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10.07.2024 | Women in the Pet Industry: Meet Dr. Heather Mendoza of Nulo | AUSTIN, TEXAS — If you’re searching for career success, Heather Mendoza, Ph.D., recommends looking outside your comfort zone. That’s where the director of research and development at Nulo has always found her drive, passion and motivation t... |
27.06.2024 | The scientific future of pet food: Leveraging alternative proteins | This article was published in the May 2024 issue of Pet Food Processing. Read it and other articles from this issue in our May digital edition.
Like other consumer product sectors, the pet food industry is now a part of the “Fourth Industri... |
31.05.2024 | HOWND’s Functional Treats Land on Shelves of Britain’s Largest Pet Retailer | HOWND this week announces the launch of three lines of its hypoallergenic functional treats into Pets at Home stores across the UK. The news shortly follows the March launch of the brand’s Superfood range into Pets At Home online.
Three fla... |
30.05.2024 | Bond Pet Foods & Wilbur-Ellis Nutrition to Develop Enhanced Pet Food With “Brewed” Chicken Proteins | Precision fermentation company Bond Pet Foods has partnered with previous investor Wilbur-Ellis Nutrition, a leading provider of innovative animal nutrition solutions, to develop tailored, non-animal-derived ingredients for pet food applica... |
01.05.2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Cultivated Quail, MasterChef Pros & A Cheese Debacle | 5 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Vow’s Tippling Club collab, US bans on cultivated meat, and a... |
24.04.2024 | Wilbur-Ellis Nutrition shakes on strategic partnership with Bond Pet Foods | ST. JOSEPH, MO. and BOULDER, COLO. — Following a major milestone in its partnership with Hill’s Pet Nutrition earlier this year, Bond Pet Foods announced April 23 it has teamed up with Wilbur-Ellis Nutrition, LLC, to develop sustainable pet... |
21.03.2024 | Mainstream Pet Stores Around the World Are Embracing the Ethical Pet Food Trend | As UK-based vegan pet food brand Hownd this week announces its rollout into Britain’s largest pet store chain Pets at Home, we decided to look into the ethical pet food brands now available in conventional pet retailers, and found that ther... |
05.02.2024 | Bond Pet Foods and Hill’s Pet Nutrition Mark Milestone in Fermented Meat Proteins for Pet Food | Colorado-based fermented protein producer Bond Pet Foods has reached a significant milestone in its partnership with global pet food manufacturer Hill’s Pet Nutrition. The company has officially shipped its first two metric tons of animal p... |
11.07.2023 | Bond Pet Foods: “We Believe the Pet Food Industry is On the Cusp of a New Renaissance” | Colorado’s Bond Pet Foods has had a busy few years since we last spoke back in 2018. In September last year, the fermented pet food startup headed by Rich Kelleman completed a Series A round totaling $17.5M with notable investors including ... |
12.04.2023 | Bond Pet Foods and the Future of Alt Protein | There’s been an increasing amount of conversation in the food world about non-animal-sourced meat products. People are beginning to use them for all sorts of applications, all the way from hamburger substitutes to high-class cuisine. But th... |
12.04.2023 | Bond Pet Foods: Precision Fermentation of Alt Protein | There’s been increasing conversation in the food world about non-animal-sourced meat products. People are beginning to use alternative proteins for various applications, from hamburger substitutes to high-class cuisine. But that’s not all t... |
08.09.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: $40m for crop intelligence, using tobacco for cultivated meat, Netherlands’ meat ads ban | This week, crop intelligence platform Taranis secured more capital for its aerial imagery and AI tech and BioBetter landed funds to turn tobacco into growth factors for cultivated meat. Online grocer Motatos bagged new capital, Uber and Nur... |
07.09.2022 | Bond Pet Foods Closes $17.5M Series A Funding | Bond Pet Foods Senior Leadership Team L to R: Tony Day, CTO, Rich Kelleman, CEO, Pernilla Audibert, CSO)
Bond Pet Foods, a Boulder, CO-based company creating meat proteins through fermentation for pet food applications, completed its Series... |
07.09.2022 | Bond Pet Foods Completes $17.5M Series A |
BOULDER, CO, Bond Pet Foods has completed its Series A fundraise totaling $17.5 million.
