Overview

The plant-based food market has been on the rise for several years, with more and more investors looking towards it. Investments in the plant-based industry reached $3.1 billion in 2020 – three times more than in any single year in its history. Meticulous Market Research predicts that the plant-based food market will grow at a CAGR of 11.9% from 2020 to 2027 to reach $74.2 billion by 2027.

The success of the industry leaders Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods has opened the doors for many new players into the plant-based startup scene. This week food-tech company NotCo achieved its target unicorn status by raising an astonishing$235 million in its latest funding round backed by Jeff Bezos.

At the same time, one of the world’s largest food providers continues to increase sales of dairy and meat-free foods and launch their lines. Ikea announced that 80 percent of its packaged food offerings and 50 percent of its restaurant meals would be plant-based by 2025. Within the next up to seven years, Unilever has set a new annual global sales target of $1.2 billion from plant-based meat and dairy.

We have gathered forty-two companies that are revolutionizing the plant-based food Industry. Now, let’s have a closer look at some of the rising stars on the list.

Name picks

Daring Foods

Founded by Ross Mackay and Eliott Kessas in Los Angeles, California, in 2018, Daring Foods produces 100% plant-based chicken that looks, cooks, and tastes just like its animal-based counterpart. The company’s products are dairy and egg-free and contain no palm oil, genetically modified organisms, hormones, or antibiotics. Daring Foods has recently raised $40,000,000 in Series B round, lead by the famous singer Drake and three other investors, totaling $48.8M in funding over three rounds.

Umiami

Umiami has completed a seed funding of €2.3 million with the support of Centrale Paris, AgroParisTech and the Technical University of Munich, and Umiami Technologies. The Paris-based food tech startup has invented a way to produce exclusively plant-based whole pieces of meat.

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We are the first company in the world capable of creating vegetable food matrices characterized by long aligned fibers and a thickness of up to 10 cm.

Tristan Maurel, CEO of Umiami

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Aleph Farms

Aleph Farms is a brainchild of the food company Strauss Group. The company was founded in Israel by the food engineer and biologist Didier Toubia. Aleph Farms produces lab-cultured meat from non-genetically engineered cells isolated from a cow. The company has received accolades for contribution to the global sustainability movement from the World Economic Forum, UNESCO, Netexplo Forum, and EIT Food. Aleph Farms has raised $236.4M in funding over five rounds, with the latest one of $105M raised on July 7, 2021, from a Series B round.

Nature’s Fynd

Nature’s Fynd grows Fy™, a nutritional fungi protein with origins in Yellowstone National Park. Packed with all twenty amino acids, including the 9 essential ones, Fy is a good source of fiber and also contains vitamins and minerals. The company uses a breakthrough fermentation method to grow Fy with a fraction of the water, land, and energy compared to processing traditional protein sources. Nature’s Fynd makes truly delicious meatless and dairy-free foods with Fy, their complete vegan protein, so they can nourish people and nurture the planet for generations to come. The company operates on NaturesFynd.com.

Hightlights

All three startups are operating on .com extension domains, the most generic and most common of all TLDs (top-level domains). There are only six companies on the list that have chosen a different extension.

Charts

25 out of 42 entries have secured exact brand match domains, making it easy for their clients, business partners, and investors to reach them.

Matching the domain name to the company’s brand name is essential for any business, especially startups, as it generates instant credibility, trust, and respect.

Domain Extension	Number of plant-based companies using it
.com	36
.co.uk	2
.co	1
.co.il	1
.st	1
.world	1

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