5
Funding Rounds
$72.2m
Money raised
Arzeda is a biotechnology and software company designing custom microorganisms for industrial applications through computational enzyme design, protein optimization, and metabolic engineering.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Alexandre Zanghellini *********.***********@arzeda.com
- Walter G. Rakitsky ******.********@arzeda.com
- Eric Althoff ****.*******@seattlechildrens.org
1
Funding Rounds
$50.0k
Money raised
Pembient uses advances in biotechnology to fabricate horn and other wildlife products to combat the threat to endangered species.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
11
Funding Rounds
$1.9b
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.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
8
Funding Rounds
$406.4m
Money raised
Bolt Threads is a biotechnology company that makes high performance fabrics and materials using biology.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Dan Widmaier linkedin
- David Breslauer linkedin
- Ethan Mirsky ********@alum.mit.edu
4
Funding Rounds
$74.3m
Money raised
Pachama is a company estimating carbon storage in forests and predicting future deforestation or potential for forest restoration with the use of satellite images.
6
Funding Rounds
$577.8m
Money raised
Helion Energy is a fusion power company aiming to build the world's first fusion power plant.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- John Slough
- George Votroubek ******@helionenergy.com
- Chris Pihl *****@helionenergy.com
7
Funding Rounds
$711.5m
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.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Ryan Pandya ****@perfectday.com
- Perumal Gandhi *******.******@perfectday.com
- Isha Datar ****@new-harvest.org
3
Funding Rounds
$2.9m
Money raised
Caban Systems is a Burlingame, California-based renewable energy and energy storage company developing modular energy storage platforms for critical infrastructure power needs.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Alexandra Rasch Castillo ******@cabansystems.com
- Brian Pevear *****@a123systems.com
- Alexandra Rasch ******@cabanenergy.com
9
Funding Rounds
$20.3m
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.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
1
Funding Rounds
$12.5m
Money raised
A bio-based chemical manufacturer focusing on human and animal nutrition, health, and materials markets.
Industries:
Location:
5
Funding Rounds
$58.2m
Money raised
Shelf Engine is a Seattle-based software company and developer of an automated prediction ordering platform for food retailers, intended to reduce food waste.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Stefan Kalb ******.****@shelfengine.com
- Bede Jordan ****@shelfengine.com
9
Funding Rounds
$177.9m
Money raised
Pyrowave is a company founded by Jocelyn Doucet, Jamal Chaouki, and Jean-Philippe Laviolette.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Jamal Chaouki *****.*******@polymtl.ca
- Jean-Philippe Laviolette
- Jocelyn Doucet *******@pyrowave.com
7
Funding Rounds
$83.0m
Money raised
Molecular Assemblies, Inc. is an enzymatic DNA synthesis technology founded in 2013 by Curt Becker, Bill Efcavitch and William Efcavitch.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Bill Efcavitch ******@saavha.com
- Curt Becker linkedin
- William Efcavitch linkedin
4
Funding Rounds
$390.0m
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
8
Funding Rounds
$220.0m
Money raised
Just, Inc. (formerly known as Hampton Creek) is a food technology company developing and selling plant based food products around the world.
4
Funding Rounds
$119.8m
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.
Industries:
Key people:
- Didier Toubia ******.******@aleph-farms.com
- Shulamit Levenberg ********.*********@aleph-farms.com
8
Funding Rounds
$551.0m
Money raised
Eat Just is a San Francisco based food technology company founded in 2011. The company is known for its bean-based egg substitute called Just Egg. Eat Just also produces egg-free mayonnaise.
4
Funding Rounds
$580.8m
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.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Uma Valeti ***@upsidefoods.com
- Nicholas Genovese linkedin
- Will Clem linkedin
21
Funding Rounds
$1.9b
Money raised
Apeel Sciences is a company that develops treatments to prevent spoilage of fruits and vegetables using molecules naturally found in peels, which maintain moisture and keep out oxygen.
Industries:
Key people:
- James Rogers *****@apeel.com
1
Funding Rounds
$408.5k
Money raised
Urban Electric Power is a Pearl River, New York-based developer of a zinc manganese dioxide battery technology. The company was spun out of the CUNY Energy Institute in 2013.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Sanjoy Banerjee ******@urbanelectricpower.com
- Valerio De Angelis *******.*********@sandia.gov
7
Funding Rounds
$63.3m
Money raised
Catalog is a Boston, Massachusetts-based company developing a platform for DNA-based digital data storage.
