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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
Press Mentions
November 16, 2022
A Lab-Grown Meat Startup Gets the FDA’s Stamp of Approval
The US regulatory body has signed off on Upside Foods’ cultivated meat—but the company is still figuring out how to make enough of it to sell.
Read on WIRED UK »
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.
Read on BBC News »
March 9, 2023
Eating meat without slaughtering animals may be in our future
By Kristen Rogers, CNN
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January 25, 2023
These 12 Startups Raised the Largest US Funding Rounds of 2022
Upside Food: $400MM
Read on AlleyWatch »
November 18, 2022
Ba-kawk! UPSIDE Foods Pens Open Letter to Chickens to Mark Historic US FDA "Green Light" for Cultivated Meat
To commemorate a groundbreaking regulatory milestone for UPSIDE Foods and for the future of food, UPSIDE Foods founder and CEO Uma Valeti published an open letter in today's New York Times to those...
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November 16, 2022
Lab-grown meat cleared for human consumption by U.S. regulator
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the first time cleared a meat product grown from animal cells for human consumption, the agency announced on Wednesday.
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