Ovipost (Founding)
Funding Details
Awarder
YCombinator
Date Award
November 1, 2017
Vertical
Industrials,Agriculture
Company Info
Founding Year
2017
Market
Industrials
Location
LaBelle, FL, USA
Coinvestors
YCombinator
Company Description

Ovipost builds automated insect farms. Insects are the most efficient way to convert abundant, cheap byproducts into nutritionally dense protein. Today live insects are a $175m industry in the US, but the future of the industry is leveraging their excellent amino acid profiles and superior digestibility to replace fishmeal ($9.5B industry) and other expensive proteins in animal feeds. Led by co-founders Trina Chiasson (sold Infoactive to Tableau) and Teq Sassmannshaus (biotech hardware engineer), the Ovipost team has deep experience in hardware, software, and biology.