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07.09.2022 | Bond Pet Foods enters meat proteins phase with $17.5M Series A | Bond Pet Foods, known for making plant-based pet treats, is shifting its focus from treats to pet food applications as it leans into the creation of “nature-identical” chicken, beef, fish and other meat proteins using precision fermentation... |
09.08.2022 | Bond Pet Foods raises $17.5 million in funding, plans new facility | BOULDER, COLO. — On Sept. 7, Bond Pet Foods completed its Series A funding round, raising $17.5 million in investments. The company will use the funds to further scale its development of sustainable meat proteins for use in pet food formula... |
08.03.2022 | IWD 2022: Celebrating the Queens Of Alt Protein Who Are Forging The Future Of Food | 166
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The two biggest plant-based protein startups in the world are run by men. The majority of the rising cell-based protein startups are also run by men, alongside most of the vegan investment groups that fund them... |
17.02.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Equip gets $58m to help manage eating disorders; Bowery acquires Traptic | This week, US telehealth startup Equip raised funds for its eating disorder management platform, while Danish agtech company Agreena secured $22.5 million to help farmers participate in carbon markets.
In Asia, Next Gen Foods, the company b... |
07.02.2022 | Pop Star Star Sia Partners with Bond Pet Foods As New Investor and Advisor | Bond Pet Foods, a biotech startup aiming to remove animals from the pet food industry, announces global music star Sia Furler is joining the company as an investor and advisor.
In the new role, Furler will collaborate with the company on cr... |
18.11.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Monarch Tractor’s $61m round, JBS’s cell meat bet & Bayer-Microsoft match | This week, The Week in Agrifoodtech includes news of a major strategic partnership between one of the world’s biggest agribusiness companies and one of the world’s biggest software companies; while the world’s number one meat processor made... |
11.11.2021 | Bond Partners With Conventional Pet Food Brand Hill’s to Reimagine Meat-Based Nutrition | Colorado-based Bond Pet Foods, a company using precision fermentation to produce meat proteins for pet food applications, has announced a partnership with leading brand Hill’s Pet Nutrition.
The two companies will collaborate to produce a m... |
01.12.2020 | Bond Pet Foods receives $250,000 grant from Colorado agency | DENVER — The Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) has granted $250,000 to Bond Pet Foods, Inc., a Boulder-based biotechnology startup creating pet food and treat products with meatless, lab-cultured protei... |
25.11.2020 | Colorado Inno's 2020 Startup Gift Guide | It’s safe to say that the holiday season will look a bit different this year.
Gift-giving was already hard enough and it has only been made more difficult by the Covid-19 pandemic. Shopping will shift increasingly virtual and celebrations w... |
24.11.2020 | Bond Pet Foods Receives Funding from Colorado to “Revolutionise the Pet Food Space” | 37 Colorado startups have received a total of $7,657,811 of funding as part of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT)’s Advanced Industries Accelerator Grant Program, with the list of winners including t... |
24.11.2020 | Bond Pet Foods Receives Funding from Colorado to “Revolutionise the Pet Food Space” | ©Bond Pet Foods
37 Colorado startups have received a total of $7,657,811 of funding as part of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT)’s Advanced Industries Accelerator Grant Program, with the list of win... |
04.11.2020 | Pushing for US & Middle East to eat organic, Saudi prince joins Back To The Roots round | KBW Ventures, the early-stage investment firm run by Saudi Arabian prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud, has joined an investment round into Oakland, California’s organic gardening company Back to the Roots.
The round, of undisclose... |
14.09.2020 | From Burger King to Saudi prince: Bond founder on why cats & dogs could be cultured meat’s first mass consumers | Providing advertising makeovers and comms tips to a fast food giant used to gnaw at the moral fiber of former brand strategist Rich Kelleman.
“I was a vegan at Burger King,” he explains to AFN.
