Livin Farms
Recyling food waste with insects
- 1-20 employees
- B2C
- B2B
- Energy
- Sustainability
- Food
- Agriculture
- Erdberg, Vienna, Vienna
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Company mission
Feed the world while saving the planet.
Our take
Climate change continues to fuel a number of food shortages and insect-based proteins are therefore being increasingly considered an alternative food service. Enter LIVIN Farms, a startup that develops products and technologies for the next generation of agriculture. Its core product - Hive PRO Insect Factory - is a turn-key solution for the food, feed and recycling industries.
The Hive Pro is an industrialised system with multiple, stacked trays. It feeds baby larvae with food waste, uses robotic arms to move the trays and helps to rear the insects to ultimately turn them into powder. The other trays are used as fertilizer. This is all part of an effort to improve the up-cycling of organic waste.
The company has already garnered interest from a variety of investors and secured a round of series A funding. It is primed to continue to do so as it grows with the intention of becoming a major player in this industry. It is perhaps unsurprising given that LIVIN Farms has essentially found a way to turn food waste back into food.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2022
$5.8m
SERIES A
May 2020
$3m
GRANT
Total funding: $8.8m
Leadership
Katharina Unger
(Founder & CEO)Previously an Industrial Design Intern for Michael Young and as a Freelance Designer for Polka Products.