Providing Strategic Support to Companies

We work with both start-up and established companies to ensure marketplace success for products that are disrupting the current system.

Fostering the Next Generation of Innovators

We connect food scientists, students, culinary experts, and entrepreneurs with opportunities in the academic and nonprofit sectors.

Educating Institutions

We educate grant-making institutions, corporations, and governmental bodies about plant-based and clean meat R&D as a critical component of endeavors related to sustainability, climate change, and global health.

Promoting Plant-Based Products

We work with restaurants, grocery stores, and foodservice companies to increase availability of the best plant-based options on menus, in grocery stores, and in cafeterias.

“Remaking meat is one sector of the food industry that is ripe for innovation and growth.”

Bill Gates
Founder of Microsoft

"Just as modern automobiles replaced the horse and buggy, conventional animal agriculture will be replaced by plant-based and cultured alternatives."

Russell Simmons
Hip-Hop Mogul

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Mapping The Clean Meat Industry

The world’s first public overview gives you a behind-the-scenes look at the clean meat industry.

Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Jack & Suzy Welch, DFJ, Cargill -- Invest in Memphis Meats

Clean meat just entered the big leagues.

A Few (Million) Bad Eggs

And one big solution to the food-safety nightmare that is factory farming!

Berkeley’s Back!

GFI and Berkeley just launched our plant-based meat challenge (2.0). Get ready for a fresh round of food innovation!

Get Food Innovation at SxSW!

Vote to showcase our panel at South by Southwest 2018, featuring Beyond Meat, Memphis Meats, and Lighter!

The Future of Meat is Slaughter-Free

Why animal rights activists should support clean meat.

Imagine a food system where the most affordable and delicious products are also good for our bodies and the planet.

Here's how we do it.

“Remaking meat is one sector of the food industry that is ripe for innovation and growth.”

"Just as modern automobiles replaced the horse and buggy, conventional animal agriculture will be replaced by plant-based and cultured alternatives."

Latest From the GFI Blog

Join us as we make a better future possible through groundbreaking innovations in food production.