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Available exclusively through 915 Labs, MATS is a solution to one of the most pressing challenges facing our industry today: meeting the growing consumer demand for high quality, natural and additive-free packaged foods.
MATS — or Microwave Assisted Thermal Sterilization — is a modern, fast, and effective way of sterilizing food that vastly improves the quality, taste, and nutritional value of shelf-stable foods. This breakthrough technology enables food manufacturers to deliver a wide variety of high quality, nutritious and clean-label packaged foods with mass-market distribution, pricing and convenience.
MATS natural food processing and packaging will allow food companies to transform the ‘center of the store’ by cleaning up the labels of existing products and launching new natural food products.
How MATS Works
In conventional thermal processing, in order to effectively eliminate food pathogens and spoilage microorganisms, packaged foods are placed in huge pressure cookers at high temperatures for up to an hour. To mask the damage caused by this prolonged exposure to high heat, salt, flavor, texture enhancers and color enhancers and other unnatural ingredients must be added.
MATS accomplishes the same level of safe food sterilization in just minutes by simultaneously immersing packaged food in pressurized hot water and heating it with microwave energy at a frequency of 915 megahertz. This patented microwave system heats food much more rapidly, consistently, and uniformly than home microwave ovens. As a result, MATS natural food processing preserves the nutrients, color, texture, and flavor of foods — while providing a shelf life equivalent to conventionally processed foods.
915 Labs manufacturers a full-scale production system, the MATS-150, and a pilot-scale system, the MATS-B, and has partnered with some of the leading packaging suppliers in the world to create an integrated Packaging Solutions Program for the MATS system.
MATS — or Microwave Assisted Thermal Sterilization — is a modern, fast, and effective way of sterilizing food that vastly improves the quality, taste, and nutritional value of shelf-stable foods. This breakthrough technology enables food manufacturers to deliver a wide variety of high quality, nutritious and clean-label packaged foods with mass-market distribution, pricing and convenience.
MATS natural food processing and packaging will allow food companies to transform the ‘center of the store’ by cleaning up the labels of existing products and launching new natural food products.
How MATS Works
In conventional thermal processing, in order to effectively eliminate food pathogens and spoilage microorganisms, packaged foods are placed in huge pressure cookers at high temperatures for up to an hour. To mask the damage caused by this prolonged exposure to high heat, salt, flavor, texture enhancers and color enhancers and other unnatural ingredients must be added.
MATS accomplishes the same level of safe food sterilization in just minutes by simultaneously immersing packaged food in pressurized hot water and heating it with microwave energy at a frequency of 915 megahertz. This patented microwave system heats food much more rapidly, consistently, and uniformly than home microwave ovens. As a result, MATS natural food processing preserves the nutrients, color, texture, and flavor of foods — while providing a shelf life equivalent to conventionally processed foods.
915 Labs manufacturers a full-scale production system, the MATS-150, and a pilot-scale system, the MATS-B, and has partnered with some of the leading packaging suppliers in the world to create an integrated Packaging Solutions Program for the MATS system.
Overview
Location
United States, Colorado, Centennial
Employees
1-10
Total raised
$3M
Founded date
2014
Funding Rounds 1
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| Aug 11, 2017 | Amazon said to be exploring refrigeration-free prepared meal tech | You may have heard the term ‘MRE’ – otherwise known as “Meal, Ready-to-Eat” – bandied about in discussions related to the military or survivalists. Now, it looks like Amazon is exploring ways to produce its own MREs, but with the aim of cre... |
| May 27, 2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Trimble Acquires Precision Ag Co, Accelerator Announcements, Do Food Delivery Drivers Need Food Safety Rules? | Trimble to Acquire Müller-Elektronik to Extend its Precision Agriculture Capabilities Trimble recently inked an agreement to acquire Müller-Elektronik, a German company specializing in implement control and precision farming solutions. Fina... |
| Apr 12, 2016 | How Technologies Developed for Other Sectors are Revolutionizing Food Production | Editor’s Note: Kevin Zussman is an agtech investor with Cultivian Sandbox, a venture capital firm that invests in food & agriculture technology startups. Cultivian Sandbox is a joint venture between Cultivian Ventures and Sandbox Ventur... |
| Nov 30, 2015 | 4 Questions with 915 Labs’ CEO after $3m Seed Round for Sterilization and Food Processing Technology | Food processing technology provider 915 Labs recently closed a $3 million seed round with food tech investors New Ground Ventures and early stage investors Theorem Ventures to help build out the company’s Microwave Assisted Thermal Steriliz... |
| Nov 4, 2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 4, 2015 | Atreca completed $56M funding; Zhihu raised $50M; The History Project launched with $2M funding The History Project, an Oakland, CA-based platform that allows users to take control of digital and physical assets and build them into shareabl... |
| Nov 4, 2015 | 915 Labs Raises $3M in Funding | 915 Labs, a Denver, CO-based provider of new food processing and packaging technology called Microwave Assisted Thermal Sterilization (MATS), raised $3m in funding. Backers included New Ground Ventures and Theorem Ventures. The company is u... |
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FAQ about 915 Labs
When was 915 Labs founded?
915 Labs was founded in 2014.
How much funding has 915 Labs raised?
915 Labs has raised $3M in total across 1 funding round.
What has the press written about 915 Labs?
Parsers VC has collected 7 articles mentioning 915 Labs, among them “Amazon said to be exploring refrigeration-free prepared meal tech” (Aug 11, 2017) and “Ag Industry Brief: Trimble Acquires Precision Ag Co, Accelerator Announcements, Do Food Delivery Drivers Need Food Safety Rules?” (May 27, 2017).
Is 915 Labs still active?
Yes, 915 Labs is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Aug 11, 2017.