We upcycle by-products from the beer brewing process into high-quality ingredients, thus promoting the circular economy.
Location: Switzerland, Aargau, Brugg
Employees: 1-10
Total raised: $9.93M
Founded date: 2020
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 17.12.2024 | - | $9.93M | - |
Mentions in press and media 9
| Date | Title | Description |
| 19.12.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Rebel Foods raises $210m, Terradot bags $58m, Plenty shutters Compton farm | This week, India-based Rebel Foods raised a whopping $210 million for its cloud kitchen business and Brazilian climate tech Terradot, now headquarterd in San Francisco, closed a $58 million Series A round. Outside of funding, vertical farmi... |
| 18.12.2024 | Brewing Innovation: Yeastup's Leap into Sustainable Protein Production | In the heart of Switzerland, a quiet revolution is brewing. Yeastup, a company specializing in extracting high-quality ingredients from spent brewers’ yeast, has raised CHF 8.9 million in Series A funding. This infusion of capital will tran... |
| 17.12.2024 | Yeastup Raises €9.47M to Turn Dairy Site Into Facility Upcycling Spent Brewers’ Yeast | Switzerland’s Yeastup, a company that extracts functional ingredients from spent brewers’ yeast using a patented process, has raised CHF 8.9 million (€9.47 million) in Series A funding. The funding will enable Yeastup to repurpose a former ... |
| 17.12.2024 | CHF 8.9 million to scale yeast-based isolates high quality protein and fibers | Yeastup extracts highly functional ingredients from brewers’ spent yeast using its patented process. This innovation isolates protein, beta-glucan and mannoprotein in a single industrial process, resulting in a vegan yeast-based protein Ye... |
| 29.01.2024 | Three startups wave the Swiss innovation flags across Europe | The 9th edition of the Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge received 4500 applications from which the selection committee selected 70 finalists that demonstrated superior technological innovation, economic viability, leadership, team structure,... |
| 21.07.2023 | Frisches Geld für hochwertige Proteine aus Brauerei-Nebenstrom | |
| 07.06.2023 | A gender-balanced winning cohort in the SEIF Awards | |
| 24.05.2023 | The SEIF Tech for Impact Awards nears the finale | |
| - | Yeastup | “We upcycle by-products from the beer-brewing process into high-quality ingredients, thus promoting the circular economy.” |