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| About the Team | Team | Tech Type | Country | Country flag | Website |
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| Air Protein | Plant-Based | United States | airprotein.com | ||
| At Air Protein, we recognize the way we currently produce food is unsustainable; to feed 10 billion people by 2050, food production must increase by 70%. We understand that we must create alternatives that address the breaking point we’ve reached with greenhouse gases and help reverse climate change; that we must reduce or eliminate our dependency on animal protein and arable land and stop deforestation. We believe climate change and food scarcity can be solved by reimagining food creation. We didn’t try to reinvent the process, but rather, created an entirely new one - making meat from air. As such, we exist to lead the world’s transformation from animal agriculture to meat made from air to feed us sustainably, help reverse climate change and allow for the replenishment of the planet’s resources. | |||||
| Aqua Cultured Foods | Plant-Based | United States | aquaculturedfoods.com | ||
| Aqua Cultured Foods is an innovative food tech startup developing the world’s first whole-muscle cut seafood alternatives through microbial fermentation. We created novel technology that produces a sustainable, complete protein source using only a fraction of the resources required by traditional aquaculture. As an R&D company with a focus on product commercialization, we have a unique position in the burgeoning alt-seafood market as well as within the fermentation sector. While several companies are using fermentation to produce protein, our method is substantially different, and the strain of fungi is uniquely suited to making seafood alternatives. Our methods deliver a realistic texture, taste, and appearance, which has been called a "holy grail" in alt-protein. Because it is a whole, unprocessed food, it is highly nutritious, comparable to the fish and shellfish it replaces. | |||||
| CELL AG TECH | Cell-Based | Canada | cellagtech.com | ||
| CELL AG TECH is one of the few cellular agriculture companies in the world focused on seafood and the only company of its kind in Canada. Our mission is to become a global leader in the production of sustainable cell-cultured seafood. Our initial focus is on lean white fish, and our ultimate goal is to develop, manufacture and commercialize cell-cultured fish filets that are price competitive, cruelty-free, sustainable, environmentally friendly, healthy, widely available, and taste great. With our founder’s business and entrepreneurial acumen, the scientific expertise of our team, and our network of reputable collaborators, we are well positioned to bring cell-cultured seafood products to the world and to become a key player in the future of seafood. Visit www.cellagtech.com and follow @cellagtech on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/company/cellagtech) | |||||
| CellX | Cell-Based | China | cellx.tech | ||
| CellX is a cellular agriculture startup, working to bring cultivated meat products to consumers in China and around the world. We strive to make nutritious and tasty food for all without sacrificing the health of animals, humans, and the earth. We aim to achieve this by pushing the frontier of cellular agriculture and pioneering the food innovation of our time. Started in 2020, CellX has quickly expanded to a team of 25+ and is based in Shanghai, China. | |||||
| Demolish Foods | Plant-Based | India | demolishfoods.com | ||
| Our mission is to make the world a kinder, healthier and more sustainable place by replacing whole-cut meats with delicious and nutritious plant-based alternatives using novel food technologies. We believe that texture is the biggest barrier that needs to be overcome for enabling the large-scale adoption of plant-based meat. Our first target is chicken breasts, and we will expand to other meats thereafter. | |||||
| DiverseFarm - Structured Meat | Cell-Based | Japan | en.diversefarm.com | ||
| DiverseFarm is a startup company developing ""Structured Meat."" We are a unique team. Co-Funders are Biotech entrepreneur and Michelin starred top chef. Our technology ""Net Mold"" was originally developed for medical artificial organs, and we already are able to make 100% cellular structured meat with animal cells. Our mission is to ""Save the Earth and daily life with Cultured Meat"". We respect existing farmers and seek ways to prosper together. | |||||
| ENOUGH - NO LIMITS | Plant-Based | United Kingdom | enough-food.com | ||
