Upside Foods Stock
Upside Foods is a cultured meat company that aims to produce pork and beef without the animal.
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EquityZen's Take: The Real Fake Meat King
Time to brush off your 7th grade science books. Cells are the basic structural, functional, and biological unit of all known organisms. They are often called the "building blocks of life.” Organisms, such as plants and animals, wouldn’t exist without these cells.
Still following? That means that you need to sacrifice animals, which have cells, in order to have meat, right? Not necessarily. A company called Memphis Meats developed a way to create “clean meat” that doesn’t harm animals. Despite its name, the company is based out of Berkeley, CA.
Memphis Meats begins the process of creating its lab-grown meat by harvesting meat cells from livestock. The livestock isn’t killed in the process so consumers can feel good about what they’re eating. These cells are then fed nutrients so they can grow over a period of four to six weeks. Memphis Meats has compared the process to that of brewery, as opposed to a lab.
So how does lab-grown meat taste? Memphis Meats says “Most importantly, our meat is delicious! It's real meat, and life-long meat eaters immediately recognize it and enjoy it.” The company has already concocted meatballs, beef fajitas, as well as chicken and duck.
"It is thrilling to introduce the first chicken and duck that didn't require raising animals," Memphis Meats CEO Uma Valeti said. "This is a historic moment for the clean-meat movement.”
Investors
Virgin Group
OneWeb, Virgin Hyperloop One, Upside Foods, Blockchain.com, Capsule, Ring, Rescale, BitPay, Tradesy, Codecademy
Funding History
August 2017 | $4.9M |
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August 2017 | $17.0M |
January 2020 | $11.2M |
January 2020 | $175M |
April 2022 | $388M |
April 2022 | $12.0M |
Management
Co-Founder
Uma Valeti
Business Analyst
David Kay
CSO & Co-founder
Nicholas Genovese
Press
foodprocessing - Feb, 21 2024
Upside Foods Halts Plan for New Illinois Cultivated Meat Plantnationalgeographic - Feb, 19 2024
What exactly is lab-grown meat? Here's what you need to know.chicagoconstructionnews - Feb, 19 2024
UPSIDE Foods to open $141 million cultivated meat production plant in Glenviewcen - Feb, 19 2024
Inside the effort to cut the cost of cultivated meatnews - Feb, 16 2024
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