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We are honored that Sweethoven Biotech was featured in the recent ZDF documentary “Zuckeralternativen – Genuss mit Beigeschmack”, broadcast on May 25, 2025. We sincerely thank the ZDF editorial team for including our vision of sweet-tasting dietary fibers as part of the public conversation on healthier sugar alternatives. The documentary presented a valuable overview of […]

Sweet Victory for Sweethoven Biotech at Germany’s Leading Biotech Networking Event Our start-up project Sweethoven Biotech had the honor of being part of Germany’s premier biotech networking event – and we’re beyond excited to share that we returned with not one, but two incredible awards: 🏆 Innovation Award 2025 of the BioRegions Germany🎤 Audience Award

As alumni of the EIT Food Seedbed Incubator 2023, we were honored to showcase our sweet and healthy fibers at our own booth at Next Bite 2024. The EIT event, which took place in the spectacular venue “la nuvola”, allowed us to connect with key companies, stakeholders and investors in the food ecosystem. We exclusively

On September 27th our team pitched in front of an expert jury at the highly prestigious BioRiver Boost! Pitch Contest. The jury of representatives from prestigious companies such as Bayer, Lonza, Qiagen, HTGF, Johnson&Johnson and Miltenyi recognized the great potential of our fibre-based sugar alternatives and catapulted us onto the winners’ podium with 3rd place.

BIG NEWS!!! Our project wins the 1st place in the “Bio-Gründer Wettbewerb 2024” hosted by Bio-Security. Dr. André Neff was able to convince the judges in his pitch of the health-promoting properties and sustainable character of our fiber-based sugar alternative! First place is endowed with prize money of 4,000 euros, part of which will be

Prominent visit by Ye-One Rhie, Member of the German Bundestag and Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment. During her visit, Ms. Rhie was impressed by the benefits of our fibre-based sugar alternative, including the taste, of course!

Using 178,000 € from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research our team will develop a state of the art process for the chromatographic purification of our sweet dietary fiber. Upscale of this process will provide about 25 kg of our healthy sugar alternative for application studies.

An outstanding pitch from Marcel secures one of the highly coveted places on the winners’ podium at the DATIpilot Roadshow in Essen. This success will grant our project a 12 – 18 month fund from the Federal Ministry for Education and Research, enabling upscale of our biotechnological process.

Our project secures a prototyping grant over 46,600 €, hosted by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Action and Energy (NRW). The grant will be utilized to produce kg-quantities of our healthy sugar subsitute.

Our idea of making a healthier sugar alternative accessible with our sweet-tasting dietary fiber wins the University of Bonn’s ideas competition.