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Five Letter Foods

Real food for dogs without killing anybody
2022
02-Oct
02-10
Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Innovation

Industry Problem

Pet owners need nutritionally designed foods that reduce dependence on conventional meat and make use of food side streams.

R&D Focus

Vegan pet meals, brewer’s-spent-grain upcycling, fermentation and cultivated reindeer meat.

Innovative Solution

Develops functional vegan dog meal kits from brewer’s spent grain alongside fermented products and research into lab-grown reindeer meat.

Investment Funding

Last Funding Stage

Pre-Seed

Total Funding Amount

120.K

Last Funding Amount

120.K

Last Funding Date

03-10-2022

Startup Stage

Seed

Lead Investors

Techstars, Stockholm Techstars Accelerator

People

Founders

About

Welcome to the new era of dog nutrition. It’s time to stop feeding your dog only single-shape ultra-processed kibble in a bowl full of diabetes. Variation in diet is an equally important and exciting experience for dogs. The enemy of Netflix is sleep. The enemy of 5LF is dog food. This is real food for dogs. What does Five Letter Foods mean? Well, there’s the story. There’s always a story. Jere thought he had some great ideas (as always) for a company name. All of them had the word vegan. Others weren’t so convinced because it’s a really strong word. The V-word has such a burden. Jere was frustrated and sent a Whatsapp message “Vegan is just a five letter word”. And then we nailed it. Yes, these are vegan foods, but you can’t say it. So they are five letter foods. Our vision is to produce food that replicates the health benefits of raw food without torturing animals and significantly decreases the carbon footprint in food production. We design our products to follow the natural seasonal cycle of harvesting and leverage by-products from other food producers. We use fermentation to gently predigest nutrients, and cultivated meat to create proteins and fats without slaughter or antibiotics. Yep, that’s real meat growing in a lab. If you’ve ever tasted cheese, you’ve probably eaten rennet made in the same way, so this isn’t science fiction.

Products

Product

Vegan dog meal kits, Dogbucha, dog ice cream and a cultivated-reindeer-meat concept.

Star Product

Brewer’s-spent-grain vegan dog meals – the core circular pet-food proposition.

Demo Product or Complete Product?

Early commercial and R&D stage; Dogbucha and dog ice cream were reported sold through dog-friendly cafés, while cultivated meat remained in development.

Awards and Recognitions

Participations

Viikki Food Design Factory Germinator programme (2022–2023).

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