What Thorvin does

Thorvin is a privately held, for-profit company founded in 1983 and headquartered in New Castle, United States, that supplies certified organic Icelandic kelp for three end markets: human nutrition, animal nutrition, and plant nutrition. Its product surface is concentrated in a single underlying input — Icelandic kelp — qualified by organic certification, with applications spanning dietary supplements, livestock feed additives, and agricultural soil/foliar inputs.

The company operates at a micro-enterprise scale, with between 1 and 10 employees according to disclosed firmographic data. Its website (thorvin.com) is the principal public-facing channel; during data collection, the site returned a verification loader rather than substantive product or pricing content, and no detailed product catalog, pricing model, certifications list, or distribution channel breakdown was available from the source material. No management team, partnerships, awards, patents, or third-party endorsements were disclosed in the inputs.

Thorvin's business model appears to be straightforward product sales of a specialty agricultural input under an organic-certified brand, with no disclosed revenue figure, no funding history, and no parent company or subsidiary structure indicated. The longevity of operations (over 40 years) and the breadth of its three end markets suggest a stable, niche-positioned supplier rather than a venture-backed growth business. All enrichment fields beyond firmographics (revenue, ownership, technology stack, customer logos, partnerships, leadership) are empty in the source data, which constrains any deeper financial or strategic assessment.

Name

Thorvin

Website

https://thorvin.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1983

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Thorvin is a privately held U.S. company, founded in 1983 and based in New Castle, that supplies certified organic Icelandic kelp for human nutrition, animal nutrition, and plant nutrition markets. It operates at micro-enterprise scale (1-10 employees).

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Organic Nutritional & Agricultural Ingredients

NAICS

Other Animal Food Manufacturing (311119), Animal Food Manufacturing (3111), Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers (42491)

SIC

Wholesale-Farm Product Raw Materials (5150), Agricultural Prod-Livestock & Animal Specialties (200)

akta.pro primary industry

Organic Micro-Ingredients & Supplements (Kelp, Herbs, Oils) (AFADAJAK)

akta.pro secondary industry

Organic Aquaculture Feed (AFADAJAD)

Keywords

• Organic kelp products
• Icelandic kelp ingredients
• Animal nutrition supplements
• Plant nutrition inputs
• Human nutritional supplements

Headquarters

HQ city

New Castle

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Thorvin produces and sells certified organic Icelandic kelp intended for three end-use segments: human nutrition (supplements), animal nutrition (livestock/pet feed inputs), and plant nutrition (agricultural/fertilizer inputs). The company sources Icelandic kelp and supplies it as a finished ingredient/product for downstream manufacturers and end users in those three verticals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Seagreens: Irish wild seaweed company harvesting cold-water kelp for human food supplements and animal/plant nutrition uses. Direct match to Thorvin's product profile and geographic sourcing model.
• Cascadia Seaweed: Canadian cultivator and processor of kelp and other seaweeds for food, agricultural, and animal-feed applications. Comparable in multi-vertical kelp utilization across plant and animal nutrition channels.
• Atlantic Sea Farms: US-based kelp/seaweed company producing sustainable kelp products for food and ingredient markets. Directly comparable as a vertically integrated kelp producer serving human-nutrition channels, although Thorvin additionally serves animal and plant nutrition.
• Mara Seaweed: UK/Scottish seaweed brand producing kelp-based food and nutritional products from cold North Atlantic waters. Closely comparable to Thorvin in cold-water kelp sourcing and human-nutrition positioning.
• Maine Coast Sea Vegetables: US-based seaweed harvester and processor selling kelp and other seaweeds for human consumption. Comparable cold-water wild-harvested seaweed product offering, though Thorvin extends further into animal and plant nutrition.
• Ocean Harvest Technology: Irish company producing seaweed-based feed ingredients for the animal nutrition industry. Highly comparable on the animal-nutrition leg of Thorvin's offering.
• Kelpak: South Africa-based producer of kelp extract products specifically used as agricultural biostimulants and plant-nutrition inputs. Directly comparable to Thorvin's plant-nutrition application of kelp.

Broad incumbents

• Acadian Seaplants: Canada's largest commercial seaweed company producing cultivated and wild-harvested seaweeds for food, agricultural, and animal-feed markets globally. Comparable broad portfolio but operates at significantly larger scale than Thorvin's specialty Icelandic kelp focus.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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