🇫🇮 NPHarvest selected for Business Finland Deep Tech Accelerator with €1.2 million funding pathway to advance nutrient recovery

Helsinki, Finland (January 20th, 2026) — NPHarvest, a Finnish cleantech company developing fertilizer inputs from liquid waste streams, has been selected for up to €1.2 million in funding from Business Finland, the country’s public organisation for innovation funding and international growth. The funding, awarded under Business Finland’s Deep Tech Accelerator call, will support the phased commercialization of NPHarvest’s nutrient recovery technology. It builds on recent technical progress and earlier public and private backing.

The funding is part of Business Finland’s Deep Tech Accelerator (DTA), which supports a selective cohort of research-driven companies as they scale internationally, based on technical depth and readiness for global commercialisation. The funding is structured in three phases tied to technical and commercial milestones, supporting the continued development and scale-up of NPHarvest’s nutrient recovery technology. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}

NPHarvest addresses a growing bottleneck in Europe’s waste-to-energy and agricultural systems, where increasing volumes of nutrient-rich liquid digestate are generated and constrained by tightening EU limits on nitrogen application. The company’s technology focuses on recovering nutrients directly from these liquid waste streams and converting them into usable fertilizer inputs, enabling nutrient recovery to move beyond pilot projects toward repeatable deployment for agricultural and industrial use. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}

“In Europe, the limiting factor in fertilizer production is no longer nutrient availability, but how and where those nutrients can be recovered and reused,” said Juho Uzkurt Kaljunen, CEO of NPHarvest. “Large volumes already exist in liquid waste streams generated by waste-to-energy plants, yet current systems struggle to convert them into inputs that can be used where they’re permitted and needed. This funding allows us to translate that constraint into repeatable, scalable deployments.” :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2}

The Business Finland Deep Tech Accelerator funds build on €2.2 million in previous funding from industry-leading investors, including Nordic Foodtech VC and the Finnish Ministry of the Environment, and follows a year of technical progress: throughout 2025, NPHarvest achieved significant milestones built on earlier research conducted at Aalto University, including the launch of its first industrial-scale demonstrator nutrient recovery unit at a waste-to-energy plant in Ankara, Türkiye. Additionally, field trials with the University of Helsinki’s Viikki research farm showed that NPHarvest’s recycled nitrogen and phosphorus perform on par with conventional synthetic fertilizers. :contentReference[oaicite:3]{index=3}

With Deep Tech Accelerator funding in place, NPHarvest will continue advancing its nutrient recovery technology while preparing for full-scale commercialization and broader deployment, focusing on translating validated technical performance into repeatable, scalable systems for agricultural and industrial markets. :contentReference[oaicite:4]{index=4}

Originally published on 20 January 2026 by NPHarvest.

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