ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Maricel brings a deep biotech and sustainability background to Compound Foods. Prior to founding Compound, Maricel co-founded Nextbiotics, a biotech company leveraging synthetic biology to develop antibiotic alternatives and offer solutions to the antibiotic resistance crisis. Before founding Nextbiotics, she spent time at Deloitte as a consultant. As a native Costa Rican, Maricel has always been passionate about sustainability and coffee heritage.
ABOUT COMPOUND FOODS
Compound Foods, the parent company of Minus Coffee, founded by Maricel Saenz, is a biotech company that has pioneered fermentation technology to create coffee without coffee beans, reducing coffee production’s impact on water usage by 94% and lowering greenhouse gas emissions by 87%. Compound Foods’s pioneering fermentation technology creates reconstructed coffee cherries (RCC) and combines with mirobes to recreate coffee varieties. Their technology will significantly reduce the environmental impact of coffee production and enable farmers, manufacturers, and retailers alike to meet and exceed consumer demand. Best of all, Compound tastes just like coffee.
About Compound Foods
