NEWS FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE December 2025 111 Proteine Resources, a Polish biotech startup, announced a new investment round with participation from Radix Ventures. Radix’s investment extends the €9.5 million financing secured in July 2025 from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator, bringing the company’s total capital access to nearly €12 million in 2025. The Proteine Resources team has patented the production process of EntoPro™, which the company describes as a revolutionary ingredient with exceptional properties. Firstly, Proteine Resources points out that the alternative proteins it has created are simply delicious, with over 80% of dogs and cats choosing food supplemented with EntoPro™, making it one of the most palatable alternative proteins on the market. Secondly, the alternative protein’s composition matches 1:1 with beef, providing a full amino acid profile ensuring complete nutrition. Thirdly, it simultaneously possesses additional nutritional and prebiotic properties, validated by numerous tests. “Science confirms that the gut is the second brain, and we believe animals deserve the very best,” says Bartłomiej Roszkowski, co-founder and co-CEO of Proteine Resources, adding: “EntoPro™ is not just an ingredient but the foundation of the Dual-Action Gut Health system, combining prebiotics and postbiotics to support gut health as the basis for the entire organism.” Read more>> Proteine Resources secures new investment Photo: Proteine Resources Leaft Foods, a company that extracts Rubisco, the planet's most abundant protein, directly from green leaves, announced its expansion into the pet nutrition market with Alfalfa Protein Concentrate (APC), a sustainable protein ingredient that delivers meat-like nutrition with dramatically reduced environmental impact. The company simultaneously announced a strategic partnership with Meateor Pet Food Ingredients New Zealand for distribution in the United States, with European expansion planned for 2026. The company highlights the move as representing a natural evolution of Leaft's comprehensive food production system, which creates maximum value from multiple nutrient streams within harvested alfalfa plants. While the company has gained recent recognition for its Rubisco Protein Isolate for human nutrition applications, APC represents years of intentional development specifically for pet food applications, demonstrating how Leaft's total utilization approach serves both human and animal nutrition markets through distinct, purpose-built products. "Our total utilization approach was always designed to create value from the entire leaf, and pet nutrition represents the perfect application for our Alfalfa Protein Concentrate," said Ross Milne, CEO of Leaft Foods. "We're not just adding another ingredient to the market. We're providing pet food manufacturers with a way to maintain their premium meat-forward positioning while significantly reducing their environmental footprint." Read more>> Leaft Foods enters pet food market Photo: Freepik
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