Got Milk? Engineers set to make artificial milk

Muufri, a US based company founded by a group of Indian-origin entrepreneurs, which produces artificial milk has won a Dutch sustainability innovation prize of 200,000 euros.

An international jury chaired by Steve Howard, Chief Sustainability Officer at multinational IKEA Group, awarded Ryan Pandya of Silicon Valley startup Muufri the runner-up prize of the Postcode Lottery Green Challenge 2015.

“It is inspiring to see how these green entrepreneurs are contributing to a better world. All of these ideas have potential for business success and to go to scale, which is the only way we are going to tackle CO2 emissions,” – said Howard

The biotech startup was founded in 2014 by bio-engineers Ryan Pandya, Perumal Gandhi and Isha Datar has identified the proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals in milk and is developing a blending process that has the potential to eliminate vast amounts of greenhouse gas emissions being generated by commercial dairy farming.