{"id":52718,"date":"2026-04-21T09:40:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/52718\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:40:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:40:56","slug":"planetary-raises-chf-22-million-to-scale-its-fermentation-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/52718\/","title":{"rendered":"Planetary raises CHF 22 million to scale its fermentation technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva-based fermentation company Planetary has closed a CHF 16 million Series A equity round supplemented by CHF 6 million in credit, bringing total funding raised to approximately CHF 32 million, to expand its global technology licensing platform and consumer product rollout.<\/p>\n<p>Geneva-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetarygroup.ch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Planetary SA<\/a> has closed a CHF 16 million Series A equity financing round supplemented by CHF 6 million in credit, bringing total funding to approximately CHF 32 million. The round was led by Radikal Capital and Oetker Ventures, with participation from Royal Cosun, which <a href=\"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/royal-cosun-invests-chf-3-million-in-planetary-to-advance-sustainable-fermentation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously invested CHF 3 million in the company in January 2025<\/a>, alongside arc investors, Green Generation Fund, AgriFoodTech Venture Alliance, and existing investors Astanor Ventures and XAnge. A second closing is planned for later this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Planetary operates a full-stack fermentation platform spanning bioprocess design, scale-up, and industrial manufacturing through its WIPO GREEN-listed BioBlocks system. Its core commercial strategy centers on licensing this technology globally to agro-industrial players, particularly sugar companies, enabling the conversion of low-value agricultural side streams into high-value proteins, fibers, and enzymes. A key initiative targets ultra-low-cost mycoprotein production below USD 1 per kilogram through partnerships in sucrose-rich, protein-deficient geographies including India.<\/p>\n<p>On the consumer side, the company continues to build on the national rollout of its MyVay Gourmet Filet, a mycoprotein-based <a href=\"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/planetary-brings-mycoprotein-based-chicken-filet-to-242-aldi-stores-across-switzerland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vegetarian chicken filet launched across all 242 Aldi Switzerland stores in July 2025<\/a> at price parity with conventional chicken. Under its B2B brand Libre Foods, Planetary is now expanding across Europe into alternative meat and dairy, meat hybrid products, fiber-rich products, and protein fortification applications. Industrial-scale production is already operational at its Aarberg facility in the canton of Bern, the only commercial mycoprotein site in continental Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geneva-based fermentation company Planetary has closed a CHF 16 million Series A equity round supplemented by CHF 6&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[24719,21942,21000,24720,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-52718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-agritech","9":"tag-financing","10":"tag-food-beverages","11":"tag-foodtech","12":"tag-switzerland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116442043860399102","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}