Based in San Francisco, Wild Type is a startup that uses cellular agriculture to grow cell-based seafood. Founded by Justin Kolbeck and Aryé Elfenbien, cell-based seafood offers a sustainable solution to meet the global fish demand without further depleting global fish populations.
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $100M
Founded date: 2016
Investors 6
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Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 23.02.2022 | Series B | $100M | - |
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| 08.01.2024 | Uncovering the Future of Seafood, Minus the Sea | The seafood sector is a vast and continually expanding industry, currently valued at over USD 257 bi... | vegconomis... |
| 12.04.2023 | Data snapshot: Almost half of all AgriFoodTech VC investment... | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our... | agfunderne... |
| 18.01.2023 | Top 10 alternative protein startups brought in $1.3bn in 202... | It’s been a tough few months for alternative protein startups, particularly those developing plant-b... | agfunderne... |
| 01.12.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: BeeHero nabs $42m for precision po... | This week, precision pollination company BeeHero landed Series B funding and US-based cultivated sea... | agfunderne... |
| 07.07.2022 | Is Cultivated Fish Possible at Scale? Find Out From Co-Found... | What will it take to make enough fish from cells to feed the world? If so, what will it take to make... | vegconomis... |
| 24.02.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: GrowUp Farms gets $135m, PlantLab ... | The UK will soon get a new, large-scale controlled environment agriculture (CEA) facility thanks to ... | agfunderne... |
| 23.02.2022 | Wildtype Raises $100 Million in Largest Ever Series B Round ... | Wildtype raises $100 million from investors including Leonardo DiCaprio to expand production capacit... | vegconomis... |
| 22.02.2022 | Can $100 million get Wildtype’s cell-grown salmon into the w... | Wildtype, a six-year-old, San Francisco-based outfit that’s developing cultured salmon from cells ou... | techcrunch... |
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