Best Alternative Protein Fermentation Ingredients Companies

Calysta is a company focused on cellular agriculture within the food and feed industry. The company's main service is the production of sustainable protein ingredients through a patented fermentation process that doesn't require arable land, plant, or animal products. These protein products are primarily sold to the fish and livestock sector, pet industry, and food ingredient market. It was founded in 2011 and is based in San Mateo, California.

MycoTechnology is a Food Technology company that has created a new process using gourmet fungi that transforms agricultural products through fermentation to improve taste, value, and health. The company's MycoSmooth process is natural, leveraging fungi to remove bitterness, enhance nutraceutical values, reduce/eliminate mycotoxins, improve the taste, and solve the cost of bitterness. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Aurora, Colorado.

Motif FoodWorks develops ingredients for enhancing and transforming plant-based foods. It offers products including taste and texture ingredients that mimic animal tissues, umami flavors, appearance, and aromas of meat. The company was formerly known as Motif Ingredients. Motif FoodWorks was founded in 2019 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Arkeon Biotechnologies provides biotechnologies services. It offers a nutritious, and ethical food system possible. Its proprietary technology through archaea microorganisms naturally produces all the building blocks of proteins in only one fermentation. The company process converts CO2 directly into amino acids and functional peptides for the food industry. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Tulln, Austria.

Chunk Foods is a plant-based alternative protein that mimics the texture and taste of meat, steak, pork, lamb, and poultry. It develops a technology that combines plant-based ingredients and fermentation to develop plant-based meat. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Eternal develops a protein food ingredient based on fungi to replace or bring alternatives to animal-based proteins. It uses artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision to improve fungi fermentation techniques. The company was formerly known as Kernel Mycofoods. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Fermelanta develops and produces rare plant-based ingredients through microbial fermentation. It produces raw materials for medicines, cosmetics, health foods, or any other chemicals. Also develops cell platforms to produce plant secondary metabolites that are synthesized via primary metabolites such as amino acids. The company was founded in 2022 and is based in Ishikawa, Japan.

Geltor designs and makes high-performance protein products for wellness-focused consumer packaged goods (CPG) businesses. The company's protein manufacturing platform combines synthetic biology, materials science, and computational tools to engineer materials that are better for the planet. Geltor's commercial partners build protein-dependent products including cosmetics, food, and textiles. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Leandro, California.

Mycorena develops fungi technology to provide food ingredients. Its flagship product Promyc is a proprietary mycoprotein ingredient. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Nature’s Fynd operates as a food technology com­pa­ny. It develops microbe-based proteins to substitute meat and dairy products. Nature’s Fynd was formerly known as Sustainable Bioproducts. It was founded in 2012 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Paleo is a food ingredient company that develops meat and fish proteins through precision fermentation. It develops meat and fish proteins that are intended to be used as ingredients in plant-based meat and fish products. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Leuven, Belgium.

Planetary is a company focused on building critical infrastructure and intellectual property to power the fermentation-based bioeconomy. The company's main services include providing industrial scale upstream and downstream manufacturing opportunities to fermentation front-runners, and producing mycoprotein as a B2B food ingredient. Planetary primarily sells to the food industry. It is based in Switzerland.

Shiru operates as an ingredient company to identify and create functional, sustainable ingredients for the plant-based industry. It uses machine learning, bioinformatics, and precision fermentation to develop functional food ingredients to enable and promote sustainable food production. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Alameda, California.

The Better Meat Co. specializes in producing plant-based protein and mycoproteins. The company utilizes mycelium fermentation to create mycoprotein ingredients for food companies. It was founded in 2018 and is based in West Sacramento, California.

The EVERY Company manufactures and formulates animal-free proteins. It produces proteins using fermentation technology. The company was formerly known as Clara Foods. It was founded in 2014 and is based in South San Francisco, California.