CPT Capital

CPT Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom. The firm specializes in seed investments, primarily focusing on the alternative protein sector, which includes plant-based protein, recombinant proteins, and cell-based meat. CPT Capital aims to support companies that are advancing innovations in food and materials technology. Its investment strategy encompasses a range of stages, from seed to later stages, including sale or IPO. The firm targets a diverse set of sectors, including business products, consumer services, healthcare, and technology, with investments in regions such as the United States, Israel, Europe, the United Kingdom, and Asia.

Lesley Farrah Dorwling-Carter

Senior Associate

Coco Hollamby

Analyst

George Howard

Managing Director

Debbie Jones

CFO

Harry Kalms

Principal

Melody Violton

Senior Associate

40 past transactions

Avant Meats

Venture Round in 2022
They focus on technology, commercial product innovation, and branding as well as intellectual property portfolio building in the area of ‘cell-based’ animal protein food products.

Liberation Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Liberation Labs is a biotech firm that develops an industrial biotechnology system for agriculture. It focuses on infrastructure that commercializes novel protein manufacturing at the scale.

Jinding Precision

Venture Round in 2022
Jinding Precision specializes in the production of automobile engines camshaft products such as pieces of gray cast iron and nodular cast iron automobile engine camshafts. Their products include casting camshaft blanks, casting camshaft assemblies, combined camshafts, and balance shafts.

New Culture

Series A in 2021
New Culture Inc. is a food and beverage company that specializes in producing cheese from protein using innovative methods. By employing microflora to create dairy proteins and dairy products, the company aims to revolutionize traditional cheese-making processes. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, New Culture is committed to developing sustainable and alternative cheese options that appeal to a growing market of health-conscious and environmentally aware consumers.

Shiru

Series A in 2021
Shiru, Inc., a food technology company, develops and produces proteins. The company focuses on producing edible proteins to replace dairy products and eggs in the food industry. Shiru, Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Oakland, California.

Formo

Series A in 2021
Formo, formerly known as LegenDairy Foods GmbH, is a Berlin-based company that pioneers the production of dairy products through biotechnology. As Europe's first cell-ag company, Formo specializes in creating real dairy products without the use of cows, employing innovative fermentation and bioprocess engineering techniques. The team consists of food scientists and engineers dedicated to advancing sustainable alternatives in the dairy industry. By leveraging biotechnology, Formo aims to provide consumers with high-quality dairy options while addressing environmental concerns associated with traditional dairy farming.

Miyoko’s Kitchen

Series C in 2021
Miyoko’s Kitchen is a food production company that produces artisan cultured Vegan cheese and butter. Selling in thousands of stores across the country, the Miyoko's brand has garnered loyalty, excitement, and passion since 2014..

Aleph Farms

Series B in 2021
Aleph Farms Limited, based in Ashdod, Israel, specializes in the production of clean meat through innovative cellular agriculture techniques. The company focuses on growing real beef steaks and other meat products directly from the cells of living cows, utilizing proprietary three-dimensional bioprinting technologies. This approach allows Aleph Farms to create lab-cultured meat products, including ground meat and beef burger patties, without the need for animal slaughter. As a leader in the sustainable food ecosystem, Aleph Farms aims to reshape the global meat market, which is valued at over $1 trillion. Co-founded with The Kitchen Hub and the Technion Institute of Technology, Aleph Farms has garnered significant investment to support its mission to provide clean and healthy alternatives to traditional meat products.

Aleph Farms

Series B in 2021
Aleph Farms Limited, based in Ashdod, Israel, specializes in the production of clean meat through innovative cellular agriculture techniques. The company focuses on growing real beef steaks and other meat products directly from the cells of living cows, utilizing proprietary three-dimensional bioprinting technologies. This approach allows Aleph Farms to create lab-cultured meat products, including ground meat and beef burger patties, without the need for animal slaughter. As a leader in the sustainable food ecosystem, Aleph Farms aims to reshape the global meat market, which is valued at over $1 trillion. Co-founded with The Kitchen Hub and the Technion Institute of Technology, Aleph Farms has garnered significant investment to support its mission to provide clean and healthy alternatives to traditional meat products.

THIS

Series A in 2021
THIS is a plant-based meat brand that provides alternative meat products for meat lovers. The company's products are made of plant-based ingredients that are fortified with vitamin B12 and iron, enabling meat lovers to get the real feel of having meat-based products and satisfy their tastes without killing animals.

