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 1,056 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $18.5b. The average funding per company in this subset is $267.9m.
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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Funding Rounds
$1.9b
Money raised
Bolt Threads is a biotechnology company that makes high performance fabrics and materials using biology.
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Funding Rounds
$406.4m
Money raised
Bolt, previously Taxify, is a technology start-up and developer of an on-demand transportation platform.
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$3.2b
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
Juicero was a company founded in 2013 that produced and sold an expensive juicer called the Juicero Press, along with fresh produce packets. The company closed after it received extensive negative press regarding its simplistic machine in contrast with its high cost.
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$118.5m
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
Shelf Engine is a Seattle-based software company and developer of an automated prediction ordering platform for food retailers, intended to reduce food waste.
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$58.2m
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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Funding Rounds
$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
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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$551.0m
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
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.
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$1.9b
Money raised
A Canadian food biotech company focused on the development of hypoallergenic peanuts
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Poppi is a beverage company producing prebiotic soda.
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$39.0m
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.
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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
BGI is a life science and genomics organization following a development model of research, production and application.
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$300.0m
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
Casper is a memory-foam mattress retailer.
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$330.5m
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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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.
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$2.5m
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.
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$191.8m
Money raised
Zoe is a Boston and London-based company which builds software for tracking individuals' nutrition response patterns, as well as a mobile application for tracking COVID-19 symptoms.
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$119.0m
Money raised
Serve Robotics is a developer of autonomous robotic vehicles intended for use in delivery, especially food delivery, in urban settings.
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$23.0m
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
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.
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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
GrubMarket is a company supplying local fresh food online and offers delivers them to customers.
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$553.1m
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
Wolt is a company that provides an online food delivery service
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$1.5b
Money raised
Ynsect is a company that develops ingredients for aquaculture, pet food and fertilizer using insect protein.
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$382.3m
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
Snackpass is a technology company that develops solutions for ordering food for take-out from local restaurants.
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$93.5m
Money raised
Olio is a London-based sharing company working to solve the problem of food waste and hunger.
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$95.9m
Money raised
ZeroCater is a catering company providing office catering and snack services.
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$17.6m
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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Antera Therapeutics is an allergy prevention development company.
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$2.0m
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Faeth Therapeutics is a start-up that focuses on using nutrition and metabolism to fight cancer.
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$67.0m
Money raised
A restaurant chain serving organic salads and grain bowls.
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$522.0m
Money raised
Beta Hatch is an insect protein for farming company founded in 2015 by Virginia Emery.
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$41.3m
Money raised
Infarm is a developer of vertical farms designed for indoor growing.
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$801.9m
Money raised
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
Money raised
Nature's Fynd is a biotechnology company growing edible proteins founded in 2012.
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$851.0m
Money raised