Brown Foods (YC W22) — Making 'REAL' cow and human Milk!
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).
Brown Foods is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2022 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Making 'REAL' Cow and Human Milk! The founders listed are Sohail Gupta (Founder), Avhijeet Kapoor (Founder), Bhavna Tandon (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, February 8, 2022).
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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!
Sohail Gupta
Founder
Avhijeet Kapoor
Founder
Bhavna Tandon
Founder
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