Partner With Us
One platform. Three fronts to move it forward.
Persea Vitalis is in Bioenterprise's GOAH mentorship programme and seeks advisory and partnership support on three fronts — research & pilot, the three-path regulatory strategy and non-dilutive funding, and SeedCircle supply. Each path has a specific intake, a specific ask, and a direct line to the founder.
Run the in-vivo assay that advances all three products at once.
A postharvest in-vivo assay on harvested fruit completes in weeks — not a season-long crop — and can run all three product arms on shared fruit lots. It advances PhytoGuard™'s lead citrus claim (the PMRA anchor) and seeds the FreshGuard™ and VitaFilm™ application data. We are seeking the named site and principal investigator, with Mitacs Accelerate and OAFRI compatibility built in.
Research Partners
Postharvest & food-science labs. A named PI.
Seeking a Canadian postharvest / food-science lab and principal investigator to host the shared in-vivo assay, plus analytical support for extraction standardisation and lot-release. Designs use harvested fruit under controlled storage, so each arm completes in weeks.
Why Partner on Research
Co-authorship and the reference dataset.
The outputs anchor the PMRA biopesticide pre-submission for PhytoGuard™ and the food-additive / food-contact data for FreshGuard™ and VitaFilm™ — and become the reference dataset for any future avocado-seed postharvest application. Co-authorship and dataset access are part of the conversation.
Use of funds
- Postharvest in-vivo assay — all three product arms on shared fruit lots
- Extract standardisation and lot-release method development
- Analytical support: total polyphenols, marker compounds, persin specification
- Manuscript preparation and the reference dataset
Three regulators, three speeds — and a non-dilutive stack.
Classification follows the claim, not the material: FreshGuard™ is a Health Canada food additive, VitaFilm™ a food-contact material cleared by a Letter of No Objection, and PhytoGuard™ a PMRA biopesticide (~18–24 months). Two of the three products legitimately sit outside the PMRA. We seek regulatory consultants across the three paths and advisors to sequence the non-dilutive funding stack.
Regulatory Partners
Food-additive, food-contact & PMRA biopesticide consultants.
Seeking consultants to advance the three regulatory paths in parallel — the fast food-grade routes that carry revenue, and the PMRA biopesticide registration that builds the moat behind them.
PMRA Pre-Submission
No-cost consultation confirms the data package.
Seeking a consultant with PMRA biochemical-pesticide experience to validate the no-cost pre-submission package (Form 6117), confirm pathway eligibility and the reduced data table, advise on Tier I health-data waivers supported by the food-use origin, and assess Section 18 emergency-use feasibility and US-EPA harmonisation.
Funding & Advisory
Non-dilutive first; first revenue funds the moat.
Persea Vitalis has secured Bioenterprise GOAH mentorship (25 hours, advisory, no funding) and seeks support sequencing a non-dilutive stack — NRC IRAP, Mitacs, SR&ED, Natural Products Canada, OAFRI / Sustainable CAP, OCI vouchers and FedDev SOFII. First revenue arrives on FreshGuard™ within months, so the capital to reach the PhytoGuard™ pre-submission is modest and partly self-funded.
Funding Stack
A non-dilutive path to first revenue.
The food-grade-first design means no equity round is required before first revenue. We are sequencing the grant stack and seeking advisory support on the three-path regulatory strategy and postharvest go-to-market.
Use of funds
- Postharvest in-vivo assay (TRL 3→4) — all three product arms
- First SeedCircle diversion agreement and cold-chain setup
- Three-path regulatory work — food-additive filing, food-contact LNO, PMRA Form 6117
- GFSI-certified pilot production and per-lot standardisation
Waste-diversion agreements with GTA Tier-1 food-service processors.
SeedCircle is the supply chain architecture that makes all three products commercially viable. The SeedCircle partner relationship is a waste-diversion agreement, not a raw-material supply contract — zero or negative commodity cost, mutual ESG credentials, and administratively simpler than procurement.
Processor Partners
GTA Tier-1 processors generating avocado-seed waste.
Ontario's Tier-1 food-service processors landfill large volumes of avocado seed at zero value — indicatively tens of thousands of kg per month across GTA Tier 1–3. Persea Vitalis is formalising waste-diversion agreements with batch segregation, full lot traceability, and cold-chain discipline. Pilot scale requires well under 3% of available GTA supply across all three products combined.
ESG & Circular Economy Partners
Chain-of-custody documentation. Certified circular-economy provenance.
Each SeedCircle batch carries a chain-of-custody document set: the processor waste-diversion agreement; the batch collection log; the processing log; the standardisation certificate of analysis (total polyphenols, marker compounds, persin spec, microbial limits); and the delivery record. This documentation supports both PMRA product-chemistry identity requirements and third-party ESG certification — and is the same documentation GFSI-certified buyers already require.
Platform Economics
One supply chain. Two streams. Three products. Marginal cost.
The SeedCircle infrastructure is a shared platform asset. One diversion agreement, one cold chain and one extraction line serve all three products, and the starch an extract-only business would landfill becomes VitaFilm™. The combined demand of all three lines strengthens the business case for each diversion agreement and the unit economics of the whole platform.