Nine years ago, Minim Science Co-founder and CEO Jason Lee learned that his son had a severe peanut allergy. Not long after, his daughter was diagnosed with the same allergy.

As Jason navigated the daily reality of keeping his children safe, he began to see a fundamental problem: people with food allergies are forced to be their own advocates, investigators, and food-safety experts to determine what they can eat.

It reminded him of what he had seen at his two previous companies, DailyPay and Salt Labs, where he built technology for underserved populations and saw what happens when people who have been left to navigate a broken system on their own are finally given better technology.

Together with Dr. Nate Newman, one of the world’s foremost experts in microwave, photonic, and high-speed applications, Jason founded Minim Science to change that. By bringing advanced science out of the laboratory and into the food safety system, Minim Science is building affordable, science-backed technology that enables the businesses producing and serving food to take responsibility for knowing what’s in it.