This was a decade ago, long before the days of... |
27.08.2020 | Bond Completes Prototype to Revolutionise Pet Food: “People, Pets, Farm Animals, and the Planet All Win” | Bond Pet Foods, a food tech company that has been working on animal-free pet food since 2017, has successfully created the first prototype of its future consumer-facing chicken without the chicken, which Bond says will revolutionise the pet... |
25.08.2020 | Bond Pet Foods Develops The World's First Animal-Free Chicken Protein For Dog And Cat Nutrition | |
06.12.2019 | UPDATE: Bond Pet Foods raises $1.2m seed round to take the animal out of pet food | UPDATE: FRI 6 DEC, 16:41 ET *adds comment from Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud*
Did you know that if America’s cats and dogs were a country, they’d be the fifth largest consumer of meat products globally? Now add the world’s pe... |
05.12.2019 | Bond Pet Foods Completes $1.2 Million Seed Funding Round | Bond Pet Foods, Inc., the Boulder-based company using biotechnology to make animal-free pet food, announces that it has completed its seed funding, totaling $1.2 million. Founded in 2017 by Rich Kelleman and Pernilla Audibert, Bond creates ... |
05.12.2019 | Bond Pet Foods Completes $1.2 Million Seed Funding Round | Rich Kelleman, Co Founder/CEO, Pernilla Audibert, Co-Founder/CTO, and Luis Brandao, Senior Research Scientist, Bond Pet Foods
Bond Pet Foods, Inc., the Boulder-based company using biotechnology to make animal-free pet food, announces that i... |
04.12.2019 | Bond Pet Foods Completes $1.2M Seed Funding |
BOULDER, CO, Bond Pet Foods announced today that it has completed its Seed funding, totaling $1.2 million.
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04.12.2019 | Bond Pet Foods Closes $1.2M in Seed Funding | Bond Pet Foods, Inc., a Boulder, CO-based biotechnology company making nutritious, animal-free and protein-rich pet food, closed a $1.2m seed funding.
The round was led by Lever VC, with participation from Agronomics, KBW Ventures, Plug and... |
04.12.2019 | Boulder Startup Making Animal-Free Protein Pet Food Raises $1.2M | In a strange sequence of events, while consulting on business insights for Burger King some years ago, Rich Kelleman decided to go vegan.
Years later, when he and his wife got a dog, Kelleman was faced with a similar dilemma over its diet.
... |
11.09.2019 | Can alternative protein startups justify their climbing valuations? | Editor’s Note: Yanniv is an investment associate at AgFunder.
It’s hard to miss the investor enthusiasm for meat-free animal products these days. Beyond Beyond Meat’s epic IPO, we continue to hear about mega valuations in the space and it w... |
29.03.2019 | Precision Grain Elevator Tech, Beer-Focused Food Waste Reduction, and an Innovative Beverage Startup Claim Top Prizes at FoodBytes! SF | Bushel, Shaka Tea, and Toast Ale won awards at yesterday’s FoodBytes! pitch competition in San Francisco for their sustainable products and technologies that increase agricultural efficiency, feature Hawaiian antioxidant beverages, and figh... |
07.02.2019 | Bond Pet Foods Selected as 2019 Finalist for Purina Innovation Prize | Bond Pet Foods are specialists in pet foods who utilise cellular agriculture techniques in order to create cruelty-free pet food using animal protein, with the tag line: “Pet food made from real animal protein. Without the animal.” Last wee... |
31.01.2019 | Innovative startups reimagining pet nutrition | ST LOUIS — Purina announced finalists for its third-annual Pet Care Innovation Prize, which provides financial support and mentorship to startups in the US pet care industry. Two of the five finalists are rethinking pet nutrition: Shameless... |
19.11.2018 | Bond Pet Foods: “Making Pet Food From Real Animal Protein, Without the Animal” | Bond Pets Food is creating slaughter-free meat proteins for cats and dogs, based on the belief that it isn’t necessary to harm one animal to feed another. With the contribution of biotechnology experts and board-certified veterinary nutriti... |
- | Bond Pet Foods | “We make vegan and protein-rich pet food and treats formulated by board-certified veterinary nutritionists.” |