69 Best Fermentation Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Fermentation Startups

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 89 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $6.7b. The average funding per company in this subset is $96.5m.

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

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Arzeda logo

Arzeda

Arzeda is a biotechnology and software company designing custom microorganisms for industrial applications through computational enzyme design, protein optimization, and metabolic engineering.

5

Funding Rounds

$72.2m

Money raised

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Bolt Threads

Bolt Threads is a biotechnology company that makes high performance fabrics and materials using biology.

8

Funding Rounds

$406.4m

Money raised

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Perfect Day Foods

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.

7

Funding Rounds

$711.5m

Money raised

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Protera Bio

Protera is a biotechnology company that works with protein engineering to address challenges in food, agriculture, the environment, and human health.

2

Funding Rounds

$15.6m

Money raised

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Planet A Foods

Planet A Foods is a cocoa-free chocolate maker founded in 2021 by Sara Marquart.

2

Funding Rounds

$21.0m

Money raised

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Genomatica

Genomatica is a San Diego-based company founded in 2000 by Christophe Schilling.

10

Funding Rounds

$635.4m

Money raised

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Geltor

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.

7

Funding Rounds

$114.3m

Money raised

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Lygos

An industrial biotech company developing a commercial bioprocess for manufacturing bio-based malonic acid.

11

Funding Rounds

$50.0m

Money raised

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The EVERY Company

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.

5

Funding Rounds

$191.8m

Money raised

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Wild Earth (company)

Wild Earth is a biotechnology company using cellular agriculture to produce high-protein pet food.

7

Funding Rounds

$21.2m

Money raised

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Air Protein

Air Protein is a Berkeley-based biotechnology company producing protein with microorganisms that are fed carbon dioxide in a mission to replace animal agriculture.

1

Funding Rounds

$32.0m

Money raised

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LanzaTech

A New Zealand industrial biotechnology company developing a gas fermentation platform for converting concentrated industrial emissions into valuable chemicals.

6

Funding Rounds

$265.4m

Money raised

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Motif FoodWorks

Motif Foodworks is a food ingredients company that uses biotechnology to brew proteins and nutrients, for sustainable foods.

4

Funding Rounds

$344.3m

Money raised

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Antheia

Antheia is an American biotechnology company founded in 2013, and is located in Menlo Park, California. Antheia uses synthetic biology, informatics, and fermentation technologies to produce plant based medicines; most notably opioids using yeast.

1

Funding Rounds

$73.0m

Money raised

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Meati Foods

Meati Foods is a Colorado-based alternative meat company.

5

Funding Rounds

$81.1m

Money raised

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Evolva (Pharmaceutical company)

Biotech company that develops and commercializes ingredients for use in food, nutrition, personal healthcare, agriculture, and other sectors.

3

Funding Rounds

$35.2m

Money raised

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Triton Algae Innovations

Biotechnology company developing proteins from algae for animal and human health and address world's food shortages

3

Funding Rounds

$15.0m

Money raised

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Solar Foods

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.

10

Funding Rounds

$44.8m

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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Bond Pet Foods

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.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.2m

Money raised

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Natures Fynd

Nature's Fynd is a biotechnology company growing edible proteins founded in 2012.

8

Funding Rounds

$851.0m

Money raised

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CHAIN Biotechnology

CHAIN Biotechnology is a live biotherapeutics company founded in 2014 and based in Nottingham and Marlow, UK. CHAIN works with the Synthetic Biology Research Centre in Nottingham and has built a live biotherapeutic platform based on Clostridia to deliver bioactive molecules to treat diseases associated with the human gut microbiome.

2

Funding Rounds

$645.0k

Money raised

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Calysta

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.

10

Funding Rounds

$274.2m

Money raised

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C16 Biosciences

C16 Biosciences is a biotechnology company making alternatives to palm oil founded in 2018 by Shara Ticku, David Heller and Harry McNamara.

4

Funding Rounds

$44.0m

Money raised

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Allonnia

Allonnia is developing a new solution intended for waste remediation and management.

1

Funding Rounds

$40.0m

Money raised

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3F Bio

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.

3

Funding Rounds

$29.7m

Money raised

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The Protein Brewery

The Protein Brewery is a Breda-based developer and manufacturer animal-free-based protein based on fungi fermentation processes.

2

Funding Rounds

$52.3m

Money raised

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Joule (company)

A biotechnology company that specialized in the renewable energy sector. It was located in Bedford, Massachusetts and is no longer in operation.

5

Funding Rounds

$225.0m

Money raised

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NovoNutrients

NovoNutrients produce microbes that break down industrial emissions of carbon dioxide and reassemble them into aquaculture feed.

7

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

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Photanol

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.

1

Funding Rounds

$9.0m

Money raised

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Culture Biosciences

Culture Biology is a synthetic biology company offering a bioreactor facility for fermentation on demand services.

4

Funding Rounds

$107.2m

Money raised

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New Culture

A food and beverage company using cellular agriculture to make cow cheese.

2

Funding Rounds

$28.5m

Money raised

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Mascoma

Mascoma, founded in 2006, was a biotechnology company that made advanced bioconversion products. It was acquired by Lallemand in late 2014.

2

Funding Rounds

$91.0m

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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Qteros

A biotechnology and energy company developing processing technologies for clean transportation fuels.

