The current system: Corn. Potato. Rice. Refined inputs. Industrial scale. Nutritional compromise.
The material: Organic whole peas. Organic whole beans. Untouched structure. Preserved integrity.
The result: Everyday food. Reconstructed from first principles.
What this creates: Not products. A new production layer for modern food.
Capital — €9M Series A — To build the system in full.
VILUMA food is designed for strategic acquisition by a Tier 1 ingredient or food technology company that needs to own a GFSI-certified organic whole pulse platform rather than source from one. The platform gives an acquirer a configured extrusion process with 12–18 month lead time to replicate, a Baltic organic supply chain in active development, Black Badger™ with confirmed pilot batch ready for commercial launch, and a B2B ingredient engine with active conversations ahead of supply. Acquisition price is determined by platform value — not by current revenue. The €51M pre-money is the floor, not the ceiling. Long-term ambition is to scale VILUMA food into a unicorn-size, globally recognized company with measurable impact on gut health and type 2 diabetes-related outcomes.
Gut and metabolic health are the largest addressable health outcomes in food — because they are both preventive and curative, and because food is the only delivery mechanism that works at everyday scale.
The Evolution of Food Technology
1st Gen: Traditional — Simple, natural snacks like nuts and dried fruit.
2nd Gen: Directly Expanded — Refined flour puffs (corn curls).
3rd Gen: Indirectly Expanded — Multi-ingredient pellets (crisps).
The 4th generation is a different operating principle entirely. No isolates, no pellets, no refined flour—just a raw whole pulse and grain base. Using Tier 1 single-screw extrusion, we preserve the native bioactive matrix: 25–35% protein and 15–25% fibre.
The nutrition isn't added or "claimed"—it is structurally inside and provable by batch record. This alignes with P4 medicine: Predictive, Preventive, Personalized, Participatory.
This aligns with the P4 model of medicine: Predictive, Preventive, Personalized, and Participatory. Snacks designed not to carry a label, but to address specific health biomarkers through what they are made of. The B2B supply engine exists to make this standard available to the wider food industry. Black Badger™ proves it works at consumer scale. Five further B2C brands — Bruno™, Suria™, BARSUK™, kYBA™, and VILUMA Nutrisnacks — extend the platform across markets and channels.
THE TECHNICAL STANDARD
The "4th generation" designation is a technical standard defined by the retention of endogenous nutrients throughout manufacturing. We've moved the focus to nutritional integrity. By changing the base, we change the purpose of everyday food.
VILUMA food is to be the EU's first GFSI-certified organic whole pulse extrusion platform — validated by its own R&D Academy, scaling into pharmacy and clinical nutrition channels with owned brands as proof of concept. The B2B supply engine gives the platform its industrial reach: GFSI-certified organic whole pulse ingredients — extruded base, processed fractions, bulk raw — supplied to European food manufacturers, clinical nutrition producers, and pharmacy channels at a standard the ingredient supply industry has never offered before.
Six B2C brands are built for consumers — not tools to validate a B2B thesis. Black Badger™ is pilot-confirmed and ready for commercial launch. Bruno™, Suria™, BARSUK™, kYBA™, and VILUMA Nutrisnacks are in concept or development stage. Three B2B ingredient lines — PEBE™/BEPE™ extruded base, raw whole pulse and fractions, and clinical ingredient supply — scale the platform independently with the same process, same supply chain, different customer.
VILUMA food is designed for the regulation and consumer expectations of 2030 and beyond — not for where legacy snack plants came from. Where most of today's snack capacity is built on rice flour, cheap corn and potato pellets, high salt and high fat, VILUMA food is a structural capacity play in the opposite direction: organic, whole pulse-based, prevention-oriented, and clinically inspired. Built for where consumers, regulators, and public health are going — with global reach.
Every product in the VILUMA food range is built on the same GFSI-certified process, from the same Baltic organic supply chain, to the same uncompromised standard — whether it reaches a pharmacy shelf, a sports retailer, or a food manufacturer.
The earliest window. Organic whole pulse nutrition from the first solid food. No inert carrier. No synthetic re-fortification. Native bioactive compounds — intact polyphenols, prebiotic fibre, cellular protein — from the first spoonful. The most clinically demanding tier of the platform.
Growing strong. Organic whole pulse finger snacks and cereal formats bridging Suria to the family table. The intact cellular matrix — 25–35% protein, 15–25% fibre — in the formats parents already reach for. Launch into EU pharmacy and premium grocery is funded by the Series A.
An organic whole pulse snack that competes on shelf against conventional extruded snacks — same format, same convenience, real nutritional function. Pea and bean base, GFSI-certified production, ≤5 ingredients, EU organic. A snack that refuses the corn brief and wins on taste. Black Badger™ proves that the base change works at consumer scale — that people choose it, that retailers stock it, and that 4th generation preventive nutrition belongs in everyday formats.
The same whole pulse platform, expressed through Slavic cultural identity. Baltic, Eastern European, and diaspora markets. The base does not change. The story does.
