Stray Dog Capital is a venture capital firm operating out of Leawood, Kansas investing in companies that shift business away from an animal-based economy. Chuck Laue and Jennifer Laue founded Stray Dog Capital in 2009 with the goal of supporting the replacement of animal products with non-animal, plant based, and clean meat products. Notable companies that have received funding from Stray Dog Capital include: Aleph Farms, Beyond Meat, Geltor, Good Catch Foods, Memphis Meats, Mosa Meat, and Ocean Hugger Foods.
Timeline
Funded Companies
Good Catch Foods makes 100% plant-based seafood alternatives that are gluten, dairy, and GMO free. Good Catch Foods offers three fresh fish-free tuna products; naked in water, Mediterranean, and olive and herb. They also offer frozen seafood alternatives such as crab-free cakes, fish-free sliders, and fish-free burgers.
Geltor is a cellular agriculture company making essential proteins, such as collagen and gelatin, using microbes in their own bio-fermentation recombinant protein production facility.
SuperMeat is an Israeli biotechnology company, founded on December 15, 2015. SuperMeat is working to develop chicken meat products cultured from extracted chicken cells.
A biotechnology company using cellular agriculture to produce high-protein pet food.
A cellular agriculture company making fresh and frozen cultured seafood products.
People
Chuck Laue
Co-founder
Jennifer Laue
Co-founder
Lisa Feria
CEO
Macy Marriott
Analyst
Further reading
Announcing the Animal-Free Wool Prize with PETA, Stella McCartney, and Stray Dog Capital
Daniel Grushkin
Web
Investing in Good Food with Stray Dog Capital CEO Lisa
Mary Allen
Web
The CEO Funding the Alt-Meat Market
Zara Stone
Web
Why This Vegan Female CEO is Investing in a Plant-Based Future
Kat Smith
Web
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
Companion Project
Eat Your Coffee
Emulate
Fig Food Company
Good Seed Burger
Kite Hill
Lighter
Meta Burger
No Evil Foods
Nutpods
Nutriati
Purple Carrot
Sirabella's
