Melt&Marble

Food Biotechnology · Food Ingredients
$14.1Mtotal raised · 3 rounds on record
1open role
$7.9Mlatest round · Series A · Dec 2025 · 11 mo ago
2backers · Chalmers Ventures, Industrifonden

Overview

Melt&Marble is a food technology company that uses precision fermentation to create designer fats for the food industry. Its fats aim to close the taste gap between animal and plant-based meats, and the company hires laboratory technicians, business developers and manufacturing specialists. The company is headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Funding and backers

Total raised
$14.1M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$7.9M
Series A · Dec 2025 · 11 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
2
open roles
Backers
2
Chalmers Ventures, Industrifonden
The money's age
Fresh money
11 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
20/100
fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jul 17 Launched Melt&Marble Launches Precision-Fermented Fat for Beauty & Personal Care · Green Queen Dec 8, 2025 Raised a round Series A $7.9M · Green Queen May 6, 2022 Raised a round Seed $5.4M · Green Queen Aug 20, 2021 Raised a round Seed $810k · Mynewsdesk Aug 2021 Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
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Web presence
top 2%
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Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series A Dec 2025 $7.9M — Green Queen
Seed May 2022 $5.4M — Green Queen
Seed Aug 2021 $810k — Mynewsdesk
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Jobs

≈ $45k – $102k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · Gothenburg
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
2
0 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
23 days
faster than 54% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Management
33% ▼
Operations
33% ▼
Field & Service
33% ▲

Financials

Total raised
$14.1M
Latest round
Series A
Funding rounds
3
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series A 2025 $7.9M Details
Seed 2022 $5.4M Details
Seed 2021 $810k Details

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Shared investors2
IndustrifondenVia a fund
88 portfolio companies: ZeroPoint Technologies AB, Olsaro, Zymego.com and 85 more
104 portfolio companies: Avanza, Lc tec, Scaffcalc and 101 more

News

News vegconomist.com 4 months ago
Melt&Marble Brings First Fermented Lipid to Cosmetics Formulators With Marble7 Launch - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
Melt&Marble has made Marble7 commercially available, its first ingredient for the personal care market and its first product to reach commercial
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News Green Queen 4 months ago
Melt&Marble Launches Precision-Fermented Fat for Beauty & Personal Care
Swedish precision fermentation startup Melt&Marble has debuted Marble7, its animal-free "designer fat" for the beauty and personal care sector.
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Blog 4 months ago
Melt&Marble Announces Commercial Launch of Marble7, a Precision-Fermented Bioactive Lipid for Personal Care
Marble7 is Melt&Marble's first commercially available personal care ingredient. A new collaboration with Covalo will make the ingredient easier for beauty and personal care formulators to discover, evaluate and sample. Melt&Marble showcased its 3-in-1 bio
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News New Food 8 months ago
Melt&Marble secures US self-affirmed GRAS status for fermented fat ingredient
The regulatory milestone clears the path for US sales of precision-fermented fat designed for meat, dairy, confectionery and bakery applications.
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News FoodBev Media 8 months ago
Melt&Marble achieves self-GRAS status in US for alt-fat solution
Swedish precision fermentation start-up Melt&Marble has secured self-affirmed GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) status in the US for its MeltyMarble fat solution.
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News Green Queen 8 months ago
Melt&Marble Earns Self-Affirmed GRAS Status for Animal-Free 'Designer Fats' in the US
Swedish precision fermentation startup Melt&Marble has secured clearance to sell its animal-free fat for food in the US and personal care lipid internationally.
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Blog 8 months ago
Melt&Marble accelerates commercial readiness with regulatory approvals and team growth
MeltyMarble fermented fat receives self-GRAS status, enabling US sales Personal care lipid, Marble7 , receives INCI name: r-Saccharomyces Butter Key new hires propel Melt&Marble towards first commercial launches Gothenburg, 11 March 2026 - Melt&Marble , t
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News Pulse 2.0 11 months ago
Melt&Marble: €7.3 Million Series A Closed To Commercialize Precision-Fermented Designer Fats
Melt&Marble, a Gothenburg-based biotech company developing designer fats using precision fermentation, has raised €7.3 million (80 MSEK) in a Series A round to scale production and bring its first ingredients to market for personal care and food applicati
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Gothenburg
Gothenburg Sweden
HQ
2 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Management, Science & Research
seen since Oct 2022 job postings