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Rosa Foods, maker of Soylent and Coffiest, is a pioneer in food technology, delivering nutritionally-complete staple meals that provide all the essential nutrients required to fuel the human body. Rosa Foods believes in managing the Company and the product by never being complacent and staying on the cutting edge of food technology and nutrition.

Soylent is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2012 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Soylent is a simple, nutritious, and affordable food that possesses…. The founders listed are Rob Rhinehart (Founder/CEO), John Coogan (Founder/CTO), Hunter Scott (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, May 4, 2012).

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Soylent

New accelerator entry · 2012-05-04 · the record

Summer 2012
batch
51
people
Growth
stage
United States of America
region
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BatchSummer 2012
Announced2012-05-04
StageGrowth
StatusAcquired
Team size51
IndustryConsumer
Sub-industryConsumer -> Food and Beverage
SectorsSustainability, Food Tech
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada
BasedLos Angeles, CA, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttp://soylent.com

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Rosa Foods, maker of Soylent and Coffiest, is a pioneer in food technology, delivering nutritionally-complete staple meals that provide all the essential nutrients required to fuel the human body. Rosa Foods believes in managing the Company and the product by never being complacent and staying on the cutting edge of food technology and nutrition. Working at Rosa Foods you’ll have a platform to build cool things that positively affect the world with fun and dedicated people. Rosa Foods products are produced with sustainability and efficiency in mind to create a convenient, nutritious, and affordable meal that is better for our health and the environment. We also have raised over $75M in funding from Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Lerer Ventures, and Y-Combinator. This enables us to offer the benefits of a larger organization while still maintaining the best qualities of a startup. You’ll be able to help grow our small creative team and contribute your ideas to build this exciting brand. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

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