NPHarvest Selected for Business Finland Deep Tech Accelerator with €1.2M Funding Pathway to Advance Nutrient Recovery

NPHarvest, a Finnish cleantech company developing fertilizer inputs from liquid waste streams, led by Dr. Juho Uzkurt Kaljunen, Sara Ikonen, Federico Varalta, Burak Yirmibesoglu, and Eero Petäjä, has been selected for up to €1.2 million in funding, structured in three phases tied to technical and commercial milestones, supporting the continued development and scale-up of NPHarvest’s nutrient recovery technology from Business Finland, the country’s public organisation for innovation funding and international growth. 

Growth in Europe’s organic waste-to-energy sector has led to nutrient overload, with EU nitrogen limits forcing costly long-distance transport of liquid digestate.

NPHarvest recovers nutrients from liquid waste and converts them into usable fertilizer inputs, offering a scalable solution for major waste-to-energy and fertilizer markets.

In Europe, fertilizer production is increasingly constrained by nutrient recovery and reuse rather than availability, with large volumes locked in liquid waste streams from waste-to-energy plants. The funding supports scalable deployments that convert these nutrients into usable fertilizer inputs where they are permitted and needed.

The Business Finland Deep Tech Accelerator funding builds on €2.2 million in prior backing from investors, including Nordic Foodtech VC and the Finnish Ministry of the Environment, following a year of major technical progress.

In 2025, NPHarvest launched its first industrial-scale nutrient recovery demonstrator at a waste-to-energy plant in Ankara and validated performance through field trials showing recycled nutrients match conventional fertilizers. The new funding supports continued technology development and preparation for scalable commercialization across agricultural and industrial markets.