Clara Foods is a biotechnology company launched by New Harvest — a donor backed cellular agriculture research institute — and 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 for use in food products.
Clara foods claims that their egg white products are superior to hen-born egg whites because their yeast fermentation process allows them to produce the same proteins found in natural egg white and manipulate the protein ratios present in egg whites — allowing them to engineer egg whites with different properties such as better ability to foam, act as an adhesive in gluten free products, or have specific nutritional properties.
On July 9, 2015 Clara Foods closed their seed funding round raising $1,750,000 and completed their time with IndieBio. Investors include: David Friedberg, Ali and Hadi Partovi, Scott Banister, and SOSV.
On April 8, 2016 Clara Foods announced raising $1,700,000 in their Series A funding round from SOSV.
Methods and compositions for egg white protein production
Pending
2014-11-11
Timeline
On April 8, 2016 Clara Foods announced raising $1,700,000 in their Series A funding round from SOSV.
On July 9, 2015 Clara Foods closed their seed funding round raising $1,750,000 and completed their time with IndieBio. Investors include: David Friedberg, Ali and Hadi Partovi, Scott Banister, and SOSV.
The company was founded in 2014 by David Anchel and Arturo Elizondo.
Funding rounds
People
Arturo Elizondo
David Anchel
David Friedberg
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Hadi Partovi
Investor
Matias Mosse
Investor
Philippe Lavielle
Ramesh M
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Ryan Bethencourt
Investor
Scott and Cyan Banister
Investor
Stefano Bernardi
Investor
Wei Guo
Investor
Further reading
Alternative Protein Startups Receive Boost from Investor Coalition Worth $1.25tn - AgFunderNews
Louisa Burwood Taylor
Clara Foods — The Company We Launched Making Eggs Without Hens
Isha Datar
Clara Foods Cooks Up $1.7 Million In Funding To Make Egg Whites From Yeast Instead Of Chickens
Sarah Buhr
The new food: meet the startups racing to reinvent the meal
Damian Carrington
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Feeding The World With Biotech (A. Lee, M. Viel, A. Elizondo, A. Lorestani, A. Kopelyan) | DLD 18
January 26, 2018
New Harvest 2016: The Next Era of Food Fermentation
August 22, 2016
Reimagining the Egg White with Technology - Arturo Elizondo at Impact.tech SF
December, 2015