# Ynsect

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ynsect/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 4.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-09-04 under rubric 0.18.3.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 46.3 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Tags

Company, Defunct, Agriculture, AgTech, Food, Insect-Protein, Animal-Feed, Fertilizer, Biotechnology, Manufacturing, France

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