Brown Foods funding, investors and company details

Brown Foods is an emerging Agro - Food Products startup from Bengaluru, working in the space of Brown Foods operates in the food technology (foodtech) industry, specifically within cellular agriculture and cultivated dairy.. Founded by Sohail Gupta, Avhijeet Kapoor, Bhavna Tandon.

Company: BROWN FOODS PRIVATE LIMITED
Sector: Agro - Food Products
Location: Bengaluru
Founders: Sohail Gupta, Avhijeet Kapoor, Bhavna Tandon
Total funding raised: ₹18.63 Cr

Company overview

Brown Foods is a Boston-based food tech startup founded in 2021 by Stanford, Rice University, and IIT Delhi alumni Sohail Gupta, Avhijeet Kapoor, and Bhavna Tandon. The company develops lab-grown dairy using mammalian cell culture technology, producing "UnReal Milk"—the world's first cow-free whole milk structurally identical to traditional dairy, validated by MIT's Whitehead Institute.Brown Foods aims to eliminate animal harm and environmental damage in food production by unleashing a new era of sustainable, animal-free dairy that matches real milk's nutrition and sensory qualities. Their mission challenges the necessity of livestock for dairy, promoting lab-grown alternatives to disrupt traditional farming while scaling cellular agriculture globally.

Funding rounds

Latest round: $ 2.36 Mn (₹18.63 Cr.), 2022-06-10. Investors: Y Combinator, AgFunder, SRI Capital, Amino Capital