Mattson

https://www.mattsonco.com/

Last activity: 07.04.2025

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FOOD & BEVERAGE INDUSTRY EXPERTS
- Identification of new business opportunity/whitespace
- Inspiration, ideation, creative, and concept development
- Consumer insights
- Product design and development
- Brand design and development
- Scale-up and commercialization
- Food trend and food behavior tracking, analysis, insight tours, category and culinary deep dives

Mattson is North America’s most successful independent developer of new foods and beverages for the retail food and chain restaurant industries. Since 1977, we have worked with industry icons such as Pepsico, General Mills, McDonald’s, and Starbucks and as well as smaller disruptive brands such as popchips, Blue Bottle Coffee, Annie’s, Happy Family, Argo Tea Cafés, and Organic Girl, to help them identify new business and product opportunities, formulate the early prototypes, develop the branding, positioning, and packaging, test them with consumers, and commercialize the winning products in contract manufacturing plants or in our clients’ own facilities.

We are a 65-person, employee-owned company that operates nimbly and efficiently, which allows our clients to be smarter and quicker in getting new products to market. We provide hands-on resources to our clients, but more importantly, we provide expertise, insight, and award-winning creativity across food categories, segments, and channels.

Mattson is located in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Location

United States, California, Foster City

Employees

51-200

Founded date

1977

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Aug 7, 2024	What Can AI do for Food Innovation? Meet LEO, Mattson Co’s New AI Agent, to Find Out	What can AI do for food innovation? Meet LEO, Mattson’s AI Agent and find out! On this episode of The Plantbased Business Hour, Chief AI Officer at Mattson, Steve Gundrum, joins CEO of VegTech Invest, Elysabeth Alfano, to take LEO out for a...
Jul 17, 2024	Mattson appoints chief AI officer, unveils suite of new AI-powered innovation tools	Silicon Valley-based food & beverage innovation firm Mattson has announced a chief AI officer and unveiled a suite of AI-enhanced services it claims can both enhance and dramatically speed up the product development process. While anyon...
May 8, 2024	The Ozempic effect is real: Study zeroes in on GLP-1 users’ food needs	Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. A recent study by food product innovation specialist Mattson finds that those taking anti-obesity medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Zep...
Apr 20, 2022	Keto in focus, part four: ‘It's the latest incarnation of low carb…’	While Mattson has worked on some keto projects, research suggests that the percentage of people following a strict keto diet such that they are in a state of ketosis (burning stored fat, not carbs), is relatively small (single digits), su...
Apr 8, 2022	Four emerging plant proteins to watch: Pongamia, hemp, barley, and chickpea	“The Holy Grail [for food formulators] is often to have a neutral, clean flavor and color, and I think that is on the horizon for all of these [emerging] proteins, including duckweed," Dr Justin Shimek, CEO at innovation and product...
Apr 8, 2022	Four emerging plant proteins to watch: Pongamia, hemp, barley, and chickpea	“The Holy Grail [for food formulators] is often to have a neutral, clean flavor and color, and I think that is on the horizon for all of these [emerging] proteins, including duckweed," said Dr Justin Shimek, CEO at innovation and pr...
Sep 14, 2021	WEBINAR: Join Plantible, Noblegen, Mattson, Superbrewed Food, and Lever VC to discuss Protein 2.0	Find out tomorrow (Sept 15) in a FREE 60-minute webinar, moderated by FoodNavigator-USA editor Elaine Watson, which brings together three exciting startups, an investor in alternative proteins, and a product innovation specialist, to expl...
Sep 1, 2021	Plant protein that behaves like animal protein? Lemna-fueled Plantible Foods raises $21.5m, gears up for 2022 launch	The cash injection, bringing its cumulative funding to $27m, will enable Plantible Foods (currently operating at pilot scale in San Diego) to build its first commercial facility (in the Midwest) and introduce food formulators to a plant-...
Aug 27, 2021	Protein 2.0 webinar: What’s the greenest, most efficient way to make high-quality food protein?	In this FREE 60-minute webinar, moderated by FoodNavigator-USA editor Elaine Watson, we've brought together three exciting startups, an investor in alternative proteins, and a product innovation specialist, to explore the current protein ...
Aug 16, 2021	WEBINAR: Protein 2.0 from plant-based to fungi, lemna, bacteria, and more...	In this FREE 60-minute webinar, moderated by FoodNavigator-USA editor Elaine Watson, we've brought together three exciting startups, an investor in alternative proteins, and a product innovation specialist, to explore the market potential...
May 20, 2021	Plant-based innovation: Terviva raises $54m, collaborates with Danone on foods using oils, proteins, from Pongamia trees	Terviva – which aims to have commercial quantities of 'golden buttery' oil available by mid-2022, with ‘highly soluble’ protein isolates to follow in 2023 – will work with Danone and San Francisco based innovation platform MISTA to develop ...
