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NC State Spinout Company Seeks to Spark Innovation, Fight Food Waste

SinnovaTek — a company co-founded by an NC State professor and one of his former students — now helps small-scale entrepreneurs get products to market while curbing food waste from farms.

Researchers developing food samples in a lab

When food science professor Josip Simunovic applied to the Chancellor’s Innovation Fund, he wanted to build a machine. A machine that would allow other inventors like himself to get new products to market faster — and at a fraction of the cost. 

SinnovaTek, a company he co-founded, has now helped bring more than 100 new FDA-approved products to market.