Company details

HEADCOUNT

25-99

ORG TYPE

Startup

SECTOR

Food & Ag

WEBSITE

http://www.projecteaden.com/

About the company

Project Eaden is a Berlin food-tech startup making ultra-realistic plant-based meat using a proprietary fibre-spinning approach inspired by textile manufacturing. The company sells consumer products under the LEKKA brand and has talked publicly about scaling towards mainstream retail. Project Eaden was founded in 2022 and has raised a reported €15m Series A (announced January 2025) to support rollout and manufacturing scale-up. The company’s public hiring shows a mix of corporate roles (finance, marketing) and hands-on production site roles.

Locations and presence

Project Eaden is headquartered in Berlin, with roles listed across Berlin neighbourhoods including Kreuzberg and Lichtenberg. Public company profiles also position Project Eaden as Germany-based with a primarily Berlin-centred team.

Palpable Score

55.7

/ 100

Project Eaden offers some genuine early-career entry points through a working-student role that reads like real finance work rather than admin. The main constraint is volume: the visible open roles skew experienced, and the company does not publish enough outcome data to judge how junior hires progress after joining.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

9.2

/ 20

The company lists a Finance Working Student role (15–20 hours/week) designed for current Bachelor or Master students, which is a clear early-career doorway.
Project Eaden’s currently visible openings are mostly experienced (for example Finance Manager or senior accounting profiles), so early-career roles are present but not frequent.
The company shows operational hiring for the production site, but most roles are not framed as trainee, apprentice, or 0–2 year pathways.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

13.0

/ 20

The company publishes unusually detailed task scopes for at least one student role, breaking down responsibilities across accounting ops, reporting, systems, and projects.
Project Eaden includes practical constraints in listings such as weekly hours, office core times, language requirements, and what the role reports into.
The company does not publicly describe interview stages, assessment formats, or timelines in the job pages, which makes candidate expectations harder to set.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

12.0

/ 20

The company explicitly frames the working-student role as hands-on learning, including building accounting processes and getting exposure from bookkeeping through investor-facing work.
Project Eaden states the student role reports to a Finance Lead and learns via close collaboration with leadership, which is a strong startup-style coaching signal.
The company does not publish a consistent onboarding plan, review cadence, or mentorship structure, so support may vary by manager and team.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

11.0

/ 20

The company shows at least one role with a public salary range (35,000–40,000€ per year), which is a meaningful transparency signal.
Project Eaden repeatedly references competitive compensation, benefits, and ESOP participation for permanent roles, which supports stability even when ranges are not stated.
The company does not show salary ranges for most roles (including the student role), which caps confidence on pay fairness for early-career candidates.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

10.5

/ 20

The company has a very small public employee-review footprint with top-end ratings, but the sample size is too limited to treat as reliable early-career outcomes.
Project Eaden’s job content suggests juniors could gain breadth fast (systems like SAP, dashboards, cross-functional work), but the company does not publish promotion or progression examples by level.
The company does not share measurable early-career outcomes such as intern-to-offer rates, tenure bands, or structured growth milestones, which keeps this score in the middle.