23 Best Alternative Seafood Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Alternative Seafood Startups

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There are 23 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $535.6m. The average funding per company in this subset is $23.3m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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New Wave Foods logo

New Wave Foods

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.

9

Funding Rounds

$20.3m

Money raised

Finless Foods logo

Finless Foods

Finless Foods is a biotechnology company producing cultured marine animal food products through implementing cellular agriculture and manufacturing technologies.

9

Funding Rounds

$37.5m

Money raised

BlueNalu logo

BlueNalu

A cellular agriculture company making fresh and frozen cultured seafood products.

5

Funding Rounds

$104.5m

Money raised

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Hungry Planet

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.

1

Funding Rounds

$25.0m

Money raised

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Ocean Hugger Foods

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.

2

Funding Rounds

$500.0k

Money raised

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Shiok Meats

Shiok Meats is a Singapore-based cellular agriculture company focusing on making cultured seafood.

5

Funding Rounds

$20.4m

Money raised

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Wild Type (company)

Wild Type is a San Francisco based company producing meat products like salmon using cellular agriculture lab techniques.

4

Funding Rounds

$119.5m

Money raised

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Good Catch

Good Catch is a New York-based food technology company focused on the production of plant-based seafood alternatives.

4

Funding Rounds

$82.7m

Money raised

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Prime Roots

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.

2

Funding Rounds

$4.6m

Money raised

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Sophie's Kitchen

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.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

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Sol Cuisine

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.

1

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

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The Very Good Butchers

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.

1

Funding Rounds

$64.3k

Money raised

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The Better Meat Co

The Better Meat Co is a food technology company located in Sacramento, California, and founded by Paul Shaprio and Joanna Bromley in 2018, making plant-based proteins for food service providers and meat processors.

2

Funding Rounds

$7.1m

Money raised

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Avant Meats

Avant Meats is developing cell cultured fish maw (aka dried fish bladder), a delicacy in traditional Chinese cuisine. Fish maw is typically sourced from either the Chinese Bahaba (giant yellow croaker) or the Totoaba, both of which are on the brink of extinction due to such high demand for fish maw. Avant Meats will source cells from the Chinese Bahaba fish.

2

Funding Rounds

$13.9m

Money raised

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Innomy

Based on the cultivation of mushroom mycelium, is developing a range of animal protein substitute products.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.3m

Money raised

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Immi

immi reinvents the delicious Asian-American foods we love with added nutrition. We've started by creating...

1

Funding Rounds

$3.7m

Money raised

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Umiami

At Umiami, we love meat but we don't like its impact on health, animals and...

3

Funding Rounds

$62.0m

Money raised

Revo Foods logo

Revo Foods

Revo Foods is a plant-based seafood, produced with 3D Food Printing founded in 2020.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.6m

Money raised

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Cultured Decadence

Cultured Decadence is a Wisconsin-based cellular agriculture company using cell culture and tissue engineering technologies to make lobster meat directly from the animal's cells. The company was acquired by Upside Foods in January 2022.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.6m

Money raised

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Cascadia Seaweed

Cascadia Seaweed produces seaweed-based products for regenerative agriculture.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.9m

Money raised

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The Pack

THE PACK, is a food technology startup, creating nutritious, healthy plant-based pet food. Our mission...

1

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

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Plantish Foods

Plantish Foods is a company founded in 2021.

1

Funding Rounds

$12.5m

Money raised

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Modern Meat (Modern Plant Based Foods Inc.)

Modern Plant-Based Foods is a Vancouver, Canada-based company developing plant-based meat alternatives.

1

Funding Rounds