4

Funding Rounds

$87.0m

Money raised

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CB Therapeutics

CB Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on the biosynthetic production of cannabinoids from sugar.

3

Funding Rounds

$15.1m

Money raised

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MycoTechnology

MycoTechnology is a privately owned company that was founded in 2013 and based in Aurora, Colorado.

15

Funding Rounds

$297.6m

Money raised

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Algenol

An industrial biotechnology company developing an algae technology platform for producing ethanol and other biofuels.

1

Funding Rounds

$25.0m

Money raised

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Iogen Corporation

A biotechnology company developing technologies to make biofuels from agricultural residues and organic waste products.

1

Funding Rounds

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Enerkem

Enerkem is a Quebec-based company producing biofuels and renewable chemicals made from non-recyclable waste.

2

Funding Rounds

$302.7m

Money raised

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Pili

Pili is a biotechnology company using microorganisms fed sugar to synthesize commercial quality dyes.

9

Funding Rounds

$40.9m

Money raised

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Biosyntia

Biosyntia is a Danish start-up company focused on synthetic biology.

3

Funding Rounds

$18.4m

Money raised

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Green Biologics Ltd

A biotechnology company using microbiology and chemistry to produce consumer goods and industrial products.

1

Funding Rounds

$15.4m

Money raised

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CRB

CRB is a leading provider of engineering, architecture, construction and consulting solutions, delivering safe, high-quality,...

4

Funding Rounds

$334.0m

Money raised

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Formo

Formo is a manufacturer of animal-free cheese alternative products founded in 2019 by Raffael Wohlgensinger.

2

Funding Rounds

$65.7m

Money raised

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Algama

Algama is a company that produces microalgae-based foods and ingredients for chemicals, cosmetics, nutrition, and health.

5

Funding Rounds

$5.9m

Money raised

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nourish ingredients

Nourish Ingredients is a food technology company leading the movement to revolutionize how alternative protein products are made.

1

Funding Rounds

$11.0m

Money raised

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Manus Biosynthesis

Manus Biosynthesis is a synthetic biology company producing ingredients through fermentation founded in 2011 by Ajikumar Parayil.

2

Funding Rounds

$94.4m

Money raised

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Fulcrum Bioenergy

Fulcrum Bioenergy is a Pleasanton, California-based biofuel and clean technology company.

8

Funding Rounds

$181.0m

Money raised

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Deep Branch

Deep Branch is a carbon dioxide recycling company that is using microorganisms to convert clean CO2 into quality products.

3

Funding Rounds

$11.1m

Money raised

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Kiverdi

Kiverdi is a Hayward, California-based carbon capture and storage company working to commercialize technology using chemoautotrophic microbes to transform carbon dioxide and related gases into bio-based products.

1

Funding Rounds

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Atlast Food Co.

A food technology company making plant-based meat using mycelium.

2

Funding Rounds

$47.0m

Money raised

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Future Fields

Creating custom growth media solutions for the cellular agriculture industry.

2

Funding Rounds

$13.4m

Money raised

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SG Biofuels

SG Biofuels is a biotechnology company developing renewable fuels.

3

Funding Rounds

$37.4m

Money raised

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String Bio

String Bio is a company in Bengaluru, India.

2

Funding Rounds

$200.0k

Money raised

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MushLabs

Mushlabs is a biotech company using fermentation to create the next generation of sustainable foods from the roots of mushrooms.

1

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

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Octarine Bio

Synthetic biology company developing cannabinoid and psilocybin derivatives.

5

Funding Rounds

$10.4m

Money raised

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MOGU (company)

MOGU manufactures materials and technologies that are based on fungi as main constituent.

$16.0m

Money raised

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Mycorena

Mycorena AB is a biotechnology company founded in 2017 and currently based in Gothenburg.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.3m

Money raised

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Fermentalg

Fermentalg has developed processes and uses the same in its fermentors to process microalgae to micropopulate its mitochondria and its molecules of interest for production of biomass which can be sold as feedstock to multiple industries including animal feed human nutrition and energy. The company claims to have filed 26 patents for the processes it has developed and operates more than 30 fermenters with a capacity range from 1 to 750 L.

3

Funding Rounds

$25.5m

Money raised

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Better Dairy

Producing molecularly identical dairy. Same products no animals.

2

Funding Rounds

$4.3m

Money raised

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Acies Bio

Provides strain development, fermentation, chemistry, and other services.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.2m

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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ORF Genetics

A privately-owned Icelandic company established in 2001. ORF Genetics Ltd. is a pioneer in genetic...

10

Funding Rounds

$1.7m

Money raised

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Hargol FoodTech (Steak TzarTzar)

A company in the insect processing, production, or supply industry.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

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Bosque Foods

KINOKO LABS is becoming BOSQUE FOODS ! We are excited to present our new brand...

2

Funding Rounds

$5.9m

Money raised

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Melt&Marble

Melt&Marble (formerly Biopetrolia) uses precision fermentation to produce animal fats, without the animal. By engineering...

2

Funding Rounds

$5.3m

Money raised

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Change Foods

Change Foods is a food company making plant-based dairy alternatives founded in 2020.

1

Funding Rounds

$15.3m

Money raised

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Agrosavfe

Agrosavfe is a Belgium-based company founded in 2013.

2

Funding Rounds

$50.6m

Money raised