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
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
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Mosa MeatMosa Meat is a Dutch start-up company that makes and commercializes clean meat, meat made by growing animal cells directly rather than slaughtering animals.
Beyond MeatBeyond Meat makes plant-based meat alternatives such as burgers, sausages, chicken strips, and ground beef. Beyond Meat was founded in 2009 by Ethan Brown and is based in Los Angeles, California.
GeltorGeltor is a cellular agriculture company making essential proteins, such as collagen and gelatin, using microbes in their own bio-fermentation recombinant protein production facility.
Sunfed MeatsSunfed Meats is a company located in New Zealand making plant-based meat substitutes primarily out of pea proteins. Sunfed's Chicken Free Chicken was the companies first pea protein based product to be sold on the market; with double the protein of chicken and triple the iron of beef.- Show More
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