Kost Studio
- Type
- Professional Service Provider
- Location
- Frederiksberg, Denmark
- Industries
- Alternative proteins, Food ingredients & products, Food reformulation, New food processing techniques, Consumer health & consumer effects, Waste efficiency
- Technologies
- Fermentation, Biotechnology & sustainable inputs
About Kost Studio
Kost is a Copenhagen-based food platform made up of two closely linked parts: Kost Studio, a food development studio, and Kost Capital, a venture capital fund focused on the future of food. Together, they work across research, product development, venture building, and early-stage investment to help bring better food to market.
The group positions itself around the idea of “better food for more people” and “human energy” — supporting companies and projects that aim to improve nutrition, resilience, and the economics of food. Its work spans academia, food science, culture, and business, with a strong emphasis on turning research into real products and scalable ventures.
Core Values
- Better food for more people: The group’s stated mission is to improve access to food that is healthier, more resilient, and more useful to people and the food system.
- Science-led innovation: Kost repeatedly emphasizes the role of food science, academia, and research in creating products and ventures that are grounded in evidence.
- Sustainability and resilience: Its work highlights reduced waste, upcycling, fermentation, and more resilient production models as ways to build a better food system.
- Taste and usability: The studio stresses that sustainability should not compromise taste, and that products must work in real-world commercial settings.
Unique Aspects
- Studio plus fund model: Kost combines a food development studio with a venture capital fund, allowing it to support ideas from research and concept through to investment and scale.
- Cross-disciplinary team: The team includes a gastrophysicist, a Michelin-star chef, a food historian, and consumer-behaviour expertise, giving the group an unusually broad mix of scientific, culinary, and commercial perspectives.
- Spin-out approach: Kost Studio says it has designed a spin-out model with Kost Capital that turns research into proof-of-concept and then into scalable IP, with support from EIT Food.
- Named portfolio and projects: Publicly listed work includes ventures and projects such as BlueCell Bio, Luvi Bio, REST, Muri, Lillow, Wavy Wonders, and the Interdisciplinary Future Food Network.
- Known-news funding and backers: Kost Capital was reported in 2024 as a new Danish VC fund with a €25 million target, backed by EIFO and founding limited partners including Kasper Hulthin, Christian Tang-Jespersen, Mark Emil Hermansen, and Jacob Lee Ørnstrand.