Fundraising Fox
Calysta
Menlo Park, US · Delaware corporation · 60 employees on LinkedIn · 9 known investors
Find your way into Calysta
Sign up to see every warm intro you have to Calysta
- Paths you didn't know you had: your email and LinkedIn already hold routes to the Calysta team. We find them for you
- 2nd- and 3rd-degree connections: the friend-of-a-friend routes that take hours to manually find through your inbox or LinkedIn
- Answers now, not in days: momentum is everything in a raise. Skip asking around whether someone knows someone
Days of research, done the moment you sign in, with every route ranked by how warm it is.
Calysta produces protein ingredients through a patented fermentation platform that does not use arable land, plants, or animal products, offering products such as FeedKind and Positive Protein for animal feed and food. The company operates in cellular agriculture and food technology, with a FeedKind production plant in China run through its Calysseo partnership.
Founders & leadership
Board
Investors · 9
How we know: a partner's Signal profile · open dataset · 5k.vc investor directory · Not right? Tell us
How we know: the VCSheet dataset · open dataset · 5k.vc investor directory · Not right? Tell us
How we know: Celesta Capital's portfolio page · open dataset · 5k.vc investor directory · Not right? Tell us
How we know: Pangaea Ventures Us Inc.'s portfolio page · the VCSheet dataset · open dataset · 5k.vc investor directory · Not right? Tell us
How we know: funding news · aquafeed.com · Not right? Tell us
How we know: a partner's Signal profile · Not right? Tell us
Also in the syndicate · 2
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$84.2M disclosed across 2 rounds · 2019–2021
- $39MSeries D-1 funding roundSep 2021 · 2 sources
bp ventures (lead), Adisseo, AquaSpark, WTI
Source ↗
▶$45.2MraisedOct 2019 · 18 investors · BiotechnologyRule 506(b)
- Alan Shaw, Ph.D.Executive Officer, Director
- Craig Barratt, Ph.D.Director
- David HayesDirector
- Suan Swee TanDirector
- Mike VelingsDirector
- Rich TorresDirector
- Offering amount
- $120M
- Amount sold
- $45.2M
- First sale
- Jun 2019
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Founder mafia
3 people who came through Calysta went on to found or lead other companies.
Related companies · 3
Companies working in the same space as Calysta.
In the news
Frequently asked questions
- What does Calysta do?
- Calysta produces protein ingredients through a patented fermentation platform that does not use arable land, plants, or animal products, offering products such as FeedKind and Positive Protein for animal feed and food. The company operates in cellular agriculture and food technology, with a FeedKind production plant in China run through its Calysseo partnership.
- Who founded Calysta?
- Calysta was founded by Alan Shaw, Ph.D., Alan Shaw.
- Who are Calysta's investors?
- Calysta's investors include Aqua Spark, Baruch Future Ventures, Celesta Capital, Pangaea Ventures Us Inc., SQN Venture Partners, LLC, bp ventures, DigitalOcean.
- How much funding has Calysta raised?
- Calysta has disclosed $84.2M raised across 2 rounds.
- Where is Calysta headquartered?
- Calysta is headquartered in Menlo Park, US.