Far East force. Samurai discipline. Shiva energy. Whole organic bean base. The same GFSI-certified process — a different frequency entirely.
Clinical preventive nutrition in everyday formats. GLP-1 companion, post-bariatric, and therapeutic nutrition channels. The same GFSI-certified whole pulse platform applied to the highest-accountability consumer nutrition format. Branding and product range in development.
GFSI-certified organic whole pulse extruded base pre-dust — supplied to food manufacturers, supplement brands, and clinical nutrition producers who want to build on the standard VILUMA food created. PEBE™ (pea-bean extruded base) and BEPE™ (bean-pea extruded base) are the proprietary extruded formats. Custom specification, custom format, full batch documentation. The industrial engine behind the platform.
EU certified organic whole pea and whole bean from Baltic and Nordic farms. Supply chain in active development — farm contracting and traceability in progress. Supplied in 25 kg bags and 500 kg big bags. PE™ organic pea flour and BE™ organic bean flour also available — single-variety, GFSI-certified process, EU organic. Supplied to functional food, clinical nutrition, bakery, and sports nutrition manufacturers globally.
GFSI-certified clinical nutrition ingredient supply for hospital nutrition producers, pharmaceutical food brands, and GLP-1 companion product developers. Same process. Same standard. Full batch record. The B2B expression of the clinical tier.
VILUMA food invented a category. These four coordinates are why that was possible — and why it cannot be easily replicated. They apply whether we are producing Black Badger™ snacks for a sports retailer, clinical nutrition for a GLP-1 programme, or extruded pre-dust for a global food manufacturer. The standard does not flex. That is the invention.
"Embracing pulses is a strategic move that supports both human health — via improved nutritional intake and gut microbiota — and planetary well-being. Pulses need to take centre stage in the human diet. A change that promises far-reaching benefits for all."
Biscarrat, Bedu-Ferrari, Langella, Cherbuy · Pulses: A way to encourage sustainable fiber consumption · INRAE
VILUMΛ food — sees around the corner.
The organic whole pulse. The intact cellular matrix ignored for 60 years because it was harder to work with than corn. The conviction that food can be held to the same standard as medicine. The Baltic field. The batch record that proves what the label claims.
Stepping outside the monopolised supply chain entirely. Specifically configured Tier 1 single-screw extrusion preserving intact matrices no conventional producer preserves at this standard. Building win-win partnerships. Seeing around the corner.
Prevention in the everyday nutrition. Not reactive medicine. Not supplements. Not halo marketing on a hollow base. 589 million people with diabetes. 41 million NCD deaths per year. GLP-1 users who need every calorie to carry clinical nutrition.
4th generation preventive nutrition in the everyday formats people already buy — snacks, baby food, sports nutrition, clinical formats. Six B2C brands — Black Badger™ pilot-confirmed, Suria™, BARSUK™, kYBA™, and VILUMA Nutrisnacks in concept — at the front. Three B2B ingredient lines as the industrial engine. One platform. Consumer-first. Backed by global supply scale.
The UN identifies a direct link between limited crop diversity and persistent malnutrition. Over-reliance on staple crops creates a nutrition gap that affects billions — not through lack of food, but through lack of nutritional range. Pulses are the documented solution: protein-rich, nitrogen-fixing, and accessible. The missing piece has always been industrial infrastructure to deliver them at scale. That is what VILUMA is building.
Sixty years of inert nutrition. Corn flour. Potato pellet. A carrier with no nutritional logic — designed to hold flavour, not deliver function. The food industry did not fail to change the base. It chose not to. VILUMA food changed it.
The '4th generation' designation is defined by one condition: endogenous nutrients retained throughout manufacturing. Not fortified after. Not claimed on the label. Structurally inside — because the process was configured to keep them there. Verifiable by batch record. That is the only definition that holds.
Every force reshaping the food system makes VILUMA food more inevitable — not less. Regulatory tightening on ultra-processed food. Healthcare systems shifting spend toward prevention. GLP-1 adoption exposing the gap between pharmaceutical intervention and food-grade prevention. Consumer trust in legacy brands collapsing. Each shock to the system is a structural argument for what VILUMA food already built. We are not positioned against a trend. We are positioned against the direction of travel of an entire industry that cannot reverse course without dismantling itself.
Once you change the base, you change the purpose of everyday food. Our advantage is not narrative — it is conviction translated into a scalable system.
We invented the category. Now we scale it. The €9M Series A funds the move from pilot to continuous commercial production — the EU rollout of Black Badger™, GFSI-certified production capacity, Baltic organic supply chain establishment, and the B2B ingredient engine that gives the invention industrial permanence. Four further B2C brands scale the consumer platform across markets as production matures. This is a structural capacity play: building the next generation of snack manufacturing at the moment when legacy corn and potato infrastructure cannot meet where consumers, regulators, and public health are going.
We are in conversations with retail and sports nutrition partners for Black Badger™, clinical nutrition co-development partners, B2B ingredient buyers, and Series A investors who understand what a six-brand, three-line preventive nutrition platform is worth. If you are building in this space — reach out.