We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.
There are 220 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $8.6b. The average funding per company in this subset is $124.4m.
Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.
Arzeda is a biotechnology and software company designing custom microorganisms for industrial applications through computational enzyme design, protein optimization, and metabolic engineering.
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$72.2m
Money raised
Pembient uses advances in biotechnology to fabricate horn and other wildlife products to combat the threat to endangered species.
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$50.0k
Money raised
Impossible Foods is a plant-based meat company making meat and dairy products that are made to look and feel like animal products by manufacturing heme, the oxygen binding molecule found in blood, using engineered yeast grown in bioreactors.
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$1.9b
Money raised
Bolt Threads is a biotechnology company that makes high performance fabrics and materials using biology.
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$406.4m
Money raised
Perfect Day Foods (formerly Muufri) engineered yeast capable of producing the proteins found in cows milk. They use these proteins to make their own line of animal-free dairy products.
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$711.5m
Money raised
Protera is a biotechnology company that works with protein engineering to address challenges in food, agriculture, the environment, and human health.
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$15.6m
Money raised
New Wave Foods is a biotechnology company developing plant-based shellfish food products. The company is based out of San Francisco, California and was founded in 2015 by Dominique Barnes and Michelle Wolf.
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$20.3m
Money raised
A bio-based chemical manufacturer focusing on human and animal nutrition, health, and materials markets.
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$12.5m
Money raised
Finless Foods is a biotechnology company producing cultured marine animal food products through implementing cellular agriculture and manufacturing technologies.
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$37.5m
Money raised
An Israeli startup company that is working to make sustainable "animal-free" cell-based meat products available at the local level by adapting the distributed manufacturing model
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$390.0m
Money raised
Just, Inc. (formerly known as Hampton Creek) is a food technology company developing and selling plant based food products around the world.
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$220.0m
Money raised
Aleph Farms is an Israeli cellular agriculture start-up founded by Didier Toubia and Shulamit Levenberg in 2017 developing technologies for culturing meat products into 3D structures.
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$119.8m
Money raised
Upside Foods is a San Francisco-based company making cultured meat products. The company was founded by Uma Valeti, Nicholas Genovese, and Will Clem.
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$580.8m
Money raised
Califia Farms makes plant-based dairy products (primarily almond based) such as plant-based milks, plant-based creamers, juices, and dairy-free probiotic yoghurts. The company was founded in 2010 by Greg Steltenpohl and is located in San Joaquin Valley, California.
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$295.0m
Money raised
Planet A Foods is a cocoa-free chocolate maker founded in 2021 by Sara Marquart.
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$21.0m
Money raised
A cellular agriculture company making fresh and frozen cultured seafood products.
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$104.5m
Money raised
Meatable is a cellular agriculture company making 100 percent clean meat products.
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$256.5m
Money raised
Geltor is a cellular agriculture company making essential proteins, such as collagen and gelatin, using microbes in their own bio-fermentation recombinant protein production facility.
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$114.3m
Money raised
Seattle Food Tech is a food manufacturing technology and production company producing plant-based meats. They make plant-based food and plant-based chicken nuggets.
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$24.2m
Money raised
Mosa Meat is a Dutch start-up company that makes and commercializes clean meat, meat made by growing animal cells directly rather than slaughtering animals.
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$138.2m
Money raised
Integriculture is a Japanese cellular agriculture company making lab grown foie gras and other clean meat and cellular agriculture products. The company was founded in on October 23, 2015 and is located in Tokyo, Japan.
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The EVERY Company (formally Clara Foods) is a biotechnology company founded by two New Harvest community members David Anchel and Arturo Elizondo in 2014. The company is based out of San Francisco, California and manufactures animal- free proteins using using yeast bio-fermentation techniques fore use in food products.
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$191.8m
Money raised
Wild Earth is a biotechnology company using cellular agriculture to produce high-protein pet food.
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$21.2m
Money raised
Air Protein is a Berkeley-based biotechnology company producing protein with microorganisms that are fed carbon dioxide in a mission to replace animal agriculture.
