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Soylent is a pioneer in food technology, producing convenient, complete foods designed to provide maximum nutrition with minimal effort.
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99.66K
Followers
5.6K
Website visits
173.5K /mo.
Mentions
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Location: United States, California, Los Angeles
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $71.5M
Founded date: 2013

Investors 4

Funding Rounds 3

DateSeriesAmountInvestors
04.05.2017Series B$50MGV
14.01.2015-$20Ma16z
21.10.2013Seed$1.5Ma16z

Mentions in press and media 86

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23.02.2023The Week in AgriFoodTech: Pure Salmon nabs $507m, FreshToHome bags $104m, more layoffs for agrifoodThis week, Amazon backs India’s FreshToHome and Pure Salmon inked a whopping $507 million deal with Saudi Arabia’s government. Layoffs continue, while regulators in Finland approve the use of “burger patty” in marketing plant-based meat pro...
21.02.2023BREAKING: Soylent acquired by Starco Brands. ‘Starco gives us access to public capital and disruptive marketing,’ says CEO“Complete nutrition” brand Soylent has been acquired by Starco Brands, a consumer goods company trading on the over-the-counter (OTC) stock exchange. According to an 8K form filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by Star...
21.02.2023Soylent acquired by Starco Brands as nutrition company shifts into its ‘natural next stage’Soylent Nutrition is joining public company Starco Brands as part of an acquisition that will keep the plant-based food technology company operating as a separate unit under its current CEO Demir Vangelov. As part of the transaction, Vangel...
01.08.2022How Soylent is bringing plant-based meal replacement into the futureWhen Soylent first was introduced in 2013, its value proposition seemed shocking: the end of food as society knew it. A protein shake that was meant to replace food, containing all of the calories and nutrients one needed to get through the...
06.06.2022Soylent projects sales of $100m in 2022: ‘We're growing by consumption increases versus a discounting and distribution game’Vangelov did not comment on a recent article​ in Bloomberg​ ​claiming Soylent​​ is soliciting interest from strategic buyers and private equity firms, but said the firm had undergone a transformation over the past couple of years that has e...
31.12.2021This is the year 2022, according to old sci-fi moviesOne of the many repercussions of the global pandemic is that it has made planning for the future extremely tough. That tropical vacation you’re saving for this summer? Who knows whether you’ll be able to fly to that country at that time. Th...
28.10.2021The future of food: More science, more sustainability, more transparencyDemir Vangelov is CEO at Soylent, based in Los Angeles, US. The views expressed in this guest commentary are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of AFN. The future of food is both exciting and unknown. More than ever, cons...
28.10.2021Future Food 🎙️: Soylent CEO on shift towards middle America & the future of plant-basedA few weeks ago, I interviewed Soylent CEO Demir Vangelov for the Future Food podcast. Soylent is best known for its meal replacement drinks, which were seen as being a hit with many busy entrepreneurs and venture capitalists – though not n...
18.09.2021Soylent Abandons Food Disruption as Its BrandSoylent wants you to know it's not the same dystopian tech bro food liquid that it used to be. With a new strategy and an updated formula, the Downtown L.A.-based nutrition tech company is no longer billing itself as the only thing you'll e...
28.07.2021Soylent now profitable, firing on all cylinders, says CEO after rollercoaster year: ‘We had to make dramatic changes or we would have run out of cash…’The brainchild of Rob Rhinehart, a software engineer who quit the day job in 2013 after deciding “to bet my life on the idea that food could be empirically rebuilt,”​ Soylent​​ both intrigued and baffled trend-watchers in its early days wit...
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