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Upside Foods

Developing a way to produce real meat from animal cells, without the need to feed, breed, and slaughter actual animals.

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Uma Valeti

CEO + Cofounder at Upside Foods

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Employees 101–200
Headquarters Berkeley, California, United States
Our company was founded in 2015 on the belief that we shouldn't have to choose between the meat we love and a thriving planet.

We’ve already produced many of the world’s cultured meat breakthroughs:
  • World’s first cultured beef meatball in 2016
  • World’s first cultured chicken & duck in 2017
  • Largest Series B funding round to date in the category in 2020

But the biggest milestone is still to come: bringing cultivated meat to consumers. Our pilot plant facility is our first step towards commercial-scale production. Working alongside our regulatory partners, we hope to share our first products with consumers by the end of 2021. The US is going to be our first market, but our ambitions are global.

Press Mentions

October 10, 2024

SCOPE & POTENTIAL OF LAB-GROWN MEAT OR CULTURED OR SYNTHETHETIC MEAT

Read on Pashudhan Prahree »

September 22, 2024

Two firms say lab-grown chicken meat gets final approval - American Health Channel

Read on American Health Channel »

September 21, 2024

Our Taste for Flesh Has Exhausted the Earth

Read on The New York Times »

August 30, 2024

Cultivated meat startup Upside Foods initiates a fresh round of layoffs

Read on asldifei.com »

August 13, 2024

‘Lab-grown’ meat maker files lawsuit against Florida ban

Read on Toronto Star »

August 2, 2024

Lab-Grown Meat Innovator Throws Miami Tasting Event Amid Florida's New Ban - S.W. Florida Daily News

Read on S.W. Florida Daily News »

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