Tender Food Raises $12M in Seed Funding

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Tender Food, a Boston, MA-based food technology startup, raised $12M in Seed funding.

The round was led by Chris Sacca’s Lowercarbon Capital with participation from Rhapsody Venture Partners, Natalie Portman, Safar Partners, Bread and Butter Ventures, MCJ Collective, and Unovis.

The company intends to use the funds to scale up production to launch its first products later this year.

Led by CEO Christophe Chantre, Tender Food is a food technology company in the Greater Boston Area, a hub for biotech research and innovation. Launched in 2020 by Harvard engineers, Tender specializes in creating alternative meats with authentic texture. Based on innovations by engineers at Harvard University, the company’s technology enables the creation of whole muscle cut products (e.g. chicken breasts, pulled pork and steaks) that look, taste, and feel like the real thing, with applications from plant-based to cultured meat.

Tender’s approach is enabled by innovations in materials and protein fiber manufacturing originally conceived in the Harvard lab of Kevin Kit Parker, Ph.D., who is the Tarr Family Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics at Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and an Associate Faculty member of Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. CEO Chantre, was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Wyss Institute prior to launching the company.

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15/03/2022