| ENOUGH–NO LIMIT’s vision is to produce millions of tons of Vegan Chicken Breasts, made in the simplest, most cost- and resource-efficient manner, so that it can be replicated the world over to provide >1bn people with delicious, nutritious, sustainable, affordable protein within 10 years. We are building from a solid foundation. Using nature's most efficient protein producer (fungi), we have already developed a solution so efficient that we derive more protein than the resources that we put in: we create more from less. Now, our ambition is to create even more with even less. By optimising resource efficiency, further enhancing our continuous processing capability, and capitalising on the excellent taste, strong nutritional credentials and natural textural advantages of our ABUNDA® mycoprotein. Ultimately, we see ENOUGH becoming a large-scale bulk supplier of Vegan Chicken. | |||||
| Eternal | Plant-Based | Argentina | eternal.bio | ||
| Eternal is a biotechnology company. Our first market-ready product released is Mycofood: a versatile protein ingredient with neutral flavour and remarkable sustainability and nutritional credentials. It’s 100% cruelty-free, non-GMO, and more sustainable than plant-based protein products. Right now, food producers are re-evaluating what the future of food will look like; they are thinking in the next generations because their consumers are thinking in the next generations, and they are deeply concerned about sustainability. Because Mycofood grows faster, emits less CO2, and uses less water than traditional and alternative protein sources, it allows food manufacturers to create healthier versions of the products their customers know and love without increasing their costs or having an impact on the planet. We use AI, computer vision, and patented techniques to optimize and tailor the biomass we produce to better fit the needs of each customer - be that more texture, elasticity, or simply a flavourless high-protein additive. We hope, with the help of food manufacturers, to feed the world in a more conscious and sustainable way. | |||||
| GOOD Meat | Cell-Based | United States | goodmeat.co | ||
| GOOD Meat is a division of Eat Just, a food technology company with a mission to build a healthier, safer and more sustainable food system in our lifetimes. Our talented scientists, product developers and chefs created the world’s first-to-market meat made from animal cells instead of slaughtered livestock. GOOD Meat's history-making regulatory approval and launch in Singapore was heralded as one of 2020's top scientific breakthroughs by The Guardian, Vox and WIRED and was named among Fast Company's "World Changing Ideas." For more information on GOOD Meat, visit http://goodmeat.co. | |||||
| IntegriCulture | Cell-Based | Japan | integriculture.jp | ||
| Some of the modern issues associated with animal agriculture include unsustainably large environmental footprint, the resulting climate change and food insecurity, and public health hazard. IntegriCulture Inc., is a cellular agriculture startup in Tokyo, developing a general-purpose large-scale cell culture technology, the ""CulNet System"" that enables our client to produce cell-based products, including meat, fur, organ, cosmetics and other animal-derived materials. We offer this technology to institutions of all sizes in all sectors, including food and non-food, for anyone who wants to produce animal-derived products by cellular agriculture. This way, we are enabling a transition from animal agriculture to cellular agriculture, without creating another monopoly. The initiatives on how we use cellular agriculture technology will be in people’s hands with our universally accessible infrastructure. | |||||
| Kuleana | Plant-Based | United States | kuleana.co | ||
| Aloha. We are Kuleana, and we are reimagining seafood. We fuse imaginative food science with earthly reverence to create 100% plant-based, sashimi-grade, ready-to-eat seafood. Oceanic agriculture has been quietly robbing Earth's natural resources. Today, Bluefin Tuna populations are 3% of what they were in the 70's. That's a 97% decline over the course of 50 years. There’s lots to say about unsustainable fishing practices that are systemically damaging our aquatic ecosystem and the insidious volume of greenhouse gas emitted by the fishing industry (it’s more than aviation), but why not go a step further and do something about it? That's the question we asked ourselves at Kuleana, and in doing so, we've begun charting a new course for our food system. Kuleana makes seafood from plants. We take everything we love about the traditional stuff – from nutrition, to taste, to texture – and skip the mercury, microplastics, and planetary strain. It's next-generation seafood that is good for the planet and great for the palate. | |||||
| Meati Foods | Plant-Based | United States | meati.com | ||
| Our mission is to develop sustainable, nutritious, and universally accessible foods that can meet the combined challenges of climate change, population increases, and socioeconomic inequality. Our product mission to meet these nutritional values and fibrous texture are met strictly through processing instead of adding additional ingredients to mimic that of meat, as compared to other protein alternatives. Due to Meati’s unique value proposition, we believe that Meati can be a product for anyone seeking a healthy and tasty alternative protein. | |||||
