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Clara Foods Cooks Up $1.7 Million In Funding To Make Egg Whites From Yeast Instead Of Chickens
Biotech startup Clara Foods announced the close of $1.7 million in seed funding from David Friedberg, Gary Hirshberg, Ali and Hadi Partovi, Scott Banister, and SOS Ventures today. The goal is to use the dough to create egg whites without the chickens. While startup Hampton Creek approaches the problem by favoring plant protein over eggs, Clara Foods concentrates its efforts on liquid alternatives in a lab, using genetically modified yeast.
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