Algemy Ingredients
- Type
- Food & Ingredient Manufacturer
- Location
- Vic, Spain
- Industries
- Food ingredients & products, Alternative proteins, Food reformulation, Consumer health & consumer effects, Farm input, Waste efficiency, Bio-energy & biomaterials
- Domains
- Amino acids, Ingredients, Plant based primary products, Algae, Proteins
- Technologies
- Extraction, Processing, Fermentation, Biotechnology & sustainable inputs, Biorefining, Physical modification
About Algemy Ingredients
Algemy is a microalgae ingredients company focused on unlocking the "green power" of microalgae for food, cosmetics, and plant care applications. It positions itself as a trusted supplier of natural, sustainable, and healthy ingredients, with an emphasis on patented processes, customer development, and alignment with market needs.
The company’s work centers on developing and scaling microalgae-based solutions that can deliver high nutritional value and functional benefits while reducing environmental footprint. Its website highlights a mission to create ingredients that are economically viable, scalable, and supported by objective measurement of both sustainability and health-promoting effects.
Core Values
- Sustainability: Algemy emphasizes low-footprint production, including reduced water use, no pesticides or antibiotics, CO2 capture during growth, and environmentally friendly processing.
- Health and nutrition: The company frames microalgae as a superfood and a source of complete proteins, essential amino acids, omega-3s, vitamins, minerals, and bioactives that support healthier products.
- Innovation: Algemy highlights unique patented processes, advanced extraction and cultivation methods, and ongoing R&D projects to unlock new applications for microalgae.
- Customer alignment: The company stresses market-fit development, working with early adopters and tailoring ingredients to real customer needs.
- Scientific rigor: Algemy says it objectively measures environmental sustainability and health-promoting effects, reflecting a data-driven approach to ingredient development.
Unique Aspects
- Patented microalgae valorisation processes: Algemy’s core differentiation is its focus on developing, licensing, and integrating unique patented processes to maximize the value of microalgae.
- Incubation by Inlecom: The company is incubated by Inlecom, a pan-European innovation group with experience in EU collaborative research projects, which supports Algemy on IP protection, commercialization strategy, and project management.
- Cross-disciplinary team: Its team combines expertise in microalgae R&D, product development, nutrition, sustainability, business strategy, funding, and IP protection.
- Active EU project participation: Algemy is involved in multiple publicly funded projects, including INNOAQUA, GUTBABI, VALITEXT, and CIRCA, showing a strong research and collaboration footprint.
- Broad application scope: The company works across food, cosmetics, and plant care, using the same microalgae platform to address multiple markets.