ENOUGH

Series B in 2021
ENOUGH, formerly known as 3fbio Ltd., is a technology spin-out from the University of Strathclyde, established to develop and commercialize innovative patented technology for the production of mycoprotein, a meat-free food product. The company employs integrated fermentation processes that combine the production of mycoprotein with existing bio-refinery operations, which also generate bioethanol and animal feed as co-products. By utilizing glucose syrup as feedstock for mycoprotein and carbohydrate feedstock for bioethanol, ENOUGH aims to enhance production economics while promoting sustainable food solutions. Incorporated in 2015 and based in Glasgow, United Kingdom, the company focuses on transforming the food, fuel, and feed sectors through its advanced production methods.

Motif

Series B in 2021
Motif FoodWorks, Inc. is a bio-organism engineering company based in Boston, Massachusetts, that specializes in developing innovative food ingredients. The company focuses on producing animal-free proteins, including meat alternatives and dairy-free proteins, catering to the growing demand for plant-based food solutions. By utilizing fermentation technology, Motif creates essential proteins and nutrients that enhance both nutrition and flavor in food products. The company collaborates with chefs, health experts, and food innovators to develop new ingredient solutions aimed at transforming the food industry and promoting sustainability. Established in 2018 and originally known as Motif Ingredients, Motif FoodWorks rebranded in 2019 to reflect its commitment to advancing the next generation of healthy and plant-based foods.

Imagindairy

Seed Round in 2021
Producer of protein-based dairy products intended to provide healthy and tasty animal-free dairy goods. The company uses an integrating system and synthetic biology for maximal milk protein production and offers milk and other dairy products that are developed by deep tech, enabling consumers with an alternative to animal products at an affordable price.

BLUU Seafood

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a biotechnology company intended to specialize in the development and commercial production of cultivated fish. The company specializes in food technology that cultivates seafood made from fish cells, healthier, and more sustainable and enjoyed for generations to come, enabling customers with nutritious fish products without harming animals or the planet's fragile ocean ecosystems.

CellRev

Seed Round in 2021
high expertise in the designing and testing of self-assembling peptides providing different benefits when culturing adherent cells in vitro.

Redefine Meat

Series A in 2021
Redefine Meat Ltd. specializes in producing meat alternative products that mimic the appearance, texture, and flavor of traditional animal meat. Founded in 2015 and based in Ness Ziona, Israel, the company employs innovative proprietary technologies, including 3D meat modeling and food printing, to create animal-free meat from natural and sustainable ingredients. Redefine Meat focuses on delivering beef alternative products that offer a complex matrix, aiming to provide a cost-effective and scalable solution in the growing market for plant-based meats.

Hoxton Farms

Seed Round in 2021
Hoxton Farms, located in London, UK, specializes in producing real animal fat without the use of animals. The company employs a unique combination of cell biology and mathematical modeling to create cultivated fat, specifically designed as an ingredient for the meat alternatives industry. By utilizing a tissue culture system in bioreactors, Hoxton Farms offers purified animal fat that serves various sectors, including meat, bakery, confectionery, and cosmetics, thus providing a cruelty-free option for manufacturers seeking sustainable ingredients.

Matrix Meats

Seed Round in 2020
Matrix Meats, LLC, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, specializes in the development and manufacture of nanofiber scaffolds designed to facilitate the production of cultured meat. The company's proprietary process utilizes a variety of synthetic and organic materials to create structural replacements for non-muscle and non-fat proteins found in traditional meat. Founded in 2019 by Eric Jenkusky, Ross Kayuha, and Flavio Lobato, Matrix Meats focuses on providing solutions that promote clean, healthy, and environmentally friendly cellular meat. Their scaffolds, made from materials such as mycelium, algae, or aerogels, play a crucial role in advancing the cultured meat industry.

Better Dairy

Seed Round in 2020
The Better Dairy Co. produces dairy products. It offers chees, yoghurt, and ice cream. The company is based in London, United Kingdom.

Remilk

Series A in 2020
Remilk Ltd., founded in 2019 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, is a food-tech company that specializes in producing dairy products through innovative microbial technology. The company is focused on developing a milk substitute that closely resembles cow's milk in flavor, nutritional composition, and functionality. By utilizing microbes to create key ingredients found in traditional milk, Remilk aims to offer an alternative that meets the demands of consumers seeking sustainable and dairy-free options.

Avant Meats

Seed Round in 2020
They focus on technology, commercial product innovation, and branding as well as intellectual property portfolio building in the area of ‘cell-based’ animal protein food products.

Green Monday

Venture Round in 2020
Green Monday Holdings is a Hong Kong-based company founded in 2012 that specializes in manufacturing and distributing plant-based pork substitute products and frozen meals. The company offers a variety of products under its OmniPork brand, including OmniPork Luncheon, a meat alternative that provides dietary fiber, potassium, and calcium; OmniPork Strips; and several ready-to-eat options such as Thai Basil OmniPork with jasmine rice and Thai OmniPork stir-fried noodles. In addition to its product lineup, Green Monday operates a chain of vegetarian-focused retail outlets and cafes, promoting a plant-based lifestyle.

