Bioento

bioento.com ↗ ·Madrid ·Seed

Bioento (Bioento Farm) is a Spanish biotech and circular-economy company founded in 2017 near Madrid that breeds black soldier fly larvae to consume organic waste and by-products, converting them into proteins and lipids for animal feed and natural fertilizers/bio-stimulants for agriculture. It operates Spain's first insect breeding center at industrial scale, serving agriculture, livestock, food manufacturing, and wastewater-treatment clients, and has around 14-50 employees.

Founded

2017

Founders

Total funds raised

€600K

SectorsBiotechnology, Circular Economy, Waste Management, AgTech, Animal Feed Start-up MapFoodtech & Agtech › Alternative protein & novel ingredients

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Founders

Borja Melgar

Co-founder, Production/Technical Director

Javier Martínez

Co-founder

Global models 5

Ynsect

France · www.ynsect.com ↗

Insect (mealworm) farming converting biomass into protein and fertilizer for animal feed and agriculture, the same insect-based circular-economy model as Bioento.

$625MComparable

InnovaFeed

France · www.innovafeed.com ↗

Industrial-scale black soldier fly farming producing insect protein and lipids for animal feed, directly matching Bioento's core process.

$500M+Comparable

AgriProtein

South Africa/United Kingdom · agriprotein.com ↗

Pioneer of waste-to-insect-protein factories using fly larvae to process organic waste into animal feed, the same waste-valorization model as Bioento.

$120M+Comparable

Protix

Netherlands · protix.eu ↗

Insect (black soldier fly) ingredient producer turning organic side-streams into protein and lipids for feed, closely mirroring Bioento's model.

$120MComparable

Beta Hatch

United States · betahatch.com ↗

Mealworm farming startup converting organic feedstock into insect protein and frass fertilizer, a smaller-scale analogue of Bioento's larvae-to-product process.

$14MComparable