AKA Foods Ltd. has recently completed a significant $17.2 million seed funding round, led by prominent AI experts and entrepreneurs Alex and Michael Bronstein. This funding marks the official launch of AKA Studio, a secure AI system and proprietary platform designed to revolutionize the way food companies create, optimize, and launch products. The platform aims to make the process faster, smarter, and more affordable by consolidating a company’s R&D data, ingredient specifications, sensory feedback, and regulatory documentation into a unified system.
For research and development teams, AKA Studio shortens the innovation cycle from years to weeks by integrating historical and ongoing R&D data, ingredient specifications, sensory feedback, and regulatory documentation into a unified, intelligent framework. This integration transforms organizational knowledge into measurable innovation assets that improve productivity and profitability for business leaders. For investors, it represents a defensible, category-defining technology at the intersection of AI and food science, augmented by sensory evaluation.
The platform supports reformulation for clean labels, reduced sugar and fat content, and more resilient supply chains. Security and confidentiality are central to the system’s design, with AKA Studio operating as a secure SaaS platform managed by AKA Foods. Client data is never shared or used for model training, ensuring that clients retain full ownership and control of their proprietary information.
Professor Alex Bronstein, Chief Scientist at AKA Foods and Head of the Center for Intelligent Systems at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, highlighted the unique capabilities of AKA Studio. He explained that the platform creates a new type of grammar or language for food, enabling AI agents to connect to different external data sources and make recommendations on how to improve recipes. This level of specificity and precision is something that generic AI models like ChatGPT cannot achieve.
David Sack, Founder and CEO of AKA Foods, emphasized the potential of AKA Studio to capture, organize, and apply valuable knowledge securely. The investment will allow the company to expand deployment to enterprise clients worldwide and continue advancing the science behind how food is created.
The implications for agritech and investors are significant. AKA Studio’s underlying sensory-AI framework has the potential for future applications in flavour, fragrance, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals, where sensory evaluation and precision formulation are equally critical. By establishing a new standard for secure, data-driven food innovation, AKA Studio provides a shared pathway to measurable progress in both science and business performance. This technology not only accelerates the formulation process but also enhances decision quality, making it a valuable tool for companies looking to innovate and stay competitive in the market.