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Time-travelling Milkman
https://www.timetravellingmilkman.com/Last activity: 31.10.2025
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Dairy alternatives are not as appealing as dairy products largely due the unavailability of a stable fat ingredient. Time-travelling Milkman (TTM) is a B2B company that will produce and sell stable plant-based fat ingredients for sustainable and appetizing dairy alternatives.
TTM is taking inspiration from solutions provided by Nature. It has been greatly overlooked that inside plant seeds, fats are organised in naturally occurring fat droplets, called Oleosomes. Oleosome fat droplets are the ideal milk fat equivalent due to the following reasons :
• A very compact half-membrane makes Oleosomes droplets as stable as milk fat droplets.
• Oleosomes have shown a high potential as milk fat equivalents for creamy and tasty dairy alternatives.
• Oleosome fat droplets are healthy ingredients and can be produced from European seeds without solvents.
The primary objective of TTM will be to investigate how can the noteworthy qualities of Oleosome fat droplets be successfully conveyed to dairy alternatives.
TTM is taking inspiration from solutions provided by Nature. It has been greatly overlooked that inside plant seeds, fats are organised in naturally occurring fat droplets, called Oleosomes. Oleosome fat droplets are the ideal milk fat equivalent due to the following reasons :
• A very compact half-membrane makes Oleosomes droplets as stable as milk fat droplets.
• Oleosomes have shown a high potential as milk fat equivalents for creamy and tasty dairy alternatives.
• Oleosome fat droplets are healthy ingredients and can be produced from European seeds without solvents.
The primary objective of TTM will be to investigate how can the noteworthy qualities of Oleosome fat droplets be successfully conveyed to dairy alternatives.
Location: Netherlands
Employees: 1-10
Total raised: $3.91M
Founded date: 2020
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| 14.07.2021 | SHIFT Inve... | shiftinves... |
Funding Rounds 3
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 19.09.2025 | Seed | $2.34M | Sparkalis |
| 04.04.2024 | - | $923.95K | - |
| 06.07.2021 | - | $651.21K | - |
Mentions in press and media 30
| Date | Title | Description |
| 31.10.2025 | Fi Europe Announces Finalists of 2025 Innovation Awards | Food ingredients trade show Fi Europe has announced the finalists of its 2025 Innovation Awards. This year’s awards saw a record number of submissions at 177, and 23 of these have been selected as finalists. By category, they are: Dairy Alt... |
| 19.09.2025 | CEE Startup & Tech Weekly: New €500M Fund, SEON’s Over €67M Raise, and DRUID AI’s Global Push | Central and Eastern Europe ~ Company: The Recursive’s weekly roundup aims to cover key tech developments across Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the growing impact of CEE-born founders on the global stage. Take a look at the latest ne... |
| 19.09.2025 | Time-Travelling Milkman Secures €2M for Sunflower-Based Ingredient That Replicates Functionality of Dairy Fat | Dutch company Time-Travelling Milkman (TTM) has raised €2 million in pre-Series A funding to accelerate the commercial adoption of its flagship creaminess solution, Oleocream. Two new investors participated in the round — Sparkalis, the ven... |
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