| MeatOurFuture | Cell-Based | South Africa | meatourfuture.org | ||
| MeatOurFuture is a public/private partnership between Mogale Meat Co, CryoWild, UKZN and TUT. Our team's primary base is Pretoria, South Africa. This partnership brings together a wealth of expertise in wildlife biobanking, stem cell research, food science and bioprocess engineering, necessary to play a significant role in feeding the next billion people. Based in Africa we understand the need to develop hi-tech food solutions to feed a growing population while at the same time conserving natural habitat to the benefit of its people, animals and the planet. | |||||
| MyoWorks | Cell-Based | India | myoworks.in | ||
| In a world where livestock farming is responsible for 18% of all anthropogenic greenhouse emissions and 26% of Earth’s ice-free surface, the time is now for us to start thinking of a systemic change to our eating habits. Cultivated Meat is big leap forward and would help to significantly reduce our water and land consumption while still keeping up with the ever-growing demand for meat. MyoWorks aims to create an eco-system of ancillary products that will facilitate any cultivated-meat entrepreneur’s vision to replace real meat products with cultivated meat. | |||||
| New School Foods | Plant-Based | Canada | newschoolfoods.co | ||
| New School Foods is a mission-driven company focused on accelerating the transition to a kinder, healthier, alt-protein food system. Using plant-based ingredients & our proprietary production & scaffolding technologies, we create zero-compromise seafood alternatives for the average consumer. Our whole-muscle, plant-based filets look, cook, taste and flake just like fish! | |||||
| Novel Farms | Cell-Based | United States | novelfarms.co | ||
| Novel Farms is a food-tech company based in Berkeley (California, USA) dedicated to craft whole cuts of premium cell-based meat delicacies and bring culinary excellence and sustainability into the future of food. By cultivating meat from outstanding animal breeds, they seek to captivate the palates of meat lovers while satisfying environmentally-conscious eaters. | |||||
| ProFillet | Plant-Based | Canada | smallfood.com terrabiofood.com | ||
| We are ProFillet, a diverse team composed by entrepreneurs, scientists, chefs and industry professionals with the common goal of providing “self-sustaining” food options through establishing a circular economy around food, targeting primarily the fish industry. Our vision is to contribute to finding sustainable, nutritious, and tasty alternatives to animal-based products by using underutilized ingredient sources like brewers' spent grains. We are using sustainable protein sources: spent grain protein, and algae fermentation using the sugar by-products from the protein conversion. All this to create a fish analogue that will revolutionize the way we think of food. | |||||
| Revo Foods | Plant-Based | Austria | revo-foods.com | ||
| Revo Foods develops plant-based seafood with 3D food printing. Our patent-pending technology allows us to fully recreate the structure and texture of seafood products such as salmon filets or tuna steaks. Our vision is to give all seafood lovers a healthy, sustainable and tasty alternative compared to the products of industrial fishery/aquaculture. Founded in 2020 in Vienna, Austria, the company already sells first products in selected partner restaurants and plans to expand to more countries in the upcoming years. | |||||
| SeaSpire | Plant-Based | New Zealand | seaspire.in | ||
| At SeaSpire, we believe an equitable future of our food systems can only be ensured by clean-tech innovation. Our unique vision is to reduce the disparity between rising demand for sustainable seafood and depleting marine ecosystem simply by taking out less from the ocean, dumping back even lesser waste-streams and substituting the gap with healthy alternatives. Eventually, to decrease the food waste and environmental dangers associated with the commercial fishing activities. By reducing the waste generated from seafood supply-chains, there will be a greater efficiency to food consumption and by having an alternative source to conventional seafood, the ecosystem will improve where the desired marine stocks are depleting. Our solution uses novel technologies like 3D printing and clean-label plant-based ingredients to develop a snapper fillet, which will be universally desired for different areas of the world. As our knowledge of simulating fish fillets with plant proteins matures our team plans to expand with other popular fish fillets all produced by 3D printing. Our team is aligned to contribute towards a cleaner and more resilient food production system by incorporating cutting-edge technology and consumer-centric approach. | |||||
| Tender Food | Plant-Based | United States | tenderfood.com | ||
