Melt&Marble uses yeast‑based precision fermentation to produce custom‑designed fats and lipids with defined fatty‑acid composition and functional properties. Their platform enables food and personal‑care manufacturers to replace conventional vegetable or animal fats with scalable, sustainable ingredients that offer tailored texture, melting behavior, and sensory performance while reducing land and water use.
Funding
$3.2M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Problem
Conventional vegetable and animal fats dominate the market but require large land use, suffer from supply volatility, and offer limited functional flexibility for food and personal‑care formulations, creating sustainability and performance challenges for brands.
Solution
Melt&Marble uses precision fermentation to engineer yeast cells that produce designer fats and lipids with defined fatty‑acid composition and physical properties. By rewiring microbial metabolism, the company can tailor melting behavior, texture, and sensory attributes to meet specific formulation needs while eliminating reliance on crops or animal sources. The process leverages established industrial fermentation infrastructure, enabling scalable, cost‑competitive production with minimal land and water footprints. Regulatory‑approved ingredients are delivered to food and personal‑care manufacturers as high‑performance, sustainable alternatives that can be customized for each application.
Target Audience
Primary customers are food manufacturers (e.g., alternative meat, dairy, bakery, confectionery) and personal‑care brands seeking high‑performance, sustainably sourced fats and lipids for formulation.
Features
- Yeast‑based precision fermentation platform that converts plant‑derived sugars into custom‑designed fats and oils
- Metabolic engineering and pathway optimization to control fatty‑acid chain length, saturation, and assembly into target lipid structures
- High‑throughput strain screening, omics analysis, and advanced lipid analytics to ensure consistent product quality
- Rational design tools, including metabolic modeling and bioinformatics, for rapid iteration of new lipid profiles
- Scalable production using existing industrial bioreactors, providing a reliable path to commercial volumes
- Regulatory‑ready ingredients with self‑GRAS status for food and INCI‑approved naming for personal‑care applications