NutriLeads
Company

Last deal

$4.91M
Local Amount - EUR 4.5M

Amount

Series C

Stage

18.12.2023

Date

3

all rounds

$14.53M

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

General

About Company
NutriLeads is an innovative startup that develops nutritional ingredients with demonstrated health effects.

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founded date

01.01.2012

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Series C

IPO status

Private

Description

NutriLeads partners with relevant companies to identify promising lead ingredients, develop sustainable and commercially viable production processes, and initiate scientific & clinical programs to substantiate the health effects of these ingredients. Their crop-derived food ingredients support physiological processes in the human body and modulate the gut microbiome, helping the food industry to bring the benefits of its clinically tested ingredients as dietary supplements and in specialized functional food & beverage products to consumers. NutriLeads' proprietary ingredients undergo clinical trials to demonstrate their efficacy in improving human health and are taken through regulatory approval for market access before being licensed out to partner companies who will incorporate the ingredients in their finished (food) products.
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Erik Dam
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Erik Dam has been involved with NutriLeads since 2014 and became a co-founder with Ruud in 2015. He started his career at Andersen Consulting before entering the Life Sciences & Healthcare industry in 1993 at Baxter. At Baxter he held a variety of international marketing and general management roles up to VP Renal EMEA. In 2005 Erik joined the Medical Nutrition division of Numico (acquired by Danone in 2007) where he held various global VP roles in strategy, finance, sales and general management. He started his own consultancy company at the end of 2013 with a focus on commercialising Nutrition, Life Sciences & Healthcare innovations. Erik holds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Delft University of Technology and an MBA from IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Ruud Albers
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Ruud Albers founded NutriLeads in 2012 and acted as a consultant for international ingredient, food and pharma companies between 2012 and 2016. Previously, he worked at Unilever from 1998. During his 14 years there he built and led the global expertise group on nutrition, immunity and gut health in various roles up to Global R&D Director of Bioscience, Nutrition & Health Discover Platforms. He initiated numerous (international) collaborations and is co-inventor of NL-01 (NutriLeads’ first active ingredient). From 2007 to 2012 he also chaired the ILSI-Europe taskforce on nutrition and immunity that published seminal papers on immunomodulation in humans. Ruud obtained his PhD on immunomodulation at Utrecht University and studied intestinal metabolism at Rockefeller University in New York.

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NutriLeads

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Employee Profiles
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Annick Mercenier

Annick Mercenier

Chief Innovation Officer

Maria Tzoumaki

Maria Tzoumaki

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Erik Dam

Erik Dam

Chief Business Officer and Co-Founder

Ruud Albers

Ruud Albers

Founder and CEO

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