Startup Series: Artemys Foods

This week's guest is Joshua March, Co-Founder & CEO of Artemys Foods.

Before Artemys Foods, Joshua is a serial entrepreneur. He founded Coversocail, a customer experience platform that helps brands develop meaningful relationships with their customers at scale, and iPlatform, a social application company that was one of the world's first Facebook Preferred Developers.

Artemys Foods is on a mission to empower humanity to eat sustainably. It's working on the next generation of meat alternatives by cultivating meat. To replicate the full flavor profile and aroma of meat, Artemys Foods uses cell-based meat, growing real muscle and fat outside of the animal in bioreactors. Then they combine plant-based meat with the cultivated animal cells, enabling the team to create a more meat-like taste and texture. Artemys Foods is working to increase the efficiency of production and decrease the cost of bio-engineered meat.

In this episode, Joshua walks me through his motivations for starting Artemys Foods, the alternative meat landscape, and how Artemys Foods fits in. Joshua and I talk about software versus biotech entrepreneurship, what critics have to say about cultured meat, and how to scale alternative meat production. He also explains where Artemys Foods is at with staging, capital, and entering the market. It was great to learn more about the world of alternative meat and Joshua's journey.

Enjoy the show!

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Episode recorded February 18th, 2021