Apr 29, 2021	New kid on the plant-based block? TerViva to commercialize oils (2022) and proteins (2023) from Pongamia trees	Founded in 2010 by Naveen Sikka, Maggie Kavalaris, Anne Slaughter, and Joe Andrew, TerViva is on a mission to shift Pongamia from a niche source of ingredients used in Ayurvedic medicine to a major food crop competing with the likes of so...
Jan 4, 2021	Food & Beverage Product Development Trends Driving What You’ll See On Shelves In 2021	Professional food developers rely heavily on R&D and innovation centers outfitted with lab benches, pilot plant equipment, consumer research facilities (i.e. for focus groups), and a wealth of other physical resources. But that's not al...
Jul 14, 2020	SHIFT20: How are consumers thinking about plant-based eating? Mattson unveils new survey data	Speaking in an education session at the virtual IFT show this week (SHIFT20) dubbed ‘2025, the Third Wave of Plant-Based Eating,’ Mattson president and chief innovation officer Barb Stuckey said the top five reasons cited by consumers ...
May 5, 2020	While Food & Beverage CPGs Struggle To Meet Record Demand, Innovation Continues Uninterrupted	Open your newsfeed these days and you’re likely to be overwhelmed by the coverage of how consumers are shopping for groceries: pantry-loading family favorites, stockpiling comfort foods, and the endless baking of cookies and bread.
Mar 17, 2020	Mycelium: The Miracle Mushroom That Can Replace Everything from Bacon to Shoes	Following the news in November last year that Ecovative Design had invested $10 million into researching the mycelium fungus, the biotech start-up has announced that it is already producing a wide variety of incredible products ranging from...
Mar 17, 2020	Mycelium: The Miracle Mushroom That Can Replace Everything from Bacon to Shoes	©Ecovative Following the news in November last year that Ecovative Design had invested $10 million into researching the mycelium fungus, the biotech start-up has announced that it is already producing a wide variety of incredible products r...
Jan 8, 2020	Foodservice And Restaurant Trends Driving Innovation In 2020	Every year at Mattson, we release our New Years Trends, but this year we’re doing it in two phases. This first phase is focused on food away from home, where about half of all dining dollars are spent. Following this are our consumer packag...
Oct 28, 2019	Impossible Whopper a 'huge hit' says Burger King, Beyond Meat raises forecasts, as brands hit back at ads attacking ‘ultra-processed’ plant-based burgers	Its comments came as The Center for Consumer Freedom (CFF) – a nonprofit founded by former tobacco lobbyist Richard Berman, who critics say has perfected the art of setting up nonprofits to advance corporate interests - ran a full page ad...
Sep 12, 2019	‘Cultivated’ meat could be the most-consumer-friendly term for cell-cultured meat, suggests Mattson/GFI research	Regulators will ultimately decide how companies in the nascent cell-cultured meat industry must label their wares, but over the past couple of years, stakeholders have sought to get ahead of the debate (and the ‘lab-grown’ headlines) by try...
Jan 30, 2019	Is the plant-based trend gaining traction in restaurants? The GFI unveils its annual scorecard	“Just over the past year we’ve seen a big change," he told FoodNavigator-USA. "It’s not just about chains adding the Impossible Burger or the Beyond Burger [two high-profile plant-based brands aiming to closely mimic meat] to th...
Sep 13, 2018	JUST gears up for late 2018 cell-based meat launch, but says more meaningful quantities are 2-3 years out	The products - made from cells grown outside an animal in a plant-based growth medium - will debut in a yet-to-be-announced overseas market owing to the lack of regulatory clarity over selling cell-based meat in the US right now, said Tet...
Apr 19, 2018	‘Plant-based’ plays way better than ‘vegan’ with most consumers, says Mattson	In a national online survey of 1,163 US adults conducted by Mattson last summer, respondents were asked to select either ‘100% plant-based’ or ‘vegan’ to a series of questions, said president and chief innovation officer Barb Stuckey. Whe...
Jun 28, 2017	Food Industry Leaders Take a Full-Systems Approach at Mixing Bowl Hub in Silicon Valley	Yesterday, food tech and agtech startups, along with investors, nonprofits, and other stakeholders, met up in Mountain View, CA to discuss how downstream consumer decisions affect upstream food decisions and the reverse. Here are a few high...

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FAQ about Mattson

When was Mattson founded?

Mattson was founded in 1977.

What has the press written about Mattson?

Parsers VC has collected 25 articles mentioning Mattson, among them “What Can AI do for Food Innovation? Meet LEO, Mattson Co’s New AI Agent, to Find Out” (Aug 7, 2024) and “Mattson appoints chief AI officer, unveils suite of new AI-powered innovation tools” (Jul 17, 2024).

Is Mattson still active?

Yes, Mattson is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Apr 7, 2025.