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Turning Food Industry By-Products into Sustainable Animal Feed
KLAREVA is developing a modular, fully automated technology for growing the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens)— a sustainable, high-quality protein source for animal feed. Our goal is to replace soy in feed for pigs, poultry, fish and pets with a locally produced, circular alternative that reduces land use, emissions and

Forest, soil, and biodiversity accelerator
At the end of 2024, KLAREVA joined the Forest, Soil, and Biodiversity Accelerator that is run by the Tartu Science Park. The goal of the programme is to support the development of innovative green technologies, focusing on solving challenges in forestry, soil and biodiversity. The program aims to develop scalable and sustainable

Tartu Culinary Region
Tartu is known as the intellectual capital of Estonia. It houses several universities, including the University of Life Sciences, where KLAREVA has its laboratory. As part of promoting bio diversity as well as innovation in feed and food, the region’s promotional authority interviewed KLAREVA about its ongoing research and goals

Pumpkin spiced BSF
In October and November we processed pumpkin shells and hearts into substrate. We fed that to BSF. Although the substrate looked very wet, it was not room temperature, the granularity seemed too big and nutritionally questionable, the results were excellent. At the end of the rearing period the larvae had

Hey mom! We’re famous:)
An article published in Maaleht on November 6, 2025, featured KLAREVA’s work to develop an automated black soldier fly production system in Estonia. The piece highlighted our goal to turn food industry by-products into a valuable source of high-quality protein for poultry, fish, and pig feed—reducing dependence on imported soy

The Team behind KLAREVA
KLAREVA was founded as a company in 2023 by four distinguished gentlemen: Rihard Reissar, MSc. He’s responsible for Applied Biology, BSF production technology development. Merko Vaga, Ph.D. In charge of animal science, food security, feed science, agricultural production. Mart Maasik. Expert on innovation management and deep tech business builder. Leads business innovation, strategic partnerships and