Location:
Key people:
- Hyunjun Park *******@catalogdna.com
- Nathaniel Roquet linkedin
14
Funding Rounds
$229.5m
Money raised
General Fusion pursues a fast, efficient, and collaborative path to practical fusion power. We are completing an aggressive development plan to deliver economical carbon-free fusion energy with our proprietary Magnetized Target Fusion technology by the 2030s.
5
Funding Rounds
$2.1b
Money raised
Commonwealth Fusion Systems is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based research and development company developing fusion power systems based on ARC tokamak reactors.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Dan Brunner ***@cfs.energy
- Martin Greenwald (Scientist) linkedin
- Bob Mumgaard ***@cfs.energy
9
Funding Rounds
$331.1m
Money raised
Modern Meadow is a biotechnology company using cellular agriculture and biofabrication to manufacture bioleather, "Zoa", out of cultured animal free collagen mixed with natural and man made materials.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Gabor Forgacs
- Francoise Marga ******@modernmeadow.com
- Karoly Jakab ******@modernmeadow.com
1
Funding Rounds
South Pole is a Zurich-based climate solutions company offering sustainable project development services in order to provide carbon offset credits to businesses and organizations.
Location:
Key people:
6
Funding Rounds
$99.3m
Money raised
LevelTen Energy provides a clean energy procurement platform for midsize businesses and enterprises.
4
Funding Rounds
$295.0m
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.
2
Funding Rounds
$21.0m
Money raised
Planet A Foods is a cocoa-free chocolate maker founded in 2021 by Sara Marquart.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Sara Marquart ****@qoacompany.com
- Maximilian Marquart ***@forplaneta.com
5
Funding Rounds
$43.9m
Money raised
Via Separations is a Watertown, Massachusetts-based company founded in 2016 by Shreya Dave.
Industries:
Key people:
- Shreya Dave *****@viaseparations.com
- Brent Keller *******@viaseparations.com
10
Funding Rounds
$635.4m
Money raised
Genomatica is a San Diego-based company founded in 2000 by Christophe Schilling.
5
Funding Rounds
$104.5m
Money raised
A cellular agriculture company making fresh and frozen cultured seafood products.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Christopher Somogyi
- Chris Dammann ********@bluenalu.com
- Lou Cooperhouse ************@bluenalu.com
8
Funding Rounds
$269.6m
Money raised
Boom Supersonic is a Colorado-based company developing supersonic commercial aircraft.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Blake Scholl *****@boomsupersonic.com
- Joe Wilding **********@yahoo.com
- Josh Krall ***********@pobox.com
11
Funding Rounds
$256.5m
Money raised
Meatable is a cellular agriculture company making 100 percent clean meat products.
1
Funding Rounds
$13.0m
Money raised
Blue Origin is an American, privately-funded, aerospace developer and manufacturer that is interested in lowering the cost of spaceflight in order to explore the solar system
9
Funding Rounds
$1.3b
Money raised
Back Market is an online refurbished goods marketplace connecting consumers with sellers of electronic devices.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Thibaud Hug de Larauze *******@backmarket.com
- Quentin Le Brouster *******.***********@backmarket.com
2
Funding Rounds
$37.0m
Money raised
Reformation is a women's fashion company aimed at designing sustainable clothing and accessories.
3
Funding Rounds
Carbon Analytics provides a SaaS platform solution designed to assess carbon emissions in companies' supply chains and generate actionable data that can be used to reduce emissions.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
2
Funding Rounds
$5.0m
Money raised
Avalanche Energy Designs is an American start-up company designing, testing, and building micro-fusion reactors.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Brian Riordan (Engineer) ********@avalanchefusion.com
- Robin Langtry ********@avalanchefusion.com
7
Funding Rounds
$114.3m
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.
9
Funding Rounds
$474.1m
Money raised
Solugen is a speciality chemical manufacturing company developing aiming to replace petroleum-based chemicals with alternatives made from plant-based substitutes.
6
Funding Rounds
$138.2m
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.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Peter Verstrate *****.***@cytovale.com
- Mark Post ****@mosameat.com
9
Funding Rounds
$24.2m
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.
2
Funding Rounds
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.
Industries:
8
Funding Rounds
$175.0m
Money raised
Viridos is applying synthetic biology to microalgae for the production of products that address climate change and sustainability. Viridos is focused on producing algal biofuels and other sustainable resources from algae.