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$32.0m
Money raised
Hungry Planet is a food technology startup company founded in 2016 by siblings Todd and Jody Boyman. Hungry Planet is located in St.Louis, Missouri, and produces plant-based meats. The company offers beef, Italian sausage, chorizo, chicken, pork, crab and turkey - available in chubs (ground), crumble and patties.
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$25.0m
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NotCo is a food science company located in Santiago, Chile, making plant-based Greek yogurt, milk, cheese and mayonnaise, with the help of their artificial intelligence software called Giuseppe.
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$366.0m
Money raised
Ocean Hugger Foods is making a plant-based raw tuna substitute called Ahimi out of a mixture of 5 ingredients; tomatoes, filtered water, soy sauce, sesame oil, and sugar. The company is located in New York City, New York and was founded in 2015.
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$500.0k
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SuperMeat is an Israeli biotechnology company, founded on December 15, 2015. SuperMeat is working to develop chicken meat products cultured from extracted chicken cells.
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$3.2m
Money raised
Uncommon, formerly known as Higher Steaks, is a cellular agriculture company based in London, England founded in 2017 by Benjamina Bollag, Stephanie Wallis and David Hay working to develop pork and other meat products using cellular agriculture.
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$60.0m
Money raised
One Planet Pizza is a company making plant-based pizza founded in 2016.
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$490.0k
Money raised
SCiFi Foods (formerly Artemys Foods) is a company that makes and provides meat that is animal-free
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$84.5m
Money raised
Shiok Meats is a Singapore-based cellular agriculture company focusing on making cultured seafood.
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$20.4m
Money raised
Alpha Foods is a plant-based food company operating out of Glendale, California, that was founded in by Cole Orobetz and Loren Wallis in 2015.
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$47.4m
Money raised
Wild Type is a San Francisco based company producing meat products like salmon using cellular agriculture lab techniques.
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$119.5m
Money raised
Motif Foodworks is a food ingredients company that uses biotechnology to brew proteins and nutrients, for sustainable foods.
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$344.3m
Money raised
Good Catch is a New York-based food technology company focused on the production of plant-based seafood alternatives.
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$82.7m
Money raised
Meati Foods is a Colorado-based alternative meat company.
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$81.1m
Money raised
Biotech company that develops and commercializes ingredients for use in food, nutrition, personal healthcare, agriculture, and other sectors.
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$35.2m
Money raised
Mission Barns is a clean meat company company is headquartered in Berkeley, California producing clean meat. The company was founded in March, 2018, by Eitan Fischer (former director of cellular agriculture of JUST, Inc) and David Bowman.
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$27.5m
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A food technology company, based in Finland and founded in 2017, that has a process to electrolyze water for production of hydrogen in a system to feed bacteria to produce an edible protein food product with a low environmental impact. Their technology is being developed for space travel and future food production on Mars.
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$44.8m
Money raised
Because Animals is a pet food and cellular agriculture technology company founded in 2016 by Shannon Falconer and Joshua Erret, and is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Because Animals makes 100% animal-free pet foods, treats, and supplements.
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Roquette is a French company focused on the production of plant-based food and nutrition ingredients for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. The company was founded in 1933 by Dominique & Germain Roquette, and is headquartered in Lestrem, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France.
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Prime Roots (formerly Terramino Foods) is a food company located in San Leandro, California, founded by Kimberlie Le and Joshua Nixon in 2017 producing a salmon meat substitute made from fungi.
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$4.6m
Money raised
Algarithm is a plant-based omega-3 ingredient company located in Saskatoon, Canada and was founded on June 22, 2017, by Udaya Wanasundara and Ben Kelly. The company derives omega-3 fatty acids from from algal oil for use in the food, beverage, and dietary supplement industries.
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Bond Pet Foods is a biotechnology company located in Nederland, Colorado, founded in 2015 by Rich Kelleman. Bond Pet Foods is making "cruelty free" real animal protein pet foods using cellular agriculture.
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$1.2m
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Nature's Fynd is a biotechnology company growing edible proteins founded in 2012.
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$851.0m
Money raised
GoodDot is a plant-based protein manufacturer and food technology company operating out of Udaipur, India. The company was founded in 2016 by Abhishek Sinha, Stephanie Downs, Deepak Parihar, Taranum Bhatia, and Shruti Sonali.
