Sara Ikonen
COO at NPHarvest
NPHarvest
Espoo, Finland
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Making your shit an asset
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NPHarvest, a spinout from Aalto University, is reducing reliance on imported nutrients with their patented technology. NPHarvest grows the net value of wastewater by recovering up to 90% of nitrogen an phosphorous nutrients from wastewaters and recycling them back to use as fertilizers. This creates cost savings and a positive environmental impact for wastewater treatment facilities, biogas plants, and animal farms. Today, NPHarvest has built its first industrial scale demo with €2.2M funding raised from industry-leading investors such as Nordic Foodtech VC and the Finnish Ministry of the Environment. NPHarvest’s team has also won numerous awards for their groundbreaking work, including four awards for the academic research, and several pitching awards such as "EIT Food Test Farms 2025", “Save the Baltic Sea 2025” and European Biomethane Week’s “Inspiration Challenge 2024”. Read more: npharvest.fi