Ynsect

aid: ynsect
name: Ynsect
description: 'Ÿnsect (Ÿnsect SAS) was a French agri-technology company, founded in Évry, Essonne on 4 October 2011 by Antoine
  Hubert, Jean-Gabriel Levon, Fabrice Berro and Alexis Angot, that farmed Tenebrio molitor mealworms and Alphitobius diaperinus
  buffalo larvae in automated vertical farms and processed them into high-protein ingredients for aquaculture and animal feed,
  the Spryng pet-food line, food-grade ingredients for human nutrition, and the Ynfrass organic fertiliser made from insect
  frass. It was for a time the best-funded insect-protein company in the world, raising roughly €600 million over fourteen
  years, including a €372 million Series C in 2020 and a further €160 million in early 2023, and it operated sites at Dole
  and Damparis in the Jura while building the Ynfarm vertical farm at Poulainville near Amiens. The economics never closed:
  Ÿnsect requested safeguard proceedings on 26 September 2024, was placed in judicial reorganisation on 3 March 2025, and
  — unable to fund a continuation plan within the observation period — was placed in judicial liquidation on 1 December 2025.
  The Damparis site was taken over in 2025 by Keprea, a separate company founded by Ÿnsect alumni, to make fertiliser from
  insect frass; Keprea is not a successor to Ÿnsect and its surfaces are not part of this profile. Ÿnsect was an industrial
  producer of physical goods and never operated a developer program, public API, SDK, webhook surface or machine-readable
  specification of any kind. Its host ynsect.com is still registered to the company but the web origin has been switched off
  — TCP 80 and 443 refuse connections — and ynsect.fr is a bare OVH redirect to that dead host, so no pointer to a live company
  website is wired. This profile is retained as a historical record; there is no API surface to enrich.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ynsect/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-harvest-source-url: https://forgeglobal.com/ynsect_stock/
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-founded: '2011-10-04'
x-shutdown-date: '2025-12-01'
x-shutdown-note: Placed in judicial liquidation (liquidation judiciaire) on 1 December 2025 after safeguard proceedings opened
  26 September 2024 and judicial reorganisation opened 3 March 2025. The court found the company could not raise the funds
  needed to finance its continuation plan within the deadlines, despite the strength of its technology portfolio and its new
  operational model.
x-domain-status: dark-origin
x-domain-note: 'ynsect.com remains registered to the company at OVH (created 2011-03-05, registry expiry 2027-03-05, record
  updated 2026-01-29) and still resolves to 51.75.15.14, but the origin is decommissioned: TCP 80 and TCP 443 do not accept
  connections, so every request to ynsect.com and www.ynsect.com fails at connect with no HTTP status. ynsect.fr answers HTTP
  301 to http://www.ynsect.com/ on every path — a bare OVH domain redirect to the dead host. No API, docs, developer, portal,
  app or console subdomain has ever been delegated (all NXDOMAIN), and no GitHub organization exists. See well-known/ynsect-well-known.yml
  for the full 125-probe record. The domain is NOT parked or re-registered by a third party, so there is no soft-200 catch-all
  to guard against — unlike all/domio/.'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-04'
modified: '2026-09-04'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Agriculture
- AgTech
- Food
- Insect-Protein
- Animal-Feed
- Fertilizer
- Biotechnology
- Manufacturing
- France
tags_raw:
- Company
- Defunct
- Agriculture
- AgTech
- Food
- Insect Protein
- Animal Feed
- Fertilizer
- Biotechnology
- Manufacturing
- France
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: Ÿnsect was placed in judicial liquidation on 1 December 2025 and its web origin has since been switched off — ynsect.com
    still resolves to 51.75.15.14 but refuses connections on ports 80 and 443, so all 100 probes against ynsect.com and www.ynsect.com
    failed at connect with no HTTP status, while ynsect.fr returns a blanket 301 to that same dead host on all 25 paths probed.
  evidence:
  - url: https://ynsect.com/
    status: 0
  - url: https://www.ynsect.com/
    status: 0
  - url: https://ynsect.com/openapi.json
    status: 0
  - url: https://ynsect.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 0
  - url: http://ynsect.fr/openapi.json
    status: 301
  - url: https://github.com/ynsect
    status: 404
  - url: https://forgeglobal.com/ynsect_stock/
    status: 403
  checked: '2026-09-04'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-04'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v3