Solar Foods

Series A in 2020
The Finnish company Solar Foods Oy produces an entirely new kind of nutrient-rich protein using only air and electricity as the main resources. The goal of the company is to start commercial production of the environmentally revolutionary protein in 2020.Solar Foods’ concept redefines the basics of food production, as it is not dependent on agriculture, the weather, or the climate. The price of the protein product is also competitive compared to sources such as soy protein.

Geltor

Series B in 2020
Geltor, Inc. produces bioactive animal free collagens and other proteins for beauty, nutrition, and other applications. It offers Collume, a bio-designed collagen technology for skincare cellular regeneration, protection, and derma-collagen synthesis; and HumaColl21, a collagen product that delivers collagen, elastin, laminin, and fibronectin boosting effect for skin care. The company also provides vegan collagen peptides and other novel proteins for functional food and nutraceutical formulas. Geltor, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Leandro, California.

Geltor

Series B in 2020
Geltor, Inc. produces bioactive animal free collagens and other proteins for beauty, nutrition, and other applications. It offers Collume, a bio-designed collagen technology for skincare cellular regeneration, protection, and derma-collagen synthesis; and HumaColl21, a collagen product that delivers collagen, elastin, laminin, and fibronectin boosting effect for skin care. The company also provides vegan collagen peptides and other novel proteins for functional food and nutraceutical formulas. Geltor, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Leandro, California.

TurtleTree

Seed Round in 2020
TurtleTree Labs is a biotechnology company founded in 2019 and based in Singapore, specializing in the production of real milk from animal cells. The company addresses the challenges of the traditional dairy industry by utilizing patented technologies to replicate the natural milk production process using mammary cells. This innovative approach allows TurtleTree to create full-composition, full-functionality, and full-flavor milk without relying on animal farming, thereby eliminating issues related to pollution, resource inefficiency, and health risks. By producing clean milk in controlled food production facilities, TurtleTree aims to provide consumers with safe, healthy, and customizable dairy products while minimizing environmental impact and animal exploitation.

InnovoPro

Series B in 2020
InnovoPro is committed to bringing unique plant-based protein ingredients to the global food market in order to create nutritious, tasty, safe, and sustainable food products. With an excellent nutritional profile, free from properties and wide usability in the food industry, InnovoPro’s chickpea protein is the best choice for the growing plant-based protein market. InnovoPro was founded on 2013 by Dr. Ascher Shmulewitz an experienced inventor and investor, and has made considerable progress in developing chickpea proteins and other chickpea ingredients. InnovoPro has been recognized as an innovator of disruptive technology in the food industry.

Rebellyous Foods

Series A in 2020
Rebellyous Foods is a food manufacturing technology and production company defined solely to catapult meat alternative production toward price parity with animal-based meat. Rebellyous Foods implements novel food manufacturing equipment and processes in large-scale production to produce low-cost plant-based meat at high volumes. These goals are achieved through uniquely designed food products, the use of high-throughput manufacturing automation and ‘smart’ production centers, and the development and utilization of new innovative low-energy manufacturing tools. Working closely with industry partners, Rebellyous Foods makes plant-based meat sustainable, affordable, and widely available.

UPSIDE Foods

Series B in 2020
UPSIDE Foods, formerly known as Memphis Meats, is a company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that specializes in producing cultured meat directly from animal cells. Founded in 2015 by Uma Valeti and Nicholas Genovese, the company focuses on developing products such as hot dogs, sausages, burgers, and meatballs without the need to raise and slaughter animals. This innovative approach to meat production requires significantly less caloric input, water, land, and energy compared to traditional methods, while also aiming to provide consumers with cleaner meat products that are free from harmful chemicals.

Gathered Foods

Series B in 2020
Gathered Foods Corporation, operating under the brand Good Catch, specializes in creating plant-based seafood alternatives in the United States. Founded in 2016 and based in Heath, Ohio, the company offers a range of products, including plant-based tuna, frozen entrées, and appetizers. Its innovative seafood alternatives are crafted from a six-legume blend, which comprises peas, chickpeas, lentils, soy, fava beans, and navy beans, combined with seaweed and algae extract to impart an umami flavor. These products are designed to be dairy-free, gluten-free, and non-GMO, catering to consumers seeking cruelty-free alternatives to traditional seafood. Gathered Foods distributes its offerings through retail stores and online platforms, making its products accessible to a wider audience.

