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Panos Kostopoulos

Proxy Foods
Proxy Foods
2025
Year Selected

Washington DC, USA / Athens, Greece
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Designing the Recipes of the Future

Panos Kostopoulos is the Founder & CEO of Proxy Foods, an AI platform that optimizes recipe formulation and accelerates product innovation for the food-and-beverage industry (F&B). For more than a decade, he has worked across food tech and biotechnology, guiding work from field and lab to market.

Panos holds graduate degrees in chemical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and in biotechnology from Georgetown University, with a focus on food and entrepreneurship. He has also co-founded and directs Cell Ag Greece and the Network of Cellular Agriculture (NCA) - nonprofit organizations that advance research and foster collaboration between academia and industry in cellular agriculture and food tech.

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Proxy FoodsFounder & CEO at Proxy Foods

Year Founded

2022

Year Selected

2025

Stage

Seed

Team Size

21-50

Total Capital Raised

$6,000,000

Food & Beverage

CPG & Manufacturing

Food Retailers

Restaurants

Delivery & Platforms