| Tender Food is a food technology startup originating from Harvard University and focused on making alternative meats so delicious, nutritious, and affordable that eating animals will not make sense anymore. Through the development and scale of novel food production technologies, we will offer consumers a true sustainable alternative to animal agriculture. We are first tackling the problem of texture, an attribute of delicious meat that is still lacking in plant-based and cultured meat products today. | |||||
| TFTAK | Plant-Based | Estonia | tftak.eu | ||
| TFTAK is an R&D company aiming at development and introduction of innovative food and fermentation technologies. Biotechnology and food technology-based R&D are very closely related in TFTAK via the use of ‘omics’ methods and in-depth knowledge and understanding of molecules and their behavior. Development of different plant-based products is our passion! In TFTAK we are focused on Nordic crops like oat, pea and fava beans to develop advanced plant-based prototypes. Our aim is to reduce the addition of unsustainable and allergenic sources like soy and gluten. In our laboratory we use a broad range of different methods like extrusion, fermentation, enzymatical treatments combined with analytics, sensory methologies and consumer research. We are in love with plant-based products because we believe that they could be more delicious, nutritious, functional, and sustainable than the products offered on market at the moment. | |||||
| The Better Meat Co | Plant-Based | United States | bettermeat.co | ||
| The Better Meat Co.'s mission is to reduce humanity's footprint on the planet by empowering food companies to use fewer animals and more plants. | |||||
| The PlantEat | Plant-Based | South Korea | theplanteat.com | ||
| We aim to make new plant-based food products easily available for consumption to everyone through technological advancements. The PlantEat is a food-tech startup that designs, develops, produces, distributes and sells a variety of plant-based alternatives. It was established to address social issues such as the over-reliance on animal-based diet and global nutrition imbalances. The PlantEat aims to improve and create balanced eating habits to keep everyone healthy and fit. | |||||
| Umami Meats | Cell-Based | Singapore | umamimeats.com | ||
| Umami Meats is developing delicious, sustainable, affordable cell-cultured seafood that can meet global demand for seafood without sacrificing animals, our oceans, or our planet. Our cell-cultured seafood is based on our low-cost, serum-free growth media and our novel marine cell lines from high-impact species. We envision a future in which consumers select cell-cultured seafood not only because it is healthy and sustainable, but because it is the most delicious, nutritious, and affordable product available. | |||||
| Umiami | Plant-Based | France | umiami.com | ||
| Many plant-based meats outperform meat from environmental, health, and ethical perspectives. But for the industry to go mainstream, several challenges need to be overcome: taste, mouthfeel, diversity, and affordability. This is why we have decided to re-think the production process of meat analogs to offer tasty and affordable products. We currently focus our efforts on unprecedented products such as whole cuts of chicken breasts and cod fillets. Our mission is to create an alternative to any meat or fish fillet, that replicates all the desirable qualities of the target products, without compromising. To that extent, we have created a unique texturing technology, umisation, that enables us to craft large volumes of juicy, fibrous, and tasty plant-based products. | |||||
| Whiteboard Foods | Cell-Based | Canada | whiteboardfoods.com | ||
| A new generation of innovators and tastemakers are crafting a world of sustainable, ethical and cruelty-free food. At WHITEBOARD FOODS™ we provide the framework to bring these culinary creations to kitchen tables and restaurant menus around the world. We use the Aerocell™ and Hydrocell™ scaffolding technology to recreate a wide array of textures enabling us to produce complex full-cut meats and seafood. From the familiar to the fantastical, the future of food is only limited by imagination. | |||||
| Wildtype | Cell-Based | United States | wildtypefoods.com | ||
| Wildtype’s mission is to create the cleanest, most sustainable seafood on the planet. To us, the word “clean” entails seafood that is free of the contaminants that are sadly too common in our seafood supply, including mercury, microplastics, and antibiotics. The words “most sustainable” are a call to action to conserve biodiversity and create a source of seafood that lowers the carbon footprint of seafood production. At scale, this will mean regularly conducting lifecycle analyses to ensure greenhouse gas emissions and resource consumption are less intensive than conventional seafood production. | |||||