Planetarians

Food Production, 479 Jessie St, San Francisco, California, 94103, United States, 11-50 Employees

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Planetarians turns food security into a profitable business with 10x cheaper than beef alternatives, and you can join it! TLDR: Our patented technology transforms unavoidable sidestreams ...

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Headquarters: 479 Jessie St, San Francisco, California, 94103, United States
Date Founded: 2013
Employees: 11-50
Revenue: $1 Million to $5 Million
Active Tech Stack: See technologies

Industry: Food Production

SIC Code: 5149 | NAICS Code: 31 | Show More

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Answer: PLANETARIANS's headquarters are located at 479 Jessie St, San Francisco, California, 94103, United States

Answer: Planetarians turns food security into a profitable business with 10x cheaper than beef alternatives, and you can join it! TLDR: Our patented technology transforms unavoidable sidestreams of food and beverage industries into a clean, nutritious, and delicious source of protein. Narrowing down food to first principles, we come to the question - where do we get the nutrients? Regardless of how you make food - plant-based, via animal agriculture, or growing cells in reactors - you need ingredients. Population is growing. The land is limited. So, where can we get initial nutrients?! This is the question we asked ourselves 8 years ago. Looking at the food system from the helicopter view - we noticed that 1/3 of all grown crops are discarded one way or another. Imagine you want an orange... You have to peel it. Where does a peel go?- Landfill, composting, animal feed... For us, it was the untapped source of nutrients. It accounts for 1/3 of all crops grown... But how can we eat that? This is the challenge we jumped. We thought that if we could unlock nutrients from it for human consumption - we could feed 50% more people on the planet without the need to grow more crops. It took longer than we expected, but with our better-for-you protein, we proved that it was feasible: - it has more protein than beef - its a quality protein with 82% PDCAAS - and it has a shape of versatile whole cuts We narrowed our formula down to 2 whole ingredients - spent yeast - a side stream of beer fermentation, and spent beans - dry matter left after soybeans were pressed for vegetable oil. We simplified the texturization process to 2 minutes and $5m line to get 500 tons per month of better-for-you protein at 1/10 of the beef cost. To make it everywhere - we partnered with world-leading beer company AB InBev (supply, investor) and Clextral (equipment). Selling in US schools, we know people like it - 72% acceptance rate! And business is profitable even at low prices the government pays