We’re making our favorite food a force for good.

Building a better future together

It takes a big appetite to tackle big challenges. At UPSIDE Foods, we’ve spent nearly a decade working together to create cultivated meat that’s good for people and our planet.

2015

We founded Memphis Meats, the first cultivated meat company in the world.

2016

We cultivated the world’s first beef meatball.

2017

We cultivated the world’s first chicken and duck. We raised our Series A funding round with support from Bill Gates, Cargill, Kimbal Musk, Richard Branson, and Threshold.

2018

We received an investment from Tyson Foods, the world’s largest poultry producer. We partnered with the North American Meat Institute to support federal regulations for cultivated meat.

2019

We co-founded the Alliance for Meat, Poultry, and Seafood Innovation, the world’s first cultivated meat coalition.

2020

We raised our Series B funding round with support from SoftBank Group, Norwest, and Temasek.

2021

We changed our name to UPSIDE Foods. We opened EPIC, the world’s most advanced cultivated meat production facility in the United States. We partnered with 3 Michelin-star chef Dominique Crenn

2022

We acquired Cultured Decadence, a cultivated seafood company. We raised our Series C funding round with a historic $400 million close, the largest in the industry to date. We reached unicorn valuation (as a privately held company, our valuation is over $1B USD) We were the first cultivated meat company in the U.S. to receive FDA greenlight.

Food Worth Fighting For

Good food brings together good people. The dinner table is where ideas are shared, connections are made, and stories are told. We love meat—and if we make it right, we’ll have even more to go around. Meat the Future, the world’s first feature-length documentary about cultivated meat, captures how we plan to do it.

Watch the Film

In the News

NOVEMBER 2022

Lab-Grown Meat Receives Clearance From FDA

NOVEMBER 2022

Lab Grown Chicken Gets a Green Light From the FDA

NOVEMBER 2022

Lab-Grown Poultry Clears First Hurdle at FDA

Our Leaders

Amy Chen

Amy leads our global strategy and commercial functions. Before joining our team, Amy worked at PepsiCo for almost 15 years in a variety of marketing, sales, and commercial roles in the US and Asia. Previously, she earned degrees at both Harvard University and Stanford University.

Uma Valeti, M.D.

Dr. Uma Valeti is our CEO and Founder. Uma attended medical school at the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) in Pondicherry, India. After residencies at Wayne State and SUNY Buffalo, Uma completed three fellowships at the Mayo Clinic where he completed Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology, and Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging training. He teaches Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford University. In 2019, Uma was named a “Global Thinker of the Decade” by Foreign Policy magazine. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and SXSW.

Amy Chen

Uma Valeti, M.D.

Our Investors

Our latest round of funding is led by Temasek and the Abu Dhabi Growth Fund and supported by Baillie Gifford, Givaudan, John Doerr, SALT Fund, and Synthesis Capital. They are joined by existing investors Bill Gates, Cargill, Cercano Management, CPT Capital, Dentsu Ventures, EDBI, Kimbal and Christiana Musk, Norwest Venture Partners, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, SOSV’s Indie Bio, and Tyson Foods.