Upside Foods — Articles — Larissa Zimberoff

Cell-cultured meat is far from dead, but it’s time for a trillion-dollar Biden moonshot

You know things are hot when celebrities are signing term sheets. While helpful, it’s not their money that’s propping up the food-tech ecosystem. So the question here is this: Do VCs have the fortitude to continue supporting the more than 150 startups seeking to design a cell-cultured analogue to cheap meat? Perhaps the better question is: Should they?

Fast CompanyLarissa ZimberoffOctober 15, 2023Eat Just, Cultured meat, Startups, food-tech, Agronomics, Upside Foods, Blue Nalu, Breakthrough Energy Ventures

Inside UPSIDE Foods’ quest to make the most perfect meat grown in a lab

You can now order cultured meat for dinner, as long as you live in Singapore. This landmark move comes from Eat JUST, which now sells chicken nuggets made from a hybrid mix of plant protein and cultured chicken cells.

Fast CompanyLarissa ZimberoffJune 2, 2021Upside Foods, Memphis Meats, cultured meat, food tech