What was the inspiration behind Solar Foods?

Solar Foods was founded to commercialise the research that was carried out in VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and LUT University (Lappeenranta University of Technology). The founding team wanted to develop a solution for converting CO2 captured from the air into edible calories (food) in order to reverse the effect of all of the released CO2 from burning fossil fuels. To achieve such a complex task, a living single-cell microorganism was identified as the best converter for the job.

After the proof of concept at VTT, Solar Foods was founded in November 2017 and started operations in March 2018.