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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.
- 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
Currently Operating in One Region
Press Mentions
January 22, 2020
Memphis Meats Raises $161 Million In Funding, Aims To Bring Cell-Based Products To Consumers For The First Time
Memphis Meats is on its way to being the first cell-based meat company to bring their product to market.
October 15, 2018
Would you eat slaughter-free meat?
There's a looming crisis over the world's appetite for meat. This chicken nugget may be the answer.
May 3, 2022
2022 World Changing Ideas Awards | Fast Company
See the 39 inspiring winners, and hundreds of honorees, of Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards.
April 21, 2022
UPSIDE Foods bites into $400M round to serve cultivated meat later this year
Upside Foods has privately raised $400 million from investors including the Abu Dhabi Growth Fund and Scottish fund manager Baillie Gifford. Pending regulatory review, the company’s chicken product...
March 30, 2022
How Daniel Epstein Of Unreasonable Group Is Helping To Address The Growing Challenge Of Food…
An Interview With Martita Mestey
February 15, 2022
The New Secret Chicken Recipe? Animal Cells.
Here’s an early taste of the laboratory-grown meat that companies are racing to bring to market, and a look at the questions it raises about how we feed ourselves.
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