NotCo

NotCo is a food science company using artificial intelligence to create novel plant-based meat and dairy alternatives. The company was founded by Matias Muchnick, Pablo Zamora, and Karim Pichara, and is located in Santiago, Chile.

Use of artificial intelligence

Giuseppe

NotCo is developing its own machine learning software technology called "Giuseppe", that learns to predict how to make plant-based ingredients tastes like animal-based products. NotCo is using Giuseppe to map similarities in plant protein and animal proteins using machine learning and genomics to better predict which plant-based ingredients will combine best to emulate animal proteins. Founder and CEO of NotCo, Matias Muchnick, believes that "If we can map the genome of a lentil or whatever bean there is, you could easily understand and predict whether that bean could emulate an animal-based protein." NotCo claims Giuseppe can sort through food consumer needs such as nutrition, sustainability, texture, flavor, and color, in ways which help create plant-based products.

Products

• Not Mayo
• Not Milk
• Not Yogurt
• Not Cheese

Funding

Convertible Note

On April 27, 2017, NotCo received a convertible note from SOSV and IndieBio. Details of the transaction remain undisclosed.

Seed 1

On April 27, 2017, NotCo completed their seed funding round. They raised an undisclosed amount of funding from SOSV and IndieBio.

Seed 2

On December 7, 2017, NotCo completed their second seed funding round. They raised an undisclosed amount of funding from SOSV and IndieBio.

Investment from Kaszek Ventures & SOSV

On July 28, 2018, NotCo announced it received a $3,000,000 investment from Kaszek Ventures and SOSV.