Alternative protein companies in California

Beyond Meat makes plant-based meat alternatives such as burgers, sausages, chicken strips, and ground beef. Beyond Meat was founded in 2009 by Ethan Brown and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Pembient uses advances in biotechnology to fabricate horn and other wildlife products to combat the threat to endangered species.

Impossible Foods is a plant-based meat company making meat and dairy products that are made to look and feel like animal products by manufacturing heme, the oxygen binding molecule found in blood, using engineered yeast grown in bioreactors.

Bolt Threads is a biotechnology company that makes high performance fabrics and materials using biology.

Perfect Day Foods (formerly Muufri) engineered yeast capable of producing the proteins found in cows milk. They use these proteins to make their own line of animal-free dairy products.

Protera is a biotechnology company that works with protein engineering to address challenges in food, agriculture, the environment, and human health.

New Wave Foods is a biotechnology company developing plant-based shellfish food products. The company is based out of San Francisco, California and was founded in 2015 by Dominique Barnes and Michelle Wolf.

Fifty Years is a venture capital seed fund based in San Francisco, California founded by Seth Bannon and Ela Madej in 2016 and focuses on investing in the impact technology market.

Finless Foods is a biotechnology company producing cultured marine animal food products through implementing cellular agriculture and manufacturing technologies.

Just, Inc. (formerly known as Hampton Creek) is a food technology company developing and selling plant based food products around the world.

Upside Foods is a San Francisco-based company making cultured meat products. The company was founded by Uma Valeti, Nicholas Genovese, and Will Clem.

Califia Farms makes plant-based dairy products (primarily almond based) such as plant-based milks, plant-based creamers, juices, and dairy-free probiotic yoghurts. The company was founded in 2010 by Greg Steltenpohl and is located in San Joaquin Valley, California.

A cellular agriculture company making fresh and frozen cultured seafood products.

Novozymes is a company that develops, manufactures, and markets enzymes for use in industrial processes, food manufacturing, materials production, and consumer products.

Geltor is a cellular agriculture company making essential proteins, such as collagen and gelatin, using microbes in their own bio-fermentation recombinant protein production facility.

The EVERY Company (formally Clara Foods) is a biotechnology company founded by two New Harvest community members David Anchel and Arturo Elizondo in 2014. The company is based out of San Francisco, California and manufactures animal- free proteins using using yeast bio-fermentation techniques fore use in food products.

Wild Earth is a biotechnology company using cellular agriculture to produce high-protein pet food.

Air Protein is a Berkeley-based biotechnology company producing protein with microorganisms that are fed carbon dioxide in a mission to replace animal agriculture.

SCiFi Foods (formerly Artemys Foods) is a company that makes and provides meat that is animal-free

Alpha Foods is a plant-based food company operating out of Glendale, California, that was founded in by Cole Orobetz and Loren Wallis in 2015.

Wild Type is a San Francisco based company producing meat products like salmon using cellular agriculture lab techniques.

The Cellular Agriculture Society (CAS) is an international non-profit organization seeking to support the development and commercialization of cellular agriculture and cell-based meat products and technologies.

Before the Butcher is a plant-based food company making meat alternatives located in Huntington Beach, California, and was founded in 2016.

Mission Barns is a clean meat company company is headquartered in Berkeley, California producing clean meat. The company was founded in March, 2018, by Eitan Fischer (former director of cellular agriculture of JUST, Inc) and David Bowman.

Prime Roots (formerly Terramino Foods) is a food company located in San Leandro, California, founded by Kimberlie Le and Joshua Nixon in 2017 producing a salmon meat substitute made from fungi.