UPSIDE Foods

FoodTech · Berkeley, US · upsidefoods.com

Cultivated (lab-grown) meat producer

Founders

Uma Valeti (India · ♂) — An India-trained Mayo Clinic cardiologist who saw cell-based regeneration in medicine and applied the same idea to growing meat from cells, co-founding Memphis Meats (later UPSIDE Foods) in 2015.
Nicholas Genovese (United States · ♂) — A stem-cell biologist who co-founded the company as Chief Science Officer to lead the science of cultivating meat from animal cells.
Will Clem (United States · ♂) — A tissue-engineering scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Memphis Meats to commercialize cultivated meat.

Shares the most investors with (number = shared investors):

Date	Round	Amount
Apr 2022	Series C UPSIDE Foods (formerly Memphis Meats), a US cultivated meat startup, raised a $400M Series C at over $1B valuation co-led by Temasek and the Abu Dhabi Growth Fund, with Bill Gates, Cargill and Tyson Foods participating.	$400M

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