Friday, February 2, 2018

Beyond Meat Expands Footprint In Los Angeles

El Segundo-based Beyond Meat, which develops plant-based foods which look and taste exactly like real meat, says is in a major expansion in Los Angeles. According to Beyond Meat, it is creating a new 26,000 square foot Innovation Center in Los Angeles, with enough room for more than 100 employees. According to Beyond Meat, the new center said the new center will house the "best and brightest" scientists, scientists, engineers, food technologists, chefs, and researchers together for what it calls its Manhattan Beach Project, to "perfectly build a piece of meat directly from plants." Beyond Meat is led by CEO and founder Ethan Brown. The company's investors include Leonardo DiCaprio, DNS Capital (Gigi Pritzker Pucker and Michael Pucker), WIT Investment (Taiwan's Tsai family office), S2G Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, The Obvious Corporation (Evan Williams and Biz Stone), Bill Gates, Morgan Creek Capital and Seth Goldman (founder of Honest Tea).

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