Nattopharma ASA

Name

Nattopharma ASA

Legal name

Nattopharma ASA

Website

https://nattopharma.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Nattopharma ASA was a Norwegian public limited company that researched dietary supplements, functional foods, and beverages. Founded in 2004 in Oslo, it was delisted and its website is now inactive, indicating it no longer operates as an independent entity.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nutraceutical Research Services

NAICS

Scientific Research and Development Services (5417)

SIC

Services-Testing Laboratories (8734), Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731), Food And Kindred Products (2000)

akta.pro primary industry

Health & Wellness (Vitamins, Supplements, OTC) DTC (CRAFACAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Dietary/Functional Claim Substantiation (e.g., high-protein, low-sugar, keto, low-FODMAP) (AFALAHAE), Functional Shot Production (Wellness/Immunity/Focus Shots) (AFAFAFAI)

Keywords

• Dietary supplement research
• Functional food development
• Nutraceutical formulation
• Beverage ingredient research
• Food science research

Headquarters

HQ city

Oslo

HQ country

Norway

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Nattopharma ASA helps research dietary supplements, functional foods, and beverages. The company provides research services aimed at developing formulations and ingredient applications for manufacturers operating in the nutraceutical and functional food sectors. Its work is positioned as a B2B research offering rather than a consumer-facing product.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Dietary supplement, functional food, and beverage research services

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• dsm-firmenich: dsm-firmenich (formerly DSM Nutritional Products) is one of the world's largest suppliers of vitamins, carotenoids, and functional food ingredients. It is a broad incumbent peer given Nattopharma's positioning in the vitamins and dietary-supplement ingredient supply chain.
• ADM Nutrition: ADM's Nutrition segment is a large-scale supplier of plant-based proteins, flavors, and functional ingredients to food, beverage, and supplement manufacturers. It is comparable to Nattopharma as a broad incumbent operating across the same downstream functional-food and beverage customer base.
• Lonza Capsules & Health Ingredients: Lonza is a global contract development and manufacturing organization supplying nutritional ingredients and dosage-form solutions to supplement and functional-food brands. It is comparable as a broad incumbent in the research-and-supply chain where Nattopharma participated.
• Glanbia Nutritionals: Glanbia Nutritionals supplies premix and ingredient solutions to the global nutrition industry, including functional-food, beverage, and supplement manufacturers. It is comparable to Nattopharma as a broad incumbent serving the same downstream customers with formulated nutrition solutions.
• Frutarom (now IFF Health & Bioscience): Frutarom, now part of International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), supplied natural functional ingredients and flavors to the food, beverage, and nutraceutical industries. It is a broad incumbent peer overlapping with Nattopharma's functional-food and beverage ingredient focus.
• Balchem Corporation: Balchem is a US-listed specialty ingredient company whose Human Nutrition & Health segment includes nutritional ingredient offerings (and which has historically been associated with the K2 ingredient category through its acquisition activity). It is comparable as a broad incumbent in the functional-nutrition ingredient space where Nattopharma operated.

Others

• Novozymes (Novonesis): Novonesis (the combined Novozymes and Chr. Hansen) provides fermentation-based enzymes and microbial ingredients used by nutrition and supplement producers. It is an enabling/ecosystem participant comparable to Nattopharma's underlying fermentation-driven production of Vitamin K2 ingredients.

Emerging players

• NutraBio Labs: NutraBio is a US-based dietary supplement manufacturer that uses branded specialty ingredients (including vitamin K2) in its finished supplement products. It is comparable as an emerging downstream buyer of K2 and other specialty nutritional ingredients in the same supply chain as Nattopharma.

Direct peers

• Gnosis by Lesaffre: Gnosis by Lesaffre is a major global supplier of fermented nutritional ingredients including Vitamin K2 (MK-7) under its MenaQ7-aligned product range. It is directly comparable to Nattopharma as a B2B supplier of branded K2 and other fermented vitamin ingredients to supplement and functional-food manufacturers.
• Kappa Bioscience: Kappa Bioscience is a Norwegian Vitamin K2 (MK-7) ingredient manufacturer and the most direct peer to Nattopharma ASA, having historically operated in the same MenaQ7 / Vitamin K2 category for dietary supplements and functional foods. The two companies shared overlapping customer bases in the global supplement industry.

Market position

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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