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$200.0k
Money raised
Sophie's Kitchen is a plant-based vegan seafood company located in Dover,Kent County, DE and founded by Eugene Wang in 2010. The company is producing vegan seafood such as crab meat, shrimp, scallops, tuna and salmon.
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$1.0m
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An organization promoting clean meat, plant-based meat, and clean eggs and dairy as alternatives to traditional animal-based products.
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$3.1m
Money raised
Calysta is a biotechnology company seeking to improve worldwide food security through making animal feed. The company is based out of Menlo Park, California and was founded in 2012 by Josh Silverman.
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$274.2m
Money raised
Equinom is a computational seed breeding company providing multi-trait seed products specified for the food industry. The company offers pea, cowpea, chickpea, mung bean lentil, fava and sesame varieties.
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$38.0m
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C16 Biosciences is a biotechnology company making alternatives to palm oil founded in 2018 by Shara Ticku, David Heller and Harry McNamara.
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$44.0m
Money raised
Sunfed Meats is a company located in New Zealand making plant-based meat substitutes primarily out of pea proteins. Sunfed's Chicken Free Chicken was the companies first pea protein based product to be sold on the market; with double the protein of chicken and triple the iron of beef.
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$10.0m
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Nobell Foods is a San Francisco-based alternative protein manufacturer focused on developing and manufacturing plant-based dairy alternatives.
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$150.0m
Money raised
3F BIO is a biotechnology company developing and commercializing sustainable proteins, bioethanol and animal food production technologies. Jim Laird founded 3F Bio at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland in 2015.
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$29.7m
Money raised
Foods for Tomorrow is a plant-based food technology company located in Barcelona, Spain that was founded by Marc Coloma in 2017. Foods for Tomorrow makes a plant-based protein ingredient called Heura that mimics the texture of meat.
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$270.0k
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Improved Nature is a plant-based food technology company operating out of Garner, North Carolina that was founded in 2015 by Richard Hawkins, Steve Klawiter, Larry Chandler, Moshe Meidan and Sarid Shefet.
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$8.0m
Money raised
The Protein Brewery is a Breda-based developer and manufacturer animal-free-based protein based on fungi fermentation processes.
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$52.3m
Money raised
Sol Cuisine is a food company manufacturing vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, organic, non-GMO, and fresh meat alternatives. The company was founded by Dror Balshine in 1980 and is located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
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$10.0m
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Tofurky is a brand name of an alternative turkey alternative. Tofurky is a trademark of a company called Turtle Islands Foods that was founded by Seth Tibbot in 1980 operating out of Hood River, Oregon.
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$7.0m
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A company that cultures human mammary cells and produces custom and commercial lab-grown breastmilk. It was founded in 2020 and is located in Durham, North Carolina.
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$21.0m
Money raised
A company developing carbon dioxide (CO2) reducing technology and converting CO2 and sunlight into organic compounds. It was founded in 2008 and is located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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$9.0m
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PURIS is an American food company producing plant-based, non-GMO food ingredients. Puris was founded in Oskaloosa, Iowa in 1985, and is now headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company is focused on pea production for the creation of pea-based protein, fiber, and starch ingredients.
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$37.5m
Money raised
Garden Gourmet is a vegetarian food brand initially established in Israel in 1986 and was later acquired by Nestle in 2017.
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Spero Foods is a food and data analytics company located in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2016 by Phaedra Anestassia using data analytics to make plant-based diary and egg alternatives.
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The Herbivorous Butcher is a vegan meat shop creating meat-free meats and cheese-free cheeses. Siblings Aubry and Kale Walch founded The Herbivorous Butcher in 2013 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with the mission to promote healthy and ethical eating.
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$61.8k
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The Abbot's Butcher is a food company founded in 2016 by Kerry Song and headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, making plant-based meat alternatives.
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$1.1m
Money raised
The Very Good Butchers are a food company running a restaurant and vegan butcher shop making plant-based meat-alternatives in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, that was founded by James Davidson and Tania Friesen in 2016.
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$64.3k
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A cellular agriculture company creating meat cultured from animal cells.
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$34.7m
Money raised