Milkify was founded by Dr. Berkley Luck, an expert in the field of microbiome science. Dr. Luck studied the infant gut microbiome, and used freeze-drying technology during her graduate research as a way to preserve the probiotic bacteria she was studying. Seeing the opportunity offered by freeze-drying technology, Milkify started with the goal of preserving the probiotics in breast milk for better infant nutrition.  Dr. Luck spent the better part of a year fine-tuning and perfecting a safe and effective freeze-drying process specific to human breast milk - the result being Milkify’s proprietary process which allows the storage of breast milk powder for 3 years with no refrigeration. Then, together with her Co-Founder and husband, Pedro Silva, set out to create a service based around the mission of removing barriers to breastfeeding.

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