In this interview, Benjamin Lager, CEO of Protealis, shares how his company is revolutionizing sustainable protein production in Europe. With a mission to localize soybean cultivation, Protealis tackles major global challenges—sustainability, farmer resilience, plant-based food security, and Europe’s protein import dependency. By developing climate-adapted soybean varieties and microbial inoculants for nitrogen fixation, the company is making soybean cultivation viable in European climates while reducing reliance on synthetic fertilizers. With six soybean varieties already on the market, Protealis is now transitioning from an R&D-driven company to a commercial scale-up, aiming to disrupt the protein supply chain with high-tech breeding solutions.
What is The EIC Scaling Club Podcast on European Deep Tech?
Interviews with leading European deep tech scale-up founders, entrepreneurs, startup operator, investors and industry experts from the team behind the EU-funded EIC Scaling Club, an exclusive community for deep tech scale-ups from across Europe.