The market for food colouring has continuously moved from synthetic to natural solutions over the last decade. Chromologics is a leading force in this transition and their flagship colorant ChromoRed is the first in a new generation of colorants.
ChromoRed is a novel and unique colorant and is exclusively produced by sustainable fermentation processes, instead of being extracted from plants or animals. The product recently won the Business Acceleration Academy Award from the BioInnovation Institute in Denmark and the seed round enables Chromologics to further develop the product as well as expand their portfolio to include even more colorants of the future.
Chromologics is a Danish biotech spin-out from the Technical University of Denmark founded in 2017 by Gerit Tolborg and Anders Ødum. Gerit Tolborg and Anders Ødum met in 2016 at DTU National Food Institute, when they were both pursuing academic careers at the Technical University of Denmark.
After an exciting discovery of a novel group of fungal pigments during Gerit Tolborg’s PhD, they founded Chromologics. Through several soft money grants from Novo Nordisk Foundation and the Innovation Foundation, Chromologics was able to mature the technology to attract international venture capital for the further production of novel, natural colorants.