Good Catch

Series B in 2020
Good Catch Foods focuses on creating vegan and plant-based substitutes for seafood. Founded in 2016, the company offers a variety of products including plant-based shredded tuna, crab cakes, and fish patties, all made from ingredients such as pea proteins, lentils, chickpeas, and fava beans. Originally based in New York, Good Catch has since moved its headquarters to Newtown, Pennsylvania, where it continues to innovate in the field of plant-based seafood alternatives.

Formo

Seed Round in 2019
Formo, formerly known as LegenDairy Foods GmbH, is a Berlin-based company that pioneers the production of dairy products through biotechnology. As Europe's first cell-ag company, Formo specializes in creating real dairy products without the use of cows, employing innovative fermentation and bioprocess engineering techniques. The team consists of food scientists and engineers dedicated to advancing sustainable alternatives in the dairy industry. By leveraging biotechnology, Formo aims to provide consumers with high-quality dairy options while addressing environmental concerns associated with traditional dairy farming.

Shiru

Seed Round in 2019
Shiru, Inc., a food technology company, develops and produces proteins. The company focuses on producing edible proteins to replace dairy products and eggs in the food industry. Shiru, Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Oakland, California.

BlueNalu

Series A in 2019
BlueNalu is a cellular aquaculture company that satisfies the global appetite for seafood in a fresh, sustainable, and humane way. It offers consumers with great tasting, healthy, safe, and trusted seafood products, that support the sustainability and diversity of the oceans. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Algama

Series A in 2019
Algama SAS, founded in 2013 and based in Evry, France, specializes in the production and distribution of microalgae-based food products. The company aims to revolutionize the food system by harnessing the potential of algae to create sustainable and nutritious alternatives to traditional animal products, such as eggs and meat. Algama also offers Springwave, an antioxidant drink, while focusing on developing emulsifiers derived from algae for use in various food applications. Committed to addressing the growing global food demand, Algama strives to provide innovative and accessible plant-based solutions that benefit both consumers and the environment. The company has garnered support from prominent impact investors and is dedicated to making microalgae a central resource in the future of food.

Redefine Meat

Seed Round in 2019
Redefine Meat Ltd. specializes in producing meat alternative products that mimic the appearance, texture, and flavor of traditional animal meat. Founded in 2015 and based in Ness Ziona, Israel, the company employs innovative proprietary technologies, including 3D meat modeling and food printing, to create animal-free meat from natural and sustainable ingredients. Redefine Meat focuses on delivering beef alternative products that offer a complex matrix, aiming to provide a cost-effective and scalable solution in the growing market for plant-based meats.

New Culture

Seed Round in 2019
New Culture Inc. is a food and beverage company that specializes in producing cheese from protein using innovative methods. By employing microflora to create dairy proteins and dairy products, the company aims to revolutionize traditional cheese-making processes. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, New Culture is committed to developing sustainable and alternative cheese options that appeal to a growing market of health-conscious and environmentally aware consumers.

Motif

Series A in 2019
Motif FoodWorks, Inc. is a bio-organism engineering company based in Boston, Massachusetts, that specializes in developing innovative food ingredients. The company focuses on producing animal-free proteins, including meat alternatives and dairy-free proteins, catering to the growing demand for plant-based food solutions. By utilizing fermentation technology, Motif creates essential proteins and nutrients that enhance both nutrition and flavor in food products. The company collaborates with chefs, health experts, and food innovators to develop new ingredient solutions aimed at transforming the food industry and promoting sustainability. Established in 2018 and originally known as Motif Ingredients, Motif FoodWorks rebranded in 2019 to reflect its commitment to advancing the next generation of healthy and plant-based foods.

Aleph Farms

Series A in 2019
Aleph Farms Limited, based in Ashdod, Israel, specializes in the production of clean meat through innovative cellular agriculture techniques. The company focuses on growing real beef steaks and other meat products directly from the cells of living cows, utilizing proprietary three-dimensional bioprinting technologies. This approach allows Aleph Farms to create lab-cultured meat products, including ground meat and beef burger patties, without the need for animal slaughter. As a leader in the sustainable food ecosystem, Aleph Farms aims to reshape the global meat market, which is valued at over $1 trillion. Co-founded with The Kitchen Hub and the Technion Institute of Technology, Aleph Farms has garnered significant investment to support its mission to provide clean and healthy alternatives to traditional meat products.

Brilliant Planet

Seed Round in 2018
Brilliant Planet is unlocking the power of algae as an affordable method of permanently and quantifiably sequestering carbon at the gigaton scale. The company's innovative process enables vast quantities of microalgae to grow in open-air pond-based systems on coastal desert land.
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