Better Meat Co.
Mycelium-based food ingredients derived from fungal fermentation
- Sector
- Agritech
- Headquarters
- WEST SACRAMENTO, CA
- Founded
- 2018
- Latest Form D
- $31.4M, Nov 2025
- Total capital
- $37M
- Federal grants
- None on recordNo awards found in SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF or DoD records.
- Private capital raised
- $37M
- 2 Form D · last Nov 2025
- 11 months since last filing
- Federal contracts
- None on recordNo federal contract awards found.
- Granted patents
- None on recordNo USPTO grants. Applications publish after 18 months.
Capital timeline
Latest events
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 2nd filing$31.4M
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 1st filing$5.6M
Node area is scaled to amount. Form D reports securities sold, which can differ from an announced round; filings are numbered in the order they were made.
Founders and team
From SEC Form D filings- Beena GoldenbergDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Brian OttensDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Glenn HickmanDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Milena EsherickDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Nikhil PrasharExecutive OfficerNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Pamela MarroneDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
Show all 9 people
- Paul ShapiroExecutive Officer, DirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Steve JurvetsonDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Stu StrumwasserDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
What it has protected
No granted patents are on record.
USPTO usually publishes applications 18 months after filing, so recent applications may not be visible yet. Patents assigned under a different entity name won’t match.
Checked: USPTO granted patents and published applications · Oct 23, 2026
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Regulatory activity · Agritech
- Supplemental Disaster Assistance Programs, Marketing Assistance Loans, and Sugar ProvisionsCommodity Credit Corporation
- Revisions to the Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance Loan ProgramRural Business-Cooperative Service
- Organic Certification Cost Share Program (OCCSP)Commodity Credit Corporation
- Technical Guidelines for the Production of Regenerative Agricultural Biofuel FeedstocksEnergy and Environmental Policy Office
- Rescinding Portions of U.S. Department of Agriculture Title VI Regulations To Conform More Closely With the Department of Justice's Regulations To Implement Executive Order 14281
- Assistance for Specialty Crop Farmers (ASCF) Program; Approval of Information Collection RequestCommodity Credit Corporation
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Sources
Federal grants from SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF and DoD records. Federal contracts from USAspending.gov. Private capital from SEC Form D. Patents from USPTO. Publications from OpenAlex. Regulatory activity from the Federal Register. Press matched on company name.
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Data freshness
SEC Form D filings through . SBIR and STTR awards through .