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Umaro Foods

Umaro Foods uses green chemistry to unlock value-added ingredients and chemicals from seaweed
2022
02-Oct
02-10
Albany, California, United States

https://www.umarofoods.com/

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Innovation

Industry Problem

Consumers want bacon-like taste and texture without animal farming, but many plant-based products lack crispness, fat and protein functionality.

R&D Focus

Red-seaweed protein, plant-based bacon and food formulation.

Innovative Solution

Uses protein from red seaweed to make plant-based bacon designed to crisp, sizzle and deliver fatty flavour.

Investment Funding

Last Funding Stage

Grant

Total Funding Amount

6.8M

Last Funding Amount

2.M

Last Funding Date

06-03-2024

Startup Stage

Seed

Lead Investors

US Department of Energy, AgFunder, Impact Science Ventures, Alexandria Venture Investments, Clear Current Capital

Revenue

$1M to $10M

About

Umaro Foods specializes in developing a plant-based protein source from ocean-farmed seaweed.

Products

Product

Umaro Bacon in Applewood and Smokey Black Pepper flavours.

Star Product

Umaro Bacon – the company’s flagship red-seaweed-protein product.

Demo Product or Complete Product?

Commercial product sold through Amazon and foodservice distributors.

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