Dairy production is currently hugely unsustainable and also highly inefficient. At Better Dairy we are using yeast fermentation to produce the same cheeses, yoghurts, ice creams that customers currently enjoy without having to use animals.
Location: United Kingdom, England, London
Employees: 1-10
Total raised: $26.81M
Founded date: 2019
Investors 8
| Date | Name | Website |
| 06.06.2024 | Unreasonab... | unreasonab... |
| - | Veg Capita... | vegcapital... |
| 09.03.2022 | Vorwerk Ve... | vorwerkven... |
| - | Stray Dog ... | straydogca... |
| 26.02.2022 | CPT Capita... | cptcap.com |
| 24.03.2022 | MK Venture... | mk-vc.com |
| 06.04.2022 | Manta Ray ... | mantaray.v... |
| - | Entreprene... | joinef.com |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 28.02.2022 | - | $24.64M | - |
| 17.12.2020 | Seed | $2.17M | - |
Mentions in press and media 14
| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.02.2023 | Six foodtech startups redefining our favourite foods for the better | All over Europe, food tech startups are using technology to improve how food is grown, produced, distributed, and consumed to reduce the environmental impact, improve animal welfare and ensure safe working conditions for growers. And it's s... |
| 28.02.2022 | Better Dairy Raises €22M at Forefront of Cow-Free Dairy Cheese | Better Dairy has raised $22 million in Series A funding, as the UK foodtech continues to develop its animal-free dairy portfolio. Using precision fermentation, Better Dairy is developing several aged and mature animal-free cheeses that it c... |
| 28.02.2022 | Better Dairy slices into new funding for animal-free cheeses | Food tech company Better Dairy is closer to getting its aged and hard cheeses into the testing phase after securing $22 million in Series A funding. The U.K.-based company, founded in 2019 by Jevan Nagarajah, is still in the R&D phase o... |
| 09.09.2021 | Got Milk? These 6 Microbial Biofermented Alt Dairy Startups Are Changing The Industry | 4 Mins Read It’s official: conventional dairy is out, and alternative dairy is in. As consumers become increasingly concerned about the health, sustainability, and safety of traditional dairy products, more and more shoppers are turning to ... |
| 04.08.2021 | Dairy Without the Cow: The Leaders of Fermented Proteins | The all-star roster of fermented proteins: Jevan Nagarajah of Better Dairy, Jason Rosenberg of Remilk, Hille van der Kaa of Those Vegan Cowboys, Inja Radman of New Culture and Bryan Tracy of Superbrewed join me on The Plantbased Business Ho... |
| 22.06.2021 | Why climate tech founders should apply for Net Zero 2.0 today | Climate tech is playing a big role in tackling the climate crisis, and the sector needs support. To succeed, climate tech scaleups require long-term investment, access to world-leading talent, insight, expertise, and cross-sector collaborat... |
| 10.06.2021 | Formo: “We See Our Technology as a Solution to Many Supply Chain Risks Around Food Security” | Cellular agriculture enables the production of real dairy proteins through precision fermentation, thus removing animals from the production process. In this insightful interview, Raffael Wohlgensinger, CEO and co-founder of Formo, talks to... |
| 22.12.2020 | Elysabeth Alfano’s Top 10 Predictions for 2021 | Every week, Plant-based Business Expert Elysabeth Alfano breaks down the headlines with her review and analysis in the Plantbased Business Minute. In preparation for the New Year, today she brings us her top ten predictions for 2021. Here a... |
| 21.12.2020 | Better Dairy Secures US$2.1M Seed Funding For Its Animal-Free Fermentation Dairy | 1 1 Share 3 Mins Read Better Dairy, a London-based startup using fermentation technology to produce molecularly identical dairy proteins, has raised £1.6 million (US$2.17 million) in funding. The firm says that the capital will be used to f... |
| 17.12.2020 | UK’s First Animal-Free Dairy Producer ‘Better Dairy’ Closes £1.6M Seed Round | ©Better Dairy The UK’s first animal-free dairy company, Better Dairy, announces the closure of £1.6m (approx. $2.1m USD) in seed funding. The London-based alt dairy startup makes products that it says are molecularly identical to traditiona... |
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