Company

Our Story

From discovery to shelf — faster, smarter, compliant.

We know this problem. We’ve spent decades inside it.

Prodeen’s founders bring together over 45 years of combined experience building technology for the food and beverage industry. They created Selerant (acquired by TraceOne) and SGS Digicomply — two platforms that became the compliance backbone for the world’s largest CPG companies. They lived the reality of fragmented tools, manual research, and disconnected data across regulatory, quality, R&D, and product development teams.

Then we saw the shift.

Generative AI didn’t just offer incremental improvement — it opened the door to a fundamentally different way of working. Not another database. Not another chatbot bolted onto legacy infrastructure. But an intelligent platform that could research, reason, monitor, and execute — autonomously, accurately, and at scale.

So we built Prodeen.

A category-defining product intelligence platform purpose-built for the food and beverage industry. Prodeen combines specialized AI agents, expert-designed playbooks, and deep regulatory knowledge into one system that automates the workflows teams have been doing manually for decades. From regulatory horizon scanning to label creation to supplier vetting to product innovation — Prodeen is the intelligence layer the industry has been waiting for.

The Team

Nicola Colombo

CEO, Co-Founder

Serial entrepreneur with two exits in regulatory compliance software. Founded Selerant (acquired by TraceOne) and C-LABS, the company behind SGS Digicomply. 25+ years building technology for the food safety ecosystem. Sets Prodeen’s product vision and technology architecture.

Tye Blazey

CRO & Co-Founder

20 years of executive leadership in CPG and regulatory compliance. First commercial hire at SGS Digicomply — grew the business to $10M ARR with 50 of the top 100 global CPG companies as clients. Leads Prodeen’s strategy, growth, and enterprise partnerships.

Jakub Janostik

CTO & Co-Founder

Architect of SGS Digicomply’s AI and machine learning infrastructure. Full-stack engineer with deep expertise in AI/ML, NLP, and scalable platform architecture. Leads Prodeen’s technical development and AI agent framework.

Gabriel Ragazi

Ai Domain Expert (ADE), food science

8+ years in food R&D, from bench development to plant start-ups. Leads AI-driven concept development, predictive formulation modeling, and digital regulatory compliance at Prodeen. International research background from the University of Nebraska. Bridges scientific rigor with AI to bring smarter, safer food solutions to life