Cultivated
Fermentation
Plant-Based
Marketplace exchange platform for ingredients, inputs, & services
Connecting the buyers and sellers of the ingredients, inputs, and services needed to produce alternative proteins.
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Fermentation
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Cultivated
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Plant-Based
- Ecosystem
- Commercial
- Raw Materials, Ingredients, & Inputs
- Business Services
- R&D
- Feedstocks
- Cell culture media
- Crop development
- End product formulation & manufacturing
- Scaffolding
- Industry
- GFI
- Startups
Description
Connecting the buyers and sellers of the ingredients, inputs, and services needed to produce alternative proteins is often a slow, inefficient, and ad hoc process. There is lots of whitespace for marketplace exchange platforms to help alternative protein companies source inputs and help incentivize sellers to enter this market and expand their offerings. An effective matching platform would likely include parameters to allow users to filter by region, volume, certifications, regulatory needs, and would enable easy comparison between competing products.
Related efforts
Several ingredient and input marketplaces already exist, including:
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