Cheese manufacturers need casein functionality without livestock, while conventional dairy has substantial animal and environmental impacts.
R&D Focus
Precision fermentation, casein discovery and animal-free dairy protein functionality.
Innovative Solution
Uses a microbial discovery and fermentation platform called Margaret to produce cow-free caseins for cheese.
Solution Effectiveness
The company states that its cheese can be five times more sustainable across carbon, methane and water measures; this is a company-reported comparison.
Investment Funding
Last Funding Stage
Non-equity Assistance
Last Funding Date
11-06-2024
Lead Investors
EIT Food
People
Founders
Jaap Korteweg
Niko Koffeman
About
Those Vegan Cowboys is a dairy product producer that makes cow-less milk and cheese products.
Products
Product
Animal-free casein proteins and cow-free cheese prototypes.
Star Product
Margaret – the company’s casein-discovery and precision-fermentation platform.
Demo Product or Complete Product?
Development and scale-up stage; no broad commercial cheese launch was identified.
Future Plan
Investment Funding
The company completed a crowdfunding round and reports more than 1,850 co-owners.
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