Allergen Alert raises €3.6 million to accelerate the roadmap of its rapid allergen and gluten detection solution for consumers and professionals
Lyon, October 14, 2025 – ALLERGEN ALERT, a French Deeptech startup, designs and manufactures an innovative solution for the rapid detection of food allergens and gluten, dedicated to people living with food allergies. The company has just completed a €3.6 million fundraising round with Demeter, through the Fonds d’Amorçage Industriel Métropolitain (FAIM) Lyon/Saint-Étienne, and bioMérieux, also supported by a banking pool including Bpifrance and private banks.
The creation of Allergen Alert is deeply rooted in the personal story of its founder and CEO, Bénédicte Astier. In 2022, after her daughter suffered a severe anaphylactic shock caused by a food allergy, Bénédicte began an intrapreneurship initiative within bioMérieux. Her idea: to miniaturize a bioMérieux technology used for detecting viruses and bacteria, and apply it to food allergen detection directly in meals.
bioMérieux played a key role by granting Allergen Alert an exclusive license for the technology — the result of several years of R&D — transferring industrial assets (including a manufacturing line), and financing the project with the collaboration of 2 persons in R&D.