Amai Proteins

Amai Proteins is an Israeli food-tech biotechnology company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Rehovot, Israel. The company uses computational protein design, precision fermentation, and food technology to develop novel sweet proteins for the mass food market. Its flagship product, sweelin®, is a next-generation sweet protein derived from the serendipity berry and produced through a natural fermentation process. sweelin® is thousands of times sweeter than sugar, enables 40–70% sugar reduction in food and beverage products, and delivers a clean taste profile with low environmental impact. It is digested like a normal protein with no adverse metabolic interactions. sweelin® has received FDA GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) approval in the United States and food additive approval from Singapore's Food Agency. Amai's multidisciplinary team combines expertise in computational biophysics, cloud computing, bioinformatics, and food science. The company has partnerships and collaborations with PepsiCo, Danone, Ocean Spray, and academic institutions including Stanford and UCSF.