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WHO WE ARE

Founded in 2019, Helaina is a biotech company, advancing nutrition with bioactive ingredients that promote vitality across all stages of life.

We unlock our bodies’ innate power and scalieit with our proprietary precision fermentation platform. Helaina is the first company to bring the functional properties of human proteins to nutrition.

OUR VALUES

Helaina’s biomanufacturing platform powers a bioactive protein pipeline that will advance human health span. Our bio-manfactured human proteins are better for people and the planet.

OUR PURPOSE

We believe that access to advanced and sustainable nutrition balances individual and societal health as well as for the planet.





 

Meet Laura Katz

Laura Katz, food scientist, is Founder and CEO of Helaina, a New York City-based biotech company pushing the boundaries of what food can do for health. With its immune-nourishing glycoproteins, Helaina will be the first company to bring the immunity properties of breast milk to food for all stages of life.

Disrupting the stagnant infant formula category, and meeting booming consumer demand for food with immunity power, Helaina has raised more than $25 million from leading investors.

Laura became NYU’s youngest ever adjunct professor in Food Science & Technology in 2017 and was featured in Forbes’ 30 under 30 list in 2022. She has presented at Collision, Food Hack, Fortune Most Powerful Women NextGen, Future Food Tech, Harvard Business School and Web Summit.

Prior to Helaina, Laura developed food products for NUGGS, Plated, and Dylan’s Candy Bar. Laura has reached viral success as a food scientist, generating $60M+ views via an 11-episode stint as the expert food scientist for Epicurious’ 4-Levels video series. She earned a Master’s in Food Studies from NYU, and a Bachelor of Sciences in Food Science and Technology from Western University. In her free time, she can be found hanging out with her husband, son Leo, and their Italian Water Dog, Fontina Prosciutto, and writing recipes in hopes of one day publishing a cookbook.

BOARD INVESTORS

 

ASHLEY LARKIN

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PAOLA DELGADO
CHIEF PROBLEM SOLVER

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SARA KAPLAN

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DR. PAMELA BOTERO BESADA-LOMBANA
HEAD OF EARLY-STAGE R&D

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MARIE TREMBLAY
HEAD OF NEW PROD DEV

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DR. CARRIE MALINCZAK
HEAD OF IMMUNOLOGY

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DR. XIAONING LU
HEAD OF ANALYTICS

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DR. ROSS PETERSON
DIRECTOR REGULATORY AFFAIRS

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DR. ANTHONY CLARK
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

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 THE TEAM

 

WARREN SAEGTAWESIN

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ANTHONY OSUALA

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JANICE SNIPPER

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KAHLER NEWSHAM

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INSEOB CHOI

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JUNE SASS

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PATRA AKAYA

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CLAIRE CARLSON

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CHAD CHUMMINGS

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EMMA CRUITE

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BELLA BREEN

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EMILY GILMAN

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SOPHIA WILFRED

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ELISABETH LITVAK

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HARLEY BROUSSARD

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BRYCE FERRARO

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ROMA VISHWANATH

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YANISA ANAYA

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CLAIRE CAMPBELL

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BRITTNEY HELLNER

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SINDHU GOLLAPUDI

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HALA IQBAL

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ZACH LEVENS

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