Ukko
Safer Proteins for People with Food Allergies and Sensitivities
Startup A Agriculture & Food Technologies Est. 2016
Total Raised
$47.7M
A
Last Round
Undisclosed
3 rounds
Investors
11
11 public
Team
5
51-200 employees
Confidence
98/100
News
6
articles
About
Ukko's mission is to improve the lives of people with food allergies and sensitivities. Ukko uses immunology, machine learning, and protein engineering to make measurably better and safer proteins for use in food and therapeutics. Ukko does this by designing and controlling the molecular interactions between allergen proteins and the immune system. Ukko's technology uses samples from patients and machine learning to guide the engineering of superior proteins that can be incorporated into food products and therapeutics. These proteins maintain or improve beneficial properties (taste, nutritional value, yield, and physicochemical and mechanical properties) but do not trigger an immune response. Ukko's initial product pipeline includes celiac-safe gluten proteins, allergy-safe and therapeutic peanut proteins, as well as a pipeline of additional allergen proteins.
Classification
Sector
Agriculture & Food TechnologiesFood TechNovel Food & Ingredients
Core Technology
Artificial IntelligenceBiologicals
Target Customer
Healthcare & Life SciencesLife SciencesPharmaceuticalsAgriculture & FoodProcessed FoodsIngredients
Business Model
B2B
Tags
biotechnologyfoodtechfood-ingredientsmolecular-biologyconsumersbig-datapharmaceuticalstherapeuticsimmunologyallergyproteinsartificial-intelligence
Funding & Events
Jun 2025
A Round Undisclosed
Sanara Capital
Jul 2017
A Round $7.7M
Marc Benioff, Izhar Armony, Khosla Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Slow Ventures
Jan 2021
B Round $40M
Leaps by Bayer (Lead), Khosla Ventures, PeakBridge , Fall Line Capital, Continental Grain Company, Skyviews LifeScience, Innovation Endeavors, Marc Benioff
News (6)
Nov 2, 2021 ยท www.calcalist.co.il
growth-positive
"ืคื™ืชื—ื ื• ื’ืœื•ื˜ืŸ ื‘ื˜ื•ื— ืขื‘ื•ืจ ื—ื•ืœื™ ืฆืœื™ืืง ืฉืžืกืคืจื ืžื›ืคื™ืœ ืืช ืขืฆืžื• ื›ืœ ื›ืžื” ืฉื ื™ื" ื›ืœื›ืœื™ืกื˜
Customers
Apr 14, 2021 ยท www.haaretz.com
growth-positive
The Israeli startup trying to reimagine wheat
InvestmentExpand
Jan 27, 2021 ยท www.calcalistech.com
growth-positive
Ukko raises $40 million to develop solutions for food allergies and sensitivities
InvestmentExpand
Jan 27, 2021 ยท www.calcalistech.com
growth-positive
Ukko raises $40 million to develop solutions for food allergies and sensitivities
InvestmentExpand
Jan 27, 2021 ยท agfundernews.com
growth-positive
Ukko scores $40m in Bayer-led Series B for anti-allergy foodtech
Investment
Jan 27, 2021 ยท www.forbes.com
growth-positive
Synthetic Biology Partners With AI To Delete Food Allergies
Investment
Details
Product Stage
R&D
Employees
51-200
Exact Count
51
District
Center District
Founded
2016
Registrar
515685550
Crunchbase
ukko
Locations
HaMada Street 12, Rehovot, Israel
1845 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA
Links
Website
LinkedIn
Twitter
Admin
Last Update
Oct 5, 2025
Verified by
Yamila Silbert
Claimed
Yes
Missing
video or image, markets
Team (5)
Yanay Ofran
Co-founder & Chairman
Founder
Anat Binur
Co-founder & CEO
Founder
Moshe Ben-David
CTO
Judith Weiss Paltiel
VP Development
Leora Bachrach
VP of HR
Internal
Created by
Hilla Gorokhovsky (hilla.gorokhovsky@sncentral.org)
Created
2019-02-17T00:00:00.000Z
Last editor
Ortal Wein (ortalw@sncentral.org)