Blue Horizon, a pure play impact investor in the future of food, has made its first investment in plant cell culture.
Blue Horizon has invested in California Cultured, a Davis, California-based plant cell culture company pioneering a promising new application for cellular agriculture. Similar to cultivated meat, plant cell culture allows producers to grow complete, authentic cells in bioreactors rather than in fields or feedlots. In this case, cells are isolated from living plants and proliferate in a liquid nutrient media.
Blue Horizon is participating in California Cultured’s seed round alongside other strategic investors including chocolate company Meiji, Agronomics, SOSV, Cult Food Science and Prithvi Ventures.
California Cultured’s mission is to bring about a new age of real chocolate through cellular agriculture free from deforestation and labour abuse by growing, creating and scaling the most authentically delicious and nourishing chocolate on earth without the need for genetic modification.
Blue Horizon’s other investments in the sustainable chocolate industry include Yes Life Foods, Love Raw and Hail Merry.
