69 Best Forest Product Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Forest Product Startups

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There are 740 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $14.6b. The average funding per company in this subset is $211.5m.

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$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.

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6

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$95.0m

Money raised

ClimaCell is a Boston-based weather intelligence platform for automated weather predictions.

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11

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$1.9b

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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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$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.

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$38.0m

Money raised

Salesken.ai is a conversational intelligence platform.

7

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$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.

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5

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$18.0m

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Krisp is a technology company developing an AI-powered app designed to eliminate background noise during online communications.

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$121.0m

Money raised

A company offering an email client designed to be the fastest email experience. The company was founded by Conrad Irwin, Rahul Vohra, and Vivek Sodera in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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8

Funding Rounds

$741.4m

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Desktop Metal is a Burlington, Massachusetts-based metal 3D printing company founded in 2015 by Ric Fulop, Jonah Myerberg, and Ely Sachs.

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9

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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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$12.5m

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A bio-based chemical manufacturer focusing on human and animal nutrition, health, and materials markets.

5

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$433.0m

Money raised

Postman is a San Francisco-based software company offering an API development environment.

4

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$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

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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.

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4

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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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4

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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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$335.0m

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Notion is a software company offering a platform for writing, planning, and organizing note-taking.

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$7.0m

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Polarity is a computer software company. It has developed a system that analyzes the contents of users'​ computer screens and gives them real-time access to information without affecting their existing workflow.

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9

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$462.2m

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Algolia is a company designing and building search and discovery API for websites and mobile apps. It participated in the W14 cohort of Y Combinator.

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$200.0m

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A software company making a workplace email communication platform for remote and office work.

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4

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$295.0m

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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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$281.0m

Money raised

Salt Security is a Palo Alto, California-based protection platform for APIs and associated API integrations.

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5

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$41.6m

Money raised

SignalWire is a developer of an API and products platform.

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5

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$104.5m

Money raised

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

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7

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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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9

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$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.

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6

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$330.5m

Money raised

Casper is a memory-foam mattress retailer.

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5

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$490.0m

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Grammarly is a web application for checking spelling, grammar, and plagiarism.

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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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$159.5m

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Evernote is a company offering notetaking software and online service founded in 2008 by Stepan Pachikov.

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$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.

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$162.5m

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A company offering a communications platform allows developers to quickly build features that connect to every email, calendar, and contacts provider in the world.

3

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$400.0k

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Buffer is a company founded by Joel Gascoigne, Leo Widrich and Tom Moor.

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5

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$373.0m

Money raised

Gupshup is an AI-powered messaging platform that integrates with communication software and protocols for commerce, marketing, and support applications.

5

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$167.6m

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Kong (formerly Mashape) is a San Francisco-based company that offers open source microservice API gateway.

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$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.

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$25.0m

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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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$9.4m

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Datatron is an artificial Intelligence company providing machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science models for user models.

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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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$500.0k

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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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$20.4m

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Stoplight is an Austin, Texas based company developing an API design and documentation platform.

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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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$490.0k

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One Planet Pizza is a company making plant-based pizza founded in 2016.

6

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$120.0m

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Daily Harvest is a New York City-based company founded in 2015 by Rachel Drori.

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5

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$1.4b

Money raised

A project management platform with customization tailored to each individual project and team.

4

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$84.5m

Money raised

SCiFi Foods (formerly Artemys Foods) is a company that makes and provides meat that is animal-free

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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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4

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$45.0m

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Almanac is a San Francisco-based cloud-based knowledge platform for professionals to create, fork, and share open-source work documents.

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$973.2m

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Thumbtack is a company operating an online platform for finding and hiring workers for particular tasks.

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$31.4m

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Company developing collaboration platform for teams to create and maintain design system documentation

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$82.7m

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

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$258.3m

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An artificial Intelligence company making a business intelligence platform.

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$3.9m

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StatusToday is an artificial Intelligence company for Employee Behavioral Analytics founded in 2015 by Ankur Modi.

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$25.0m

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SmartBear Software is a company developing tools for various software development and API management tasks.

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$21.5k

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Web search engine that uses profits to plant trees

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5

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$81.1m

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Meati Foods is a Colorado-based alternative meat company.

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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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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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$327.0m

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FalconX is a blockchain, cryptocurrency, and fintech-focused brokerage and digital asset trading platform.

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$4.6m

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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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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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$980.0k

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KonoLabs is a company with an artificially intelligent scheduling assistant for enterprises, founded by Jung-hee Ryu, YJ Min and Jaehoon Choi.

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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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$851.0m

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

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$200.0k

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GoodDot is a plant-based protein manufacturer and food technology company operating out of Udaipur, India. The company was founded in 2016 by Abhishek Sinha, Stephanie Downs, Deepak Parihar, Taranum Bhatia, and Shruti Sonali.

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$1.0m

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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.

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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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$32.5m

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Fortify is a Boston-based 3D printing company that has the goal to enable fabrication of composites with optimized microstructures

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$496.0m

Money raised

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