Companies in the Alternative proteins industry

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.

Danone is a multinational food-products corporation founded in 2030 by Isaac Carasso.

Nestlé is the world's largest food and beverage company. It was founded in 1866 by Henri Nestlé, and is headquartered in Vaud, Switzerland.

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.

A bio-based chemical manufacturer focusing on human and animal nutrition, health, and materials markets.

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.

Aleph Farms is an Israeli cellular agriculture start-up founded by Didier Toubia and Shulamit Levenberg in 2017 developing technologies for culturing meat products into 3D structures.

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.

Carrefour is a French multinational retail and wholesaling corporation.

Planet A Foods is a cocoa-free chocolate maker founded in 2021 by Sara Marquart.

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