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

Timeline

April 29, 2021

Modern Meadow raises a $130,000,000 series C round.

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 Breakout Ventures, Collaborative Fund, Continental Grain Company, Horizons Ventures, ICONIQ Capital, Red Swan Ventures, Temasek Holdings and Tony Fadell.

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 Blackstone Group, Collaborative Fund, Horizons Ventures and Lee Barba.

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

Modern Meadow raises a $2,500,000 seed round from Horizons Ventures, ICONIQ Capital, Interplay Ventures, Red Swan Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Starlight Ventures and Ulu Ventures.

January 1, 2011

Founding of Modern Meadow

Modern Meadow is based out of Brooklyn, New York and was founded in 2011 by Andras Forgacs, Francoise Marga, Gabor Forgacs, and Karoly Jakab.

2011

Modern Meadow was founded by Andras Forgacs, Francoise Marga, Gabor Forgacs and Karoly Jakab.