Finless Foods is a biotechnology company founded in March 2017 and is located in San Francisco, California. The company produces cultured in-vitro marine animal food products through combining cellular agriculture and manufacturing technologies. Seafood products produced by Finless Foods are not wild caught, or fish farmed. Their products are grown from living cells extracted from a marine animal of choice. The extracted living cells put into a supportive growth environment and grown to resemble a particular shape such as a fish fillet. The company claims that their products look, taste, and feel like real seafood — on a cellular level their products are real seafood.
Finless Foods is working on creating cultured bluefin tuna meat. In September 2017, Finless Foods produced their first pound bluefin tuna meat for approximately $19,000. In December 2017, Finless foods claimed to have reduced their production cost of one pound of bluefin tuna meet in half. The company is hoping to produce cultured bluefin tuna for the same price as bluefin tuna is selling for on the market by the end of 2019.
On March 28th 2017, Finless Foods received an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Indie Bio, and SOSV.
Timeline
Total Raised: $3,500,000
Lead Investor: Draper Associates
Investors: Softmatter VC, Blue Horizon, Babel Ventures
On March 28th 2017, Finless Foods received an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Indie Bio, and SOSV.
Finless Foods is a biotechnology company that was founded in March 2017.
Funding rounds
People
Brian Wyrwas
Founder & CSO
Jihyun Kim
Senior scientist
Mike Selden
Founder & CEO
Torin Yeager
Tissue engineer
Further reading
Cultured fish co Finless Foods aims to achieve price parity with Bluefin tuna by the end of 2019
Elaine Watson
Finless Foods: Pollution-Free Fish, Thanks to Biotech - IndieBio
Kayla Liederbach
The (finless) future of fish production
Rob Fletcher
Web
The Advantages of Test-Tube Tuna
Corby Kummer
The Secret Sauce of Test-Tube Fish - NEO.LIFE - Medium
Corby Kummer
Web
Tune in to IndieBio Accelerator’s Demo Day today
Neesha Tambe
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Disrupter League E25: How Finless Foods Will Save Our Oceans
March 12, 2017
E783: Finless Foods clean fish biotech to address scarcity of healthy, affordable seafood
December 8th, 2017
Finless Foods CEO Mike Selden spoke about his company's work in cell agriculture
February 2, 2018
Making sustinable, lab-grown fish meat a reality | Finless Foods | HT Summit 2017
March 8, 2018