Bill Gates and other investors have invested $ 108 million in "impossible food" - plant meat from a professor from Stanford
“We love meat. We love cheese. And for thousands of years we have relied on animals to eat these foods. Impossible Foods has found a better way. We use plants to make the best meats and cheeses you have ever eaten, ”- with these words, meets the site of the company Impossible Foods, founded by former Stanford biochemistry professor Patrick Brown. For four years the company has been developing a new generation of meat products and cheeses, created exclusively from herbal ingredients.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Viking Global Investors, Horizons Ventures and other investors have invested $ 108 million in Impossible Foods as part of the next round of financing.
Judging by the appearance of an artificial cheeseburger, the cutlet in it is much tastier than soy meat
The company Impossible Foods is developing a new generation of artificial meat and cheese from plants. The founder of the startup, professon of biochemistry, Patrick Brown, worked for 25 years at Stanford University before opening the company Kite Hill and producing cheese from peanut milk.
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Brown's Impossible Foods project will make not just tasty food, but useful: without cholesterol, hormones and antibiotics. The company's flagship product is a cheeseburger made from herbal products.
The company studies animal products at the molecular level in order to select specific proteins and biologically significant elements from greens, seeds and grains and to recreate meat and dairy products. That is, to remove animals from the chain of production.
Brown's goal is to help the growing population of the planet. According to the forecasts of scientists, by the year 2050 nine and a half billion people will live on Earth. In 1940, only three billion people inhabited the globe.
Earlier, Impossible Foods raised seventy five million dollars. In the summer of 2015, the company negotiated a possible acquisition with Google. The deal did not take place: the startup wanted more than three hundred million dollars , which was offered by Google.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Viking Global Investors, Horizons Ventures and other investors have invested $ 108 million in Impossible Foods as part of the next round of financing.
Judging by the appearance of an artificial cheeseburger, the cutlet in it is much tastier than soy meat
The company Impossible Foods is developing a new generation of artificial meat and cheese from plants. The founder of the startup, professon of biochemistry, Patrick Brown, worked for 25 years at Stanford University before opening the company Kite Hill and producing cheese from peanut milk.
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Brown's Impossible Foods project will make not just tasty food, but useful: without cholesterol, hormones and antibiotics. The company's flagship product is a cheeseburger made from herbal products.
The company studies animal products at the molecular level in order to select specific proteins and biologically significant elements from greens, seeds and grains and to recreate meat and dairy products. That is, to remove animals from the chain of production.
Brown's goal is to help the growing population of the planet. According to the forecasts of scientists, by the year 2050 nine and a half billion people will live on Earth. In 1940, only three billion people inhabited the globe.
Earlier, Impossible Foods raised seventy five million dollars. In the summer of 2015, the company negotiated a possible acquisition with Google. The deal did not take place: the startup wanted more than three hundred million dollars , which was offered by Google.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/368673/
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