Brown Foods

Making 'REAL' Cow and Human Milk!

YC-W22Healthcare -> Industrial BioEarlyFunded

What Brown Foods does

Brown Foods is a Stanford, Rice University and IIT Delhi alumni venture creating UnReal Milk - 'real milk' made using mammalian cell culture, AI enabled. They are the world's 1st company to produce cow-free whole milk in lab (Forbes). Targeting the $700 billion dairy market and $22 billion alternate dairy market with UnReal Milk - which could be converted into butter, cheese, ice-creams etc. and has taste and texture exactly like conventional dairy - unlike any of the plant based milks like oat milk or soy milk. Also, no animal cruelty and 82% lower carbon foot-print! Using the same technology, they have also created real human milk targeting the $80 billion infant formula market. And who knows if adults also start drinking human milk in future!

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Who runs it

Sohail Gupta
Avhijeet Kapoor
Bhavna Tandon

Funding and finances

Total raised$2.4M
Last stageEarly Stage
Rounds1
Last raised2022-06-09
Investors
AgFunderAmino CapitalCollaborative FundKunal ShahSRI CapitalUnpopular VenturesY Combinator

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