Bond Pet Foods
Boulder, CO
www.bondpets.com
Product: Pet food made without animals
Category: Food
Competitors: Wild Earth,
BarkBox,
PetPlate
Founded: 2017
Number of Employees: 1 – 10
Estimated Annual Revenue:
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- Received an undisclosed bridge round of financing from KBW Ventures in Sep 2020
- A 2019 winner of the Purina Petcare Innovation prize
- One of the investors in Bonds is a vegan Saudi prince. Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed, through his company KBW Ventures, has invested in Bonds and several other vegan and clean-meat startups
- Raised $1.2 million in seed funding
Bond Pet Foods is a Boulder-based startup that is attempting to create plant-based pet food. The company takes meat proteins derived from animal cells and then grows the proteins through a fermentation process.
The company released it first consumer product, a dog treat bar, the first week of May 2020.
In September 2020, it developed the world’s first animal-free chicken protein for pets.