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Animal-free collagen and gelatin

Company description

Jellatech is a B2B biotech business based in Raleigh, NC. Jellatech is producing high quality, pure, animal-free collagen and gelatin. Founded by a group of innovators, dreamers, entrepreneurs and scientists, Jellatech is eliminating the dependency on animals, to make better ingredient products - starting with collagen and gelatin. The collagen and gelatin industry is an industry that is based on the boiling of animal skin & bones and bits & pieces. Despite being on the back of animal carcasses and meat-industry byproducts, it’s a 3.5 billion dollar market with a 9% compound annual growth rate.

Why we invested

"Most of the proteins we make and use in our bodies are large and complex — which means they are very hard or impossible to produce using small cells such as yeast. So we need new solutions to make them at scale. Jellatech solves this problem by harnessing mammalian cells as nano-factories. These proteins can be used in both high value, medical applications, but also eventually as a cheap and more sustainable source of ingredients in food such as gelatin."

Magnus Hambleton, Investor

Founders
Stephanie Michelsen
CEO
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Jellatech

VERTICAL
Techbio & Bio
Country
USA
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Seed
2023
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