Our Story

We don't want
to meet you
as a patient.

Two scientists who spent years designing drugs for the very ill — and decided that help can come decades earlier, in what you eat every day.

Yogutide Founder
"We spent years meeting people at their worst moment. We decided to spend the rest reaching them at their best."
Eva & Rahmad  –  Scientists & Yogutide Co-Founders
On prevention

From treating to preventing.

The science is clear. We chose not to ignore it.

The research told the same story: metabolic diseases can be delayed or prevented through nutrition and lifestyle. Not with exotic compounds or decade-long trials. With what you eat, every day.

Food technology lets you intervene years before someone becomes a patient. No prescription. No clinical trial. A better morning.

That's when we knew. We didn't want to design the next drug. We wanted to design the thing that means you never need it.

The founders

Built by scientists.
Not influencers.

Built by scientists who know what happens when prevention comes too late.

Eva Smorodina
Co-Founder · CEO

25+ Papers · 840+ Citations

LinkedIn →    Publications →    Credentials →

Computational biologist with deep expertise in protein design and molecular modeling. Eva has worked across leading labs across the globe, including Harvard, MIT, and University of Oslo. Through her work at Nucleate and Amino Collective, and her consulting background at 310.ai and Chai Discovery, Eva brings the entrepreneurship and investment lens to biological problems.

At Yogutide, she brings both sides of what the company needs — the scientific rigour and entrepreneurial instinct to build a company that lasts.

EWOR Fellow · Amino Collective Investment Fellow · Nucleate Norway Co-founder
Rahmad Akbar
Co-Founder · CTO

50+ Papers · 1330+ Citations

LinkedIn →    Publications →    Credentials →

Award-winning antibody designer with over a decade of best-in-class antibody and protein design experience. He helps people live their best lives. Rahmad won Norway Idea Prize 2022 and Silver Spot Award 2025, and co-authored patents with University of Oslo and a big pharma. He has a PhD in bioinformatics and a bronze medal from the National Biology Olympiad.

At Yogutide, he applies the same molecular precision to something earlier — the everyday biology of people who aren't patients yet, and want to stay that way.

Norway Idea Prize 2022 · Silver Spot Award 2025 · UiO Computational Biology Lab
Behind Yogutide

The first good thing
to start your day.

Made for health. Made for life.

A probiotic drink crafted by scientists, designed for the people we wish we could have reached sooner. Made in Oslo. Made for mornings around the world.

Our background

Computational structural biology and therapeutic drug design

Our conviction

Prevention through nutrition, not treatment after disease

Our mission

Products that optimize metabolic wellness and prevent disease

The journey

How we got here.

From computational biology to your kitchen table.

By the time a drug reaches a patient, their body has been fighting alone for years. We wanted to be there before the fight began.

01 The Lab

Years in computational biology, designing drug candidates at the molecular level. Simulations, free energy calculations, protein dynamics. The precision was beautiful. The timeline was not.

02 The Doubt

Clinical trials take 10+ years. Regulatory approval takes more. Real proof of concept — a patient getting better — is always over the horizon. We wanted faster feedback, closer to life.

03 The Seeing

Working in pharma, watching drugs reach people who were already terminally ill. Too late, too expensive, too slow. The system cures at the end. Nobody protects at the beginning.

04 The Decision

We left therapeutic development. Not because it doesn't matter — it does, profoundly — but because we saw a gap and a need upstream. Prevention starts early and has no waiting room.

05 The Pivot

Consumer food products. Faster iteration, quicker feedback, earlier impact. Real ingredients, real science, and a product you can hold in your hand tomorrow. Not in a decade.

06 The Mission

Build products that enter people's lives early. Shape everyday habits instead of treating late-stage disease. A probiotic drink today. A health platform tomorrow. The long game, played from the start.

On what comes next

We chose to enter your life early.

Not as doctors. Not as pharmacists. As the quiet small thing throughout your day that keeps you well.

We believe the most powerful intervention isn't a drug that arrives at the end. It's a habit that starts at the beginning — something simple, something daily, something that compounds over years into a body that doesn't need rescuing.

The best time to care for your health is long before you need it.

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Partnership enquiries.

We are looking for partners who share our belief that the best time to support someone's health is long before they need a doctor. If that's you, we'd love a 15-minute conversation. No commitment required.

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Eva Smorodina, CEO
eva@yogutide.com

Rahmad Akbar, CTO
rahmad@yogutide.com