Alternative protein companies in the United States

Thermo Fisher Scientific is a public global healthcare distributor and multinational biotechnology company headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts and was founded in 2006 after the merger of Thermo Electron and Fisher Scientific.

Cargill Corporation is an international producer and distributor of agricultural products. William Wallace Cargill founded Cargill as a grain storage facility in 1865.

Tyson Foods is the second largest chicken, beef, and pork processor and marketer in the world. Tyson Foods was founded in 1931 by John W. Tyson in Springdale, Arkansas.

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.

Arzeda is a biotechnology and software company designing custom microorganisms for industrial applications through computational enzyme design, protein optimization, and metabolic engineering.

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.

Unilever is Anglo-Dutch multinational consumer goods company that is co-headquartered in London, England and Rotterdam, Netherlands, and was founded in 1930 by William Lever, James Lever, and Samuel van den Bergh.

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.

An Israeli startup company that is working to make sustainable "animal-free" cell-based meat products available at the local level by adapting the distributed manufacturing model

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.

108Labs is a cellular agriculture research and drug development company founded in 2013.

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.

Seattle Food Tech is a food manufacturing technology and production company producing plant-based meats. They make plant-based food and plant-based chicken nuggets.

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.

Elmhurst is a plant-based food and beverage company founded in 2017.