Modern Meadow

Modern Meadow is a biotechnology company using cellular agriculture and biofabrication to manufacture bioleather they call "Zoa" out of cultured animal free collagen mixed with natural and man made materials. They start with naturally occurring yeast strains and then use DNA-sequence editing to prompt the yeast cells to produce collagen, the main structural protein found in animal skin. The collagen is grown and assembled it into a fibrous sheet that can be processed, or can be combined with other materials, and tanned in order to be fashioned into various products. The company is based out of Nutley, New Jersey and was founded in 2011 by Andras Forgacs, Francoise Marga, Gabor Forgacs, and Karoly Jakab.

Funding

Seed

On December 28, 2013 Modern meadow raised a seed round of $2.5M including Sequoia Capital, Ulu Ventures, Starlight Ventures, Red Swan Ventures, Horizons Ventures, and others.

Series A

On June 19, 2014, Modern Meadow raised a Series A round of $10M. Investors included Horizon Ventures, Collaborative Fund, Black Point Group, and others.

Series B

In June 2016, Modern Meadow closed a $40M Series B funding round lead by Horizon Ventures and Iconiq Capital.

Patents

Description

Status

Link

Date

Biofabricated material containing collagen fibrils

Pending

https://patents.google.com/patent/CA2958015A1/en?

2/15/2016

Dried food products formed from cultured muscle cells

Pending

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160227831A1/en?

7/26/2012

Dried food products formed from cultured muscle cells

Granted

https://patents.google.com/patent/US9332779B2/en

2/5/2014

Edible and animal-product-free microcarriers for engineered meat

Granted

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20150079238A1/en?

9/13/2013

Engineered biological nerve graft, fabrication and application thereof

Granted

https://patents.google.com/patent/US8747880B2/en?

2/2/2010

Engineered comestible meat

Granted

https://patents.google.com/patent/US8703216B2/en

7/26/2011

Engineered leather and methods of manufacture thereof

Pending

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160097109A1/en?

3/28/2012

Engineered leather and methods of manufacture thereof

Pending

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160348078A1/en?

3/28/2012

Fabric from the cultured cells and a method for their preparation

Pending

https://patents.google.com/patent/KR20180006982A/en?

6/29/2015

Fiber reinforced tissue composites

Pending

https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2017053433A1/en?

9/21/2015

Method for making electrocompacted leather

Pending

https://patents.google.com/patent/EP3205754A1/en?

2/15/2016

Methods and devices for preparing and continuously printing multicellular cylinders onto biocompatible substrates

Pending

https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2014110250A1/en?

1/9/2013

Reinforced engineered biomaterials and methods of manufacture thereof

Pending

https://patents.google.com/patent/EP3215670A1/en?

11/3/2014

Self-Assembling Cell Aggregates and Methods of Making Engineered Tissue Using the Same

Granted

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20080070304A1/en?

2/24/2004

Self-assembling multicellular bodies and methods of producing a three-dimensional biological structure using the same

Pending

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20170152474A1/en?

6/24/2008

Spherical multicellular aggregates with endogenous extracellular matrix

Pending

https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2014039938A1/en?

9/7/2012

Timeline

September 1, 2017

Modern Meadow office moved

Modern Meadow moved it’s headquarters to the former Hoffman-LaRoche campus in Nutley, NJ.

June 28, 2016

Modern Meadow raises a $40,000,000 series B round from Horizons Ventures, ICONIQ Capital, Red Swan Ventures, Tony Fadell, Breakout Ventures, Temasek Holdings, Collaborative Fund and Continental Grain Company.

June 1, 2016

Series B funding

In June 2016, Modern Meadow closed a $40M Series B funding round lead by Horizon Ventures and Iconiq Capital.

June 19, 2014

Series A funding

On June 19, 2014, Modern Meadow raised a Series A round of $10M. Investors included Horizon Ventures, Collaborative Fund, Black Point Group, and others.

May 31, 2014

Modern Meadow raises a $11,000,000 series A round from Collaborative Fund, Lee Barba, Horizons Ventures and Blackstone Group.

December 28, 2013

Seed funding

On December 28, 2013 Modern meadow raised a seed round of $2.5M including Sequoia Capital, Ulu Ventures, Starlight Ventures, Red Swan Ventures, Horizons Ventures, and others.

December 28, 2013