We built Karmic to fix the leaks, not chase more production.

The world’s food system loses value every year between farm and shelf — to disease, pests, spoilage, short shelf life and broken cold chains. The instinct is always to fix that by producing more. That doesn’t work; it just means more inputs, more capital, and more biological risk.

Karmic takes shrimp processing waste — half of every animal, today paid to landfill — and turns it into chitosan-based inputs that reduce crop loss, extend shelf life, and replace petrochemicals across the food chain. The waste from one industry boosts output in another.

Why now?

Margin compression

Rising input costs and retail price pressure are squeezing food companies from every side

Regulatory pressure

Waste targets, plastic bans and EPR mandates are forcing change, not inviting it

Supply chain disruption

Geopolitical shocks have exposed single-source petrochemical dependencies

Policy tailwinds

Vision 2030 and the EU Green Deal are actively unlocking capital for this shift

Team

Kristin Veriga

CEO & Founder
30 years of growth and scaling expertise, including 13 years in seafood. ASC Board Trustee and Chair of the Strategy & Policy Committee.

Dr Pedram Dehdari

CSO & Co-Founder
A leading voice in chitosan application, with 25 years of deep formulation expertise across 200 projects in 70 countries.

Flavio Corsin

Advisor
Former Aqua Spark, former GSSI Board, former IDH.

Willem van der Pijl

Advisor
CEO of Shrimp Insights, Managing Director of the Global Shrimp Forum.