Company attributes
Industry
Location
B2X
Pitchbook URL
Legal classification
Date Incorporated
2011
Number of Employees (Ranges)
201 – 5000
Email Address
contact@ynsect.com
Phone Number
+33160878957
Full Address
Génopole, 1, rue Pierre Fontaine, Evry, Ile-de-France 91058, FR
Investors
Founded Date
2011
0Total Funding Amount (USD)
393,291,561
Latest Funding Round Date
April 7, 2025
Glassdoor ID
Latest Funding Type
Patents Assigned (Count)
2
Country
Other attributes
Company Operating Status
Active
Invested in
Latest Funding Round Amount (USD)
11,000,000
Wikidata ID
As of February 2019, Ynsect had raised $175m in funding. Ynsect plans to construct a production farm in Amiens, Northern France and a factory in North America. The farms will be run by robots. The type of mealworm beetle raised by Ynsect is used in fish food, pet food and plant fertilizer.
The company expects that their farm will produce about 20,000 tons of protein per year on an automated farm that uses machines to feed, monitor and harvest the insects as one-inch larvae. The larvae are boiled and processed into a brownish powder which can go into food for shrimp, salmon and trout. The company has a smaller scale production already in Burgundy where it uses sensors and predictive mathematical models for automation.
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