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.