Tomorrow Farms is fueling a sustainable meals prepare with elements to show the pantry and fridge staples we all know now into meals which can be higher for us and kinder to animals and the planet.
The corporate is poised to launch its first product later this month — co-founder and CEO Ben Berman was mum about what that will be — thanks partly to a $8.5 million seed spherical, led by Lowercarbon Capital, with participation by Maveron, Valor Siren Ventures, Easy Meals Ventures, SV Angel and a gaggle of angel traders together with Ron Conway, Ryan Tedder and Max Mullen. The brand new spherical offers Tomorrow Farms whole funding of $10.5 million.
Berman began Tomorrow Farms a couple of yr in the past after a profession within the meals area. At 18, he had a meals truck known as Mainely Burgers, which grew into three vehicles and 16 workers. From there, he launched Good Pizza from his house, and in the course of the international pandemic was decreasing pizzas out of his home windows to folks as he raised cash for native charities. That enterprise is now a part of Philabundance, a starvation aid group in Philadelphia.
With quite a lot of funding funds going into the way forward for meals firms, Tomorrow Farms. which was incubated on the SALT Enterprise Fund in early 2021, has a mission of being the front-end associate for lots of those deep tech meals science firms constructing new merchandise and types.
“We noticed this wave of meals merchandise, the precision fermentation and the cell-cultivated meat expertise, however they wanted assist in commercialization,” Berman informed TechCrunch. “We do the entire commercialization, how you can get to market, the inventive and model work for them. We’re additionally trying into what resonates with prospects and what the following technology of meals ought to appear to be and discovering firms to make these meals.”
As talked about, Tomorrow Farms is gearing up for its first product launch and labored with an elements firm to construct a product round that firm’s formulation.
The brand new funding went into the product launch and mapping out a second product. This may entail rising the group, constructing retail relationships and discovering new meals tech companions. Berman stated the corporate is already working with a couple of firms growing ingredient inputs with extra approaching each day.
“There may be a lot exercise on this area, and that’s serving to us construct the way forward for our meals techniques,” he added. “We’re opportunistic, with all of that exercise, that we’ll discover the precise merchandise. We’re not making an attempt to construct fad merchandise, so we’re spending time and capital across the manufacturers we wish to launch.”
