Investment area
Seed Investments
Planetary Health Investments
Region
Europe
Date of investment
June 2020
Chromologics is a biotech spin-out from the Technical University of Denmark. The company has have developed a fungal biotech platform for production of natural colorants that are suitable for lab-grown food colorants. The production process is sustainable, scalable and cost-competitive. Unlike other existing natural colors, the colorants are not extracted from high value raw materials like fruit and vegetables but produced in a cell factory.
Contact
Thomas Grotkjær
Partner
Department: Planetary Health Investments
Thomas joined Novo Holdings in 2017 and is Partner in the Planetary Health Investments team where he also oversees the Nordic early-stage activities.
Prior to joining Novo Holdings, Thomas worked in business development at Novozymes where he introduced advanced yeast technology to the biofuel industry and built a portfolio of biochemical projects. Earlier in this career, he was part of the venture capital backed start-up company Fluxome Sciences. He also held positions in biotechnology research and process engineering at Toftejorg (now Alfa Laval) and the Carlsberg Breweries.
Thomas holds a PhD in Metabolic Engineering and a MSc in Chemical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark as well as graduate diplomas in Business Administration (Marketing Management and Finance) from Copenhagen Business School.
