Fat is good. "Vegetable" oils are bad. Bad for us. Bad for the planet.
Our mission is simple: to eradicate the use of toxic vegetable oils in our food system.
These destructive oils are hidden in everything, from salad dressings and condiments, to fast food and Michelin-starred restaurants, accounting for 20% of our daily calories.
Vegetable oils have been linked to weight gain, diabetes, cancer, cognitive decline, heart disease, autoimmune disease, and more. They increase risk of death by 62% — more than heavy drinking or moderate smoking — and are a leading cause of deforestation and climate change.
Zero Acre Farms is replacing the most problematic part of our food system with oils and fats that don't make us sick or destroy the planet.
And we’re doing it by introducing a new category of healthy oils and fats, made by fermentation, not deforestation.
Fermentation is the original culinary art, after fire. We use this ancient technique in a revolutionary way to produce oils and fats with the lowest levels of bad fats linked to inflammation and disease, while having a small environmental footprint.
As a team of food lovers, nutritionists, innovators, doctors, and PhDs, we’re banding together to save our health and planet without sacrificing the foods we love.
The world needs an oil change. We hope you join us.
Learn more by reading our manifesto here: zeroacre.com/mission
Get free VIP access to our March 3, 2022 Future of Fat summit here: futureoffat.org
COME WORK WITH US: jobs.zeroacre.com
Our mission is simple: to eradicate the use of toxic vegetable oils in our food system.
These destructive oils are hidden in everything, from salad dressings and condiments, to fast food and Michelin-starred restaurants, accounting for 20% of our daily calories.
Vegetable oils have been linked to weight gain, diabetes, cancer, cognitive decline, heart disease, autoimmune disease, and more. They increase risk of death by 62% — more than heavy drinking or moderate smoking — and are a leading cause of deforestation and climate change.
Zero Acre Farms is replacing the most problematic part of our food system with oils and fats that don't make us sick or destroy the planet.
And we’re doing it by introducing a new category of healthy oils and fats, made by fermentation, not deforestation.
Fermentation is the original culinary art, after fire. We use this ancient technique in a revolutionary way to produce oils and fats with the lowest levels of bad fats linked to inflammation and disease, while having a small environmental footprint.
As a team of food lovers, nutritionists, innovators, doctors, and PhDs, we’re banding together to save our health and planet without sacrificing the foods we love.
The world needs an oil change. We hope you join us.
Learn more by reading our manifesto here: zeroacre.com/mission
Get free VIP access to our March 3, 2022 Future of Fat summit here: futureoffat.org
COME WORK WITH US: jobs.zeroacre.com
Location: United States, California, San Mateo
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $37M
Founded date: 2020
Investors 5
| Date | Name | Website |
| 10.07.2022 | Incite Ven... | incite.org |
| 16.02.2022 | Fifty Year... | fiftyyears... |
| - | Overwater ... | overwater.... |
| 04.01.2024 | Collab Fun... | collabfund... |
| 10.06.2024 | BoxGroup | boxgroup.c... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 03.02.2022 | Series A | $37M | - |
Mentions in press and media 26
| Date | Title | Description |
| 15.01.2025 | Chipotle Doubles Cultivate Next Fund to $100M to Drive Sustainability and Innovation in Food Tech | Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) has announced a $50 million expansion of its Cultivate Next venture fund, increasing the total pool to $100 million. The fund, established in 2022 with an initial $50 million, focuses on early-stage invest... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Creamy Future: Nourish Ingredients and Fonterra’s Fermentation Revolution** ** | ** In a world where food innovation meets sustainability, a new partnership is stirring the pot. Australian startup Nourish Ingredients is teaming up with New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra to create a new wave of dairy and non-dairy products... |
| 25.07.2024 | NoPalm Ingredients Secures €5M for Superior Fermented Oils Validated by Industry Giants | NoPalm Ingredients, a Dutch biotechnology company producing yeast-derived oils, has successfully closed a €5 million seed funding round touted as the largest funding ever for an alternative to palm oil in Europe. The round was led by Rubio ... |
| 23.07.2024 | Designer lipids startup Nourish Ingredients collaborates with dairy giant Fonterra on fats from fermentation | Australian startup Nourish Ingredients has announced a collaboration with dairy giant Fonterra to accelerate the development of dairy products with fats produced via fermentation. Nourish, which is developing a range of high-impact, low-inc... |
| 23.05.2024 | The Beef Tallow Trend is Bad for the Planet – Why’re We Doing This? | 6 Mins Read Beef tallow is on a resurgent streak, thanks in part to the apprehension against seed oils. But have we forgotten about the planet? If you, like me, grew up outside America, but still loved going to McDonald’s as a kid, the frie... |
| 16.05.2024 | 🎥Fats from fermentation: Chewing the designer fat with Nourish Ingredients | The race is on to develop ‘designer’ fats for the next generation of food products. But will fats & oils produced by microbes in fermentation tanks ever be a cost-effective proposition? The answer, says Australian startup Nourish Ingred... |
| 19.03.2024 | Plant-Based Innovations Secure Top Honors in 2024 Food and Beverage (FABI) Awards | The 2024 National Restaurant Association Show is spotlighting the future of the foodservice industry, showcasing 35 innovative products honored with the Food and Beverage (FABI) Awards. Over one-third of the awards were given to plant-based... |
| 27.11.2023 | The Seed Oil Conundrum: Why are Fast-Food Restaurants Ditching These Fats? | 8 Mins Read A handful of restaurants and fast-casual chains are bidding adieu to seed oils as consumer concerns about the health credentials of these fats grow. Some are turning to alternatives like Zero Acre’s sugarcane-based cultured oil ... |
| 19.09.2023 | Shake Shack NYC Pilots Rain-Fed Sugarcane Cultured Cooking Oil for Stack Burgers and Fries | 5 Mins Read Shake Shack has partnered with Californian startup Zero Acre Farms to trial the latter’s sustainable Cultured Oil on select menu items at two locations in New York City. The pilot is part of Shake Shack’s Stand for Something Goo... |
| 05.09.2023 | Looking for a climate job? Consider biotech | More and more people, especially early career workers, want jobs fighting climate change. But when we think about climate work, we tend to imagine only a small number of activities, like integrating renewables into the grid or planning citi... |
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