New Food’s startups

Being a startup is and hard life, but there’re many opportunities and ideas to develop by people with any ability. It doesn’t exist only technology, of course, the main mission of food industry is health and substainability and technology is a valid help to reach these goals.

In this newsletter I’m going to show you some food startup, a little series of data sheets I’m going to enrich in the Data Sheet dedicated next newsletters.

Meatable

It’s a Dutch company that produces meat without harm for animals; they explain how in their web site: they use a cell from cows and pigs and replicate it in laboratory to obtain meat food. Founded in 2018, it was funded with Series A 172,8 M$. The last one, 47 M$ at March 2021, was given from a group of investors, (from Crunchbase):

• DSM Ventures (Netherlands) is a company investing in animal and human health & nutrition and biomed.
• Jeffrey Leiden is the Executive Chairman of Vertex Pharmaceuticals since April 2020. Previously he served as CEO and President since February 2012, and has served as a member of Vertex’s board of directors since 2009.
• Rick Klausner is an Individual Angel Investor
• Section 32 (San Diego, CA) is a venture capital fund that invests at the cutting edge of technology, healthcare, and life sciences