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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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- Alexandre Zanghellini *********.***********@arzeda.com
- Walter G. Rakitsky ******.********@arzeda.com
- Eric Althoff ****.*******@seattlechildrens.org
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$50.0k
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Pembient uses advances in biotechnology to fabricate horn and other wildlife products to combat the threat to endangered species.
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$711.5m
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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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- Ryan Pandya ****@perfectday.com
- Perumal Gandhi *******.******@perfectday.com
- Isha Datar ****@new-harvest.org
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$20.3m
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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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$37.5m
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Finless Foods is a biotechnology company producing cultured marine animal food products through implementing cellular agriculture and manufacturing technologies.
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- Michael Selden
- Michael Selden linkedin
- Brian Wyrwas *****@finlessfoods.com
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$390.0m
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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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$220.0m
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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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$119.8m
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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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- Didier Toubia ******.******@aleph-farms.com
- Shulamit Levenberg ********.*********@aleph-farms.com
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$551.0m
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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.
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$580.8m
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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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- Uma Valeti ***@upsidefoods.com
- Nicholas Genovese linkedin
- Will Clem linkedin
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$104.5m
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A cellular agriculture company making fresh and frozen cultured seafood products.
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- Christopher Somogyi
- Chris Dammann ********@bluenalu.com
- Lou Cooperhouse ************@bluenalu.com
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$256.5m
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Meatable is a cellular agriculture company making 100 percent clean meat products.
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$114.3m
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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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$138.2m
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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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- Peter Verstrate *****.***@cytovale.com
- Mark Post ****@mosameat.com
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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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$191.8m
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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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$21.2m
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Wild Earth is a biotechnology company using cellular agriculture to produce high-protein pet food.
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- Ryan Bethencourt ****@wildearth.com
- Ron Shigeta linkedin
- Abril Estrada linkedin
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$366.0m
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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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- Karim Pichara Baksai
- Pablo Zamora
- Matias Muchnick ******@notco.com
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$3.2m
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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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$60.0m
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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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- Benjamina Bollag linkedin
- Stephanie Wallis *********.******@maticabio.com
- David Hay *****@uncommongoods.com
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$84.5m
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SCiFi Foods (formerly Artemys Foods) is a company that makes and provides meat that is animal-free
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- Joshua March linkedin
- Kasia Gora *****@scififoods.com
- Jess Krieger
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$20.4m
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Shiok Meats is a Singapore-based cellular agriculture company focusing on making cultured seafood.
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$119.5m
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Wild Type is a San Francisco based company producing meat products like salmon using cellular agriculture lab techniques.
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- Justin Kolbeck ******@thewildtype.com
- Arye Elfenbein ****@wildtypefoods.com
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$81.1m
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Meati Foods is a Colorado-based alternative meat company.
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- Justin Whiteley ******@meati.com
- Tyler Huggins *****.*******@inventwood.com
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$27.5m
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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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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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$1.2m
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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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$3.1m
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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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$34.7m
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A cellular agriculture company creating meat cultured from animal cells.
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$28.5m
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A food and beverage company using cellular agriculture to make cow cheese.
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- Inja Radman ****@newculture.com
- Matt Kendall
- Matt Gibson ****@newculture.com
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$7.1m
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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.
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- Joanna Bromley linkedin
- Paul Shapiro ****.*******@bettermeat.co
- Christian Edler ******@post.harvard.edu
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$297.6m
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MycoTechnology is a privately owned company that was founded in 2013 and based in Aurora, Colorado.
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$25.2m
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NovaMeat produces 3D printed plant-based meat substitutes through food printing and tissue engineering technologies.
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$85.0m
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We bring delicious plant-based proteins with a perfect texture and fibre to the table - without any additives.
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- Eric Stirnemann ****.**********@eatplanted.com
- Pascal Bieri ******.*****@eatplanted.com
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$5.2m
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Orbillion Bio develops premium cultivated meat at a low cost.
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- Patricia Bubner *********@orbillion.com
- Gabriel Levesque-Tremblay ********@orbillion.com
- Samet Yildirim linkedin
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$13.4m
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Creating custom growth media solutions for the cellular agriculture industry.
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- Jalene Anderson-Baron ******@futurefields.io
- Matt Anderson-Baron ****@futurefields.io
- Lejjy Gafour linkedin
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$68.2m
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Gourmey is France's first cultivated meat company. Its mission is to accelerate the world’s transition toward humane, sustainable, and healthy meat by harvesting it from animal cells.
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- Antoine Davydoff *******@gourmey.com
- Nicolas Morin-Forest *******@gourmey.com
- Victor Sayous ******@gourmey.com
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$200.0k
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String Bio is a company in Bengaluru, India.
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- Ezhil Subbian ********@stringbio.com
- Vinod Kumar ******@stringbio.com
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$19.6m
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Cubic Foods is a Barcelona-based food technology company growing cell-based specialty fats.
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- Andres Montefeltro ************@cubiqfoods.com
- Raquel Revilla ********@cubiqfoods.com
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$13.9m
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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.
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$2.4m
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Umami Bioworks (previously known as Umami Meats) is a Singapore-based food technology company producing cultivated fish.
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$3.9m
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A company offering a platform for access to bioresearch materials from institutions including antibodies and secondary detection reagents.
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Mirai Foods is a plant-based company producing real meat from animal stem cells.
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- Suman Das *****.***@ddmsys.com
- Christoph Mayr *********.****@miraifoods.com
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$1.3m
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Based on the cultivation of mushroom mycelium, is developing a range of animal protein substitute products.
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- Pablo Ignacio Sanchez Rey *****@innomylabs.com
- Juan Pablo De Giacomi ****@innomylabs.com
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$23.8m
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InnovoPro is a Ra'anana-based company founded in 2013 by Ascher Shmulewitz.
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$1.6m
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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.
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$170.0m
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$200.0k
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Luyef Biotechnologies is a Santiago-based company founded in 2021 by Andrea Villanueva, Kris Blanchard and Pamela Barroso.
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- Andrea Villanueva ******.**********@luyef.com
- Kris Blanchard ****.*********@luyef.com
- Pamela Barroso linkedin