Dairy alternatives are not as appealing as dairy products largely due the unavailability of a stable fat ingredient. Time-travelling Milkman (TTM) is a B2B company that will produce and sell stable plant-based fat ingredients for sustainable and appetizing dairy alternatives.
TTM is taking inspiration from solutions provided by Nature. It has been greatly overlooked that inside plant seeds, fats are organised in naturally occurring fat droplets, called Oleosomes. Oleosome fat droplets are the ideal milk fat equivalent due to the following reasons :
• A very compact half-membrane makes Oleosomes droplets as stable as milk fat droplets.
• Oleosomes have shown a high potential as milk fat equivalents for creamy and tasty dairy alternatives.
• Oleosome fat droplets are healthy ingredients and can be produced from European seeds without solvents.
The primary objective of TTM will be to investigate how can the noteworthy qualities of Oleosome fat droplets be successfully conveyed to dairy alternatives.
Location: Netherlands, Gelderland, Wageningen
Employees: 1-10
Total raised: $1.58M
Founded date: 2020
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| 14.07.2021 | SHIFT Inve... | shiftinves... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 04.04.2024 | - | $923.95K | - |
| 06.07.2021 | - | $651.21K | - |
Mentions in press and media 9
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| 06.04.2024 | Time-Travelling Milkman Revolutionizes Plant-Based Dairy wit... | Dutch startup Time-travelling Milkman (TTM) has secured €850K in funding to enhance the appeal of da... | parsers.vc... |
| 04.04.2024 | Time-Travelling Milkman Raises €850K to “Cream” Plant-Based ... | Dutch startup Time-travelling Milkman (TTM) has raised €850,000 in funding to scale production and e... | vegconomis... |
| 02.04.2024 | Wageningen-based Time-travelling Milkman secures €850K to ma... | Read this article in: Wageningen, Netherlands-based Time-travelling Milkman, a food tech company, an... | siliconcan... |
| 25.01.2024 | C16 Biosciences: Palm Oil Alternative Startup Receives $4.5M... | 5 Mins Read New York-based C16 Biosciences has received a $3.5M grant from the Bill and Melinda Gate... | greenqueen... |
| 28.09.2023 | PALM-ALT: Could This Palm Oil Alternative Be the ‘Holy Grail... | 5 Mins Read A new sustainable fat by Edinburgh’s Queen Margaret University (QMU) is the latest to jo... | greenqueen... |
| 13.07.2021 | No More Palm Oil in Plant-Based: Time-Travelling Milkman Off... | Dutch start-up Time-Travelling Milkman (TTM) produces creamy, sustainable fat ingredients for alt da... | vegconomis... |
| 06.07.2021 | Time-travelling Milkman Receives €550K Investment For Plant-... | Time-travelling Milkman (TTM), a spin-off of Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and StartL... | start-life... |
| 28.04.2021 | StartLife Welcomes Time-travelling Milkman And Innogusto In ... | StartLife alumnus Time-travelling Milkman and Innogusto have joined the startup community located ... | start-life... |
| 02.07.2020 | StartLife Alumni Updates – July 2020 | Brief updates from StartLife Alumni and Community members. In the context of our energy transitio... | start-life... |