Industries:
Key people:
- Craig Venter *******@jcvi.org
- David Kiernan
- Hamilton Smith
1
Funding Rounds
$2.5m
Money raised
Toast Ale is a London-based brewery using surplus fresh bread to brew beer and dedicating their profits to charities working to create greater efficiency in the food supply system.
Industries:
Location:
5
Funding Rounds
$191.8m
Money raised
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.
8
Funding Rounds
$286.6m
Money raised
SparkCognition is an artificial intelligence and cybersecurity company offering cognitive computing analytics for the information technology, operational technology, and the internet of things (IoT) industries.
Location:
Key people:
- Amir Husain ****@nvg8.io
10
Funding Rounds
$28.5m
Money raised
Membrion is a Seattle-based clean technology company and developer of flexible ceramic ion exchange membranes capable of being used in wastewater cleaning and in energy storage solutions.
3
Funding Rounds
$145.0m
Money raised
Cala Health offers bioelectronic medicines, medical devices, and neurotherapeutics for managing chronic health conditions.
8
Funding Rounds
$2.0b
Money raised
Allbirds is a startup company manufacturing wool footwear.
Industries:
Location:
13
Funding Rounds
$1.1b
Money raised
Spiber, Inc is a private biomaterials company using industrial biotechnology to develop silk.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
3
Funding Rounds
$80.7m
Money raised
ZeroAvia is an aerospace company developing practical zero emission aviation powertrains using hydrogen power.
Industries:
Location:
7
Funding Rounds
$21.2m
Money raised
Wild Earth is a biotechnology company using cellular agriculture to produce high-protein pet food.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Ryan Bethencourt ****@wildearth.com
- Ron Shigeta linkedin
- Abril Estrada linkedin
1
Funding Rounds
$32.0m
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.
Industries:
Key people:
- Lisa Dyson ****.*****@airprotein.com
- John Reed
12
Funding Rounds
$6.9b
Money raised
Northvolt develops sustainable lithium-ion batteries in conjunction with R&D, industrialization, and recycling to support clean energy.
Location:
Key people:
- Peter Carlsson (entrepreneur) *****.********@northvolt.com
1
Funding Rounds
$25.0m
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.
6
Funding Rounds
$366.0m
Money raised
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.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Karim Pichara Baksai
- Pablo Zamora
- Matias Muchnick ******@notco.com
4
Funding Rounds
$2.2m
Money raised
Scope 5 is a Seattle-based software company offering sustainability reporting and collating services to help companies achieve greater sustainability in their operations and offer companies reporting on sustainability and related efforts where necessary.
2
Funding Rounds
$500.0k
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.
3
Funding Rounds
$5.3m
Money raised
Minimum is a carbon tracking and carbon offsetting company
Location:
Key people:
- Freddie Green *******.*****@minimum.com
- Chris Winchurch *****.*********@minimum.com
- Freddie Evans *******.*****@minimum.com
10
Funding Rounds
$876.0m
Money raised
Climeworks is a clean technology company that has developed technology for carbon dioxide (CO2) capture from ambient air. It was founded in 2009 and is located in Zurich, Switzerland.
11
Funding Rounds
$262.6m
Money raised
BlocPower is a Brooklyn-based provider of a platform for energy efficiency and management for commercial and residential buildings.
2
Funding Rounds
$3.2m
Money raised
SuperMeat is an Israeli biotechnology company, founded on December 15, 2015. SuperMeat is working to develop chicken meat products cultured from extracted chicken cells.
Industries:
Key people:
3
Funding Rounds
$60.0m
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.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Benjamina Bollag linkedin
- Stephanie Wallis *********.******@maticabio.com
- David Hay *****@uncommongoods.com
8
Funding Rounds
$1.1b
Money raised
Pivot Bio is a company that creates technology that is focused on nitrogen fixation in cereal crops through microbes.It was founded in 2010 and is located in Berkeley, California.
Industries:
Key people:
- Karsten Temme *******@pivotbio.com
- Alvin Tamsir
7
Funding Rounds
$39.7m
Money raised
EmitWise helps large businesses monitor and reduce their carbon footprints.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
14
Funding Rounds
$87.2m
Money raised
A medical company in Massachusetts focusing on lowering the cost of vaccine distribution.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Michael Schrader (entrepreneur) *******@vaxess.com
- Fiorenzo Omenetto ********.********@tufts.edu
- Livio Valenti *****@vaxess.com