Stockeld Dreamery

The plant-based revolution moves to the cheese plate

Stockeld Dreamery is challenging the food status quo with plant-based alternatives, starting with cheese.

Entrepreneurs
Sorosh Tavakoli, Anja Leissner

Founded
2019

Partnered
2019

HQ
Stockholm, Sweden

Category
Innovating Agrifood Transformation Processes

Re-inventing the foods we love

Consumer are demanding plant-based alternatives across all food and beverage segments. Cheese alone represents a $60b market, but existing alternatives fall woefully short of cheese lovers’ expectations and demand for plant-based alternatives that are delicious, nutritious and made from ingredients that are both natural and part of a climate-positive food system.
Today, the traditional dairy industry uses 3,000 litres of water and 12m2 cropland per year to produce 1kg of cheese. In the process, ecologically important areas, such as prairies, wetlands and forests, are put under unsustainable pressure which could be eased through transitioning to a more diverse, plant-based diet.

In early 2019, Sorosh Tavakoli and Anja Leissner, founded Stockeld Dreamery (formerly Noquo Foods). The duo combine the skills of a successful second time entrepreneur, a passionate food scientist and the ambition to build a science-based food company and brand fit for a new generation and changing planet. Their mission is to reduce environmental footprint, animal suffering and improve health through a plant-based cheese product that delivers on taste, price, convenience and transparency. So too do they want to delight the 70% of the world’s population that is lactose intolerant (Source: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine).

Stockeld Dreamery is well positioned to benefit from the strong tailwinds of their market niche: a powerful combination of growing transparency, environmental and social challenges (ranging from high carbon footprint, to antibiotic use and resistance and high fat/low nutrition), preference for plant-based products and rejection of animal-based products. For these reasons, consumer demand for the products Stockeld Dreamery is developing is primed and burgeoning. They have a strong foundation of research and learning behind them that’s shaping their focus going forward.

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Deciding to work with Astanor easy given my engagement with them, but also the complete alignment around the challenges with our food system and the opportunities that follows with it.

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Ÿnsect

Alternative protein to make our feed’s feed sustainable

Ÿnsect transforms humanely raised insects into premium animal nutrition.

Entrepreneurs
Antoine Hubert, Jean-Gabriel Levon

Founded
2011

Partnered
2019

HQ
Evry, France

Category
Innovating Agrifood Transformation Processes

As vegetarian insect farmers, Ÿnsect transforms humanely-raised insects into premium animal nutrition

Vegetarian insect farmers, Ÿnsect transforms humanely-raised insects into premium animal nutrition. Their market leadership has gained the trust of agri-food professionals, laboratories, investors, public institutions and insect industry farmers. They have increasing their scale as a growing number of pet food and animal feed producers have sought out their ingredient.
The insects are processed and sold as premium, highly nutritious protein powder for animal feed and aquaculture, while the by-products from the raising process are sold as organic fertilizers.

Today, 25% of global fish caught are used for animal feed. By replacing traditional feed sources (fishmeal from wild-caught fish stocks) with insect protein, Ÿnsect can offset the growing competition for ocean fish stock required to feed 2 billion more people in 2050, while alleviating fish, water and soil depletion, and agriculture’s 25% share of global greenhouse gas emissions. The footprint of Ÿnsect’s farms also cuts down substantially on land use, preserving more biodiversity on the planet. Ÿnsect’s farms offer 150x more productive land use per hectare for Ynsect farms compared to beef farms.

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Astanor’s expertise, network and global advisors in deep science, marketing, manufacturing and finance help us strengthen our governance, manage complex industrial projects, and attract the best co-investors.

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Infarm

Growing an ultra-fresh food system in your city

A pioneer in on-demand vertical farming, Infarm helps cities become self-sufficient in their food production and democratises access to local healthy fresh produce while eliminating waste and reducing environmental impact.

Entrepreneurs
Erez Galonska, Guy Galonska, Osnat Michaeli

Founded
2013

Partnered
2018

HQ
Berlin, Germany

Category
Innovating Agrifood Transformation Processes

Making every city a nourished city

Western society routinely purchases food that often has grown thousands of kilometers away from where it’s consumed. The cost of that supply chain is high CO2 emissions, less nutritious food, substantial waste of water and food and atrophy to soil and land through chemical use. In the case of leafy greens, they lose their key nutrients in less than 7 days of harvest.
Founded in Berlin in 2013, Infarm is pioneering on-demand farming services to help cities become self-sufficient in their food production while eliminating waste and reducing environmental impact. Infarm’s grow-on-site farming system enables the production of locally fresh and nutritious plants all-year round. The resulting produce comes from organic non-GMO seeds, is free of pesticides and has a close to 90% less transportation.

Infarm’s technology fundamentally changes the way we grow, distribute and consume food – and the impact food production has on the planet and people. With farms operating across Europe, Canada, the US, Japan and more, Infarm’s solution grows food that uses:
95% less water
75% less fertilizers
No chemical pesticides
99% less land