About

Founded

2020

Headquarters

Boston, Massachusetts

Industry

Food & Beverage

Company Description

What if we let animals go about their business and made meat differently? Tender (formerly Boston Meats) is on a mission to make alternative meats so delicious, nutritious, and affordable that eating animals won’t make sense anymore!

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Funding

Total Raised

$12.3 million

Valuation

Undisclosed

Significant Investors

Lowercarbon Capital, Rhapsody Venture Partners, Safar Partners, Bread and Butter Ventures, MCJ Collective, Unovis

Company Traction

As of June 2023, Tender uses 50+ compatible alternative meat ingredients and can spin kilograms of fiber per hour at a lab scale.

As of June 2023, Tender has 1.8K Instagram followers, 60 Facebook followers, and 110 Twitter followers.

Leadership Team

Christophe Chantre: Co-Founder & CEO of Tender. Former Associate at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Grant Gonzalez: Co-Founder & CTO of Tender. Former Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University.

Luke Macqueen: Co-Founder & CSO of Tender. Former Associate in Bioengineering at Harvard University.

Clemence de Menorval: Director of Food Innovation at Tender. Former Category Scientist at HP Hood.

Rick Marquardt: Head of Strategy and Corporate Development at Tender. Former SodaStream Growth at PepsiCo.

Press

Vegconomist (December 14, 2022): Meet Tender: A Startup Using Cotton Candy-Like Technology For “Superior” Plant-Based Pork

Vegconomist (March 15, 2022): Natalie Portman Joins Tender Food’s $12M Seed Round for Plant-Based Meats “Indistinguishable” From Real Thing

FinSMEs (March 15, 2022): Tender Food Raises $12M in Seed Funding

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