicable to industrial-volume fermenters, with an initial focus on the brewing sector, and will begin validation tests on new microorganisms, including microalgae, yeasts, bacteria and filamentous fungi, to extend the applications of its patented technology.
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