Founder · Arboreal Bioinnovations

Manish Chauhan

Co-founder & COO of Arboreal Bioinnovations, a specialty food ingredients company based in Lucknow.

Co-founder · COOLucknowSpecialty Food Ingredients
Founded
2018
Lucknow, India
Raised to date
$27.9M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
Series A
$24M · Jul 2026

About

Manish Chauhan is Co-founder & COO of Arboreal Bioinnovations, a specialty food ingredients company based in Lucknow, founded in 2018. Arboreal Bioinnovations's most recent disclosed round was a funding round of $24M in Jul 2026.

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Company

Est. 2018
Arboreal Bioinnovations
Specialty Food Ingredients · Lucknow · Active

Arboreal Bioinnovations is a Lucknow-based specialty food and nutraceutical ingredients company. It runs a vertically integrated stevia operation spanning cultivation with smallholder farmers, extraction, refining and formulation, and has since extended into next-generation proteins, cocoa ingredients, natural zero-calorie sweeteners and functional fibres for food, beverage and CPG brands.

Funding
Jul 2026Series A$24MEAAA Alternatives, Omnivore, Rainmatter by Zerodha
Mar 2024Seed$1.2MNot disclosed
Nov 2023Seed$2.7MNarotam Sekhsaria Family Office, BIRAC, Rainmatter, Madhurima International
Company profile →3 rounds on record

Journey with Arboreal Bioinnovations

4 milestones
  1. 2015Milestone

    Arboreal begins as a social-venture concept presented at a sustainability programme at Imperial College London, three years before the company was incorporated.

  2. May 2018Founded

    Arboreal Bioinnovations incorporated by Swati Pandey and Manish Chauhan to build a vertically integrated stevia value chain in India.

  3. Feb 2022Milestone

    Arboreal wins the National Startup Award 2021 in the food processing category.

  4. Jul 2026Milestone

    Arboreal becomes the first investment from Edelweiss Alternatives' second Discovery Fund, which closed at over ₹1,200 crore.

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Coverage

1 story
Funding · 30 Jul 2026 · 5 min read
Arboreal Bioinnovations Raises ₹230 Crore Series A Co-Led by EAAA and Omnivore to Add Capacity