Ricardo Carvalho is an entrepreneur focused on helping small companies to scale up their operations after proof of concept is concluded. He leverages his management consulting expertise in several businesses in diferent sectors and networking in a value proposition to its target investments that goes beyond the typical capital investment. NProtein is a company focused in isolating plant-based protein and exploiting its commercial value. The core team has been leading those matters for more than 30 years in one of the most relevant universities in Portugal (Instituto Superior de Agronomia). The company was granted several patents and has several options in its portfolio in diferent stages and one of them was awarded with an EIT grant. The project goal is to demonstrate that NProtein is able to remove or even eliminate the allergenic character of legume seeds proteins following a GRAS procedure without using chemical solvents. In case of success the market potential is huge as there is a growing incidence of food allergies and plant-based diets need to overcome that obstacle in order to have an even more appealing value proposition vs alternatives.