Paulig venture arm PINC joins €2.4 million funding for Mycoverse

Paulig’s venture capital arm, PINC, has participated in a €2.4 million pre-seed funding round for Mycoverse, a Danish agricultural biotechnology startup. The round was co-led by Future Food Fund and High-Tech Gründerfonds.

Mycoverse utilizes an AI-driven platform to identify fungal metabolites that can serve as biological alternatives to synthetic pesticides. The company’s initial focus is tackling potato late blight, a disease that presents a significant challenge to the European agricultural market. Unlike traditional biological products, Mycoverse's approach avoids the use of living organisms, aiming for more scalable and reliable integration into existing farming systems.

Rosemari Herrero, Senior Investment Manager at PINC, noted that the investment aligns with the need to support sustainable value chains as European regulatory pressure on chemical crop protection intensifies. The initiative serves to address both yield reliability and long-term soil health.