Climax Foods, a food tech company developing plant-based dairy products, has partnered with Benchling, a data management platform, to leverage data science and machine learning (ML) for creating plant-based foods.

Climax Foods will leverage Benchling's platform to model and prototype plant-based cheese recipes, analyzing various properties such as flavor, texture, and sustainability. 

The collaboration also provides a centralized platform for data management, scalability, and consistent ontology, facilitating the company's data-driven operations and ML efforts to streamline its R&D processes and create better plant-based cheese products.

Analyst QuickTake: Climax Foods is at the forefront of using AI/ML capabilities for developing plant-based alternatives. Its deep plant intelligence platform uses ML frameworks to gather molecular-level information about animal products, combining it with a proprietary plant ingredient functionality database to select optimized plant combinations and develop products.