Providing Strategic Support to Companies

We work with both start-up and established companies to ensure marketplace success for products that are disrupting the current system.

Fostering the Next Generation of Innovators

We connect food scientists, students, culinary experts, and entrepreneurs with opportunities in the academic and nonprofit sectors.

Educating Institutions

We educate grant-making institutions, corporations, and governmental bodies about plant-based and clean meat R&D as a critical component of endeavors related to sustainability, climate change, and global health.

Promoting Plant-Based Products

We work with restaurants, grocery stores, and foodservice companies to increase availability of the best plant-based options on menus, in grocery stores, and in cafeterias.

“Remaking meat is one sector of the food industry that is ripe for innovation and growth.”

Bill Gates
Founder of Microsoft

"I believe that in 30 years or so we will no longer need to kill any animals and that all meat will either be clean or plant-based, taste the same, and also be much healthier for everyone."

Richard Branson
Founder of Virgin Group

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Let's Meet to Create the Future of Meat!

The Good Food Institute’s inaugural conference will convene leading global scientists, policymakers, investors, entrepreneurs, and companies, in order to explore the vast potential for plant-based and clean meat innovations to transform our global food system.

BlueNalu Sets Sail with $4.5M in Seed Investment

New Crop Capital led the round with a diverse coalition of 25 venture organizations and individuals from around the world. This is one of the largest seed round investments in a clean meat company to date.

How a Cardiologist is Using Meat to Save More Lives

Memphis Meats Founder and Chief Visionary Dr. Uma Valeti is radically devoted to inviting consumers into the process to see how their meat is created. Dr. Valeti speaks about his path to clean meat entrepreneurship and about Memphis Meat’s development and strategy.

Investing in Good Food with Stray Dog Capital CEO Lisa Feria

At GFI, we’re focused on using markets to build a better food system. So naturally, we’re fangirling (and fanboying) over Lisa Feria, who is accelerating the plant-based and clean meat sectors as CEO of Stray Dog Capital. Lisa gave us the inside perspective on how to land funding from a mission-driven VC.

Good Catch Reels In $8.7M in Series A Funding

Plant-based seafood company Good Catch closed a series A funding round of $8.7 million. Founded by New Crop Capital, conscious agency BeyondBrands, and The Good Food Institute, Good Catch will bring fish-free tuna and crab-free cakes to market by December 2018.

6 Questions with the Father of Clean Meat, Dr. Mark Post

Mosa Meat Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Mark Post (who also happens to be a GFI advisor since our founding and co-host of our Good Food Conference) spoke with us about the exponential potential of and the limits on clean meat production.

Imagine a food system where the most affordable and delicious products are also good for our bodies and the planet.

Here's how we do it.

“Remaking meat is one sector of the food industry that is ripe for innovation and growth.”

"I believe that in 30 years or so we will no longer need to kill any animals and that all meat will either be clean or plant-based, taste the same, and also be much healthier for everyone."

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