Kanara

kanaralabs.com ↗ ·Santa Cruz de Tenerife ·Pre-seed

Kanara (Kanara Labs) is a Spanish deeptech biotech that produces plant-derived active compounds — resveratrol, polyphenols, cannabinoids, active pharmaceutical ingredients and biofuel precursors — via in vitro plant cell culture in modular bioreactors with non-GMO stem cells, avoiding land-intensive farming. Founded in 2021 and based in Tenerife (Canary Islands), it is a small pre-seed/grant-funded team (~2-10 people) targeting the pharma, cosmetics and nutraceutical industries, and in 2026 became the only Spanish company selected for the EU's EIC Pre-Accelerator, winning a €499,000 grant; it also works with energy group Moeve on cellular-agriculture biofuels. Its funding to date is public grants and accelerator programmes, ~$570K in total.

Founded

2021

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SectorsBiotechnology, Cellular agriculture, Pharmaceuticals, Cosmetics ingredients, Agtech, Sustainability Start-up MapHealthtech & Bio › R&D tools & software for life sciences

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Founders

Eduardo W. Jørgensen

Scientific Affairs & Co-Founder

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Jorge Gutiérrez

CTO & Co-Founder

Leopoldo Machado

CEO & Co-Founder

Raúl Clemente

CFO & Co-Founder

Global models 4

Ayana Bio

United States · ayanabio.com ↗

Grows plant cell lines in bioreactors to make standardised plant bioactives and sells them as ingredients to nutraceutical, health and cosmetics companies, the same B2B model as Kanara.

$30MComparable

California Cultured

United States · californiacultured.com ↗

Uses plant cell culture in bioreactors to make cocoa and coffee compounds such as flavanol cocoa powder, sold as ingredients to food companies like Meiji instead of relying on farming.

$15.9MComparable

Kokomodo

Israel · kokomodo.com ↗

Produces cocoa ingredients from plant cell culture in bioreactors and sells them to industrial buyers, replacing land-heavy crop farming.

$7MComparable

Celleste Bio

Israel · cellestebio.com ↗

Multiplies cocoa plant cells in bioreactors to supply cocoa butter and powder to food manufacturers such as Mondelez, a B2B plant-cell-culture ingredient model.

$4.5MComparable

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AgrotecUV

www.uv.es/agrotecuv ↗

Investor Spain

Funding rounds

No announced rounds on record.

News 3

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Published	Article
2026-05-19	Kanara Becomes Only Spanish Company Selected for European Innovation Council Pre-accelerator Program ↗ EU Startups News 2026-05-19
2025-06-18	Moeve selects nine startups to accelerate its energy transition and that of its customers ↗ Moeve (press release) 2025-06-18
2025-04-07	Kanara, la empresa canaria que quiere plantarle cara al mercado asiático de la cosmética ↗ Atlántico Hoy 2025-04-07