Ranking editions: 2024

UPSIDE Foods

Founded as the world’s first cultivated meat company, UPSIDE Foods, one of only two companies in the United States with a cultivated meat product approved for sale, grows meat, poultry and seafood directly from animal cells – these products are not vegan, vegetarian, or a meat alternative – they’re meat, made without the need to raise and slaughter billions of animals.

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233.48

Total score

Business size score

100

Digital footprint score

72.69

Sustainability score

60.79

Company Details

  • Next Generation Food & Drinks
  • Cellular agriculture
  • Series C+*
  • Berkeley, United States
  • Our company has a black, asian or minority ethnic founder / founders

*Latest funding round undertaken by the company as of November 2025

Top 3 UN SDGs fulfilled

industry-innovation responsable-consumption climate-action

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