
We are
Farmless meet our fermers

Creating a future worth getting excited about
Our mission
Farmless was founded to free protein production from animals and agricultural land.

Our story
Back in 2017, our fermer-in-chief Adnan Oner asked himself: which important problem is no one solving? After reading hundreds of papers and doing years of research he came to the conclusion that large scale animal agriculture is one of the biggest problems threatening the planet.
Adnan discovered something that almost no one was working on: brewing food independently from agricultural land. Because of its tiny foodprint this means that instead of cutting down forests we could be giving back farmland to nature, reforest our planet, reverse biodiversity loss and draw down gigatons of carbon.
Based in Amsterdam, Farmless has a team of committed fermers who are working hard on bringing tasty food to your table.
Creating a future worth getting excited about
The team that
brews the proteins

Dr. Marko Kuijper
Fermentation Development Specialist

Dr. Ana Maria Zetty
Fermentation scientist

Dr. Maria Cuellar-Soares
Chief Science Officer (CSO)

Dr. Jordan Radek
Fermentation lead

Pepijn Vloemans
Head of communication & public affairs

Adnan Oner
Founder & Fermer-in-Chief

Martin Schreiber
Food Application Specialist

Giuliana Unger
Finance & Operations lead

Ivana Mik
Food Application Specialist

Mark Philip
Downstream Processing Engineer

Bálint Magyar
Principal Software Engineer
Our advisors
Dr. Nico Claassens
Wageningen University
Expert in efficient microbial protein pathways and metabolic engineering.
Nigel Baldwin
Expert on regulatory strategy. Worked on >80 food ingredient approvals.
Dr. Carel Smit
Director of IP at Formo
Expert on IP strategy.
Dr. Julia Keppler
Wageningen University
Expertise in functional properties of food.
Dr. Ron Shigeta
Co-founder IndieBio.
Gregory M. Bernstein
Expertise on funding strategy and go-to market.
Marian Barber
Scaled and commercialised breakthrough innovations at Beyond Meat, Perfect Day, Amyris and Ginkgo Bioworks.
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“Embrace what may be the most important green technology ever. It could save us all.”George Monbiot, The Guardian
"With its planet-friendly protein, Farmless wants to dramatically outperform animal agriculture."Techcrunch
"Farmless believes they can use the world’s tiniest creatures to outperform big ag"Footprint Coalition