Some companies talk change. The EVERY Company engineers it, cell by cell, protein by protein. Born in 2014 as Clara Foods from the vision of Arturo Elizondo and David Anchel, this Bay Area biotech has grown into the global heavyweight of precision fermentation. They don’t make “alternatives.” They make the real thing, egg proteins identical to nature, just minus the bird. What used to come with feathers now comes from fermentation tanks, and the result is shaking a $270B market down to its yolk.
EVERY just locked in a $55M Series D first close led by McWin Capital Partners through the McWin Food Tech Fund, joined by Main Sequence, Bloom8, TO.VC, Minerva Foods, Grosvenor Food & Ag, New Agrarian & SOSV. That pushes total funding to $294M, with a second close slated for later this year. This isn’t a concept play, it’s a scaling operation that’s already producing metric tons monthly and selling to major food giants. When Walmart puts your proteins on shelves nationwide, you’ve graduated from startup story to supply chain disruptor with receipts.
Arturo Elizondo’s path reads like destiny with a business plan. A Harvard grad who once inspected slaughterhouses for the USDA, he saw firsthand the inefficiency of animal ag and set out to redesign it. Partnering with molecular biologist David Anchel, they turned fermentation into an industrial engine. With legal & IP powerhouse Nair Flores protecting the company’s growing patent fortress, EVERY now holds rights across the U.S., EU & beyond, securing the widest first-mover advantage in animal-free protein.
Their flagship, OvoPro, isn’t imitation, it’s replication. Chemically identical to egg white protein, it binds, gels & foams just like the real thing, but with an 18-month shelf life & zero cold chain cost. Then there’s OvoBoost, neutral, soluble, & built to enhance everything from coffee to baked goods, and animal-free pepsin, the world’s first of its kind. Add it up, and EVERY’s line doesn’t just mimic eggs; it outperforms them in price, performance & logistics.
Backed by partners like AB InBev’s BioBrew for industrial-scale fermentation, EVERY’s brewing protein like beer, only this batch feeds the world. From Daly City’s GENESIS Station HQ to Europe & the UAE (where a 4M-liter fermentation plant is in the works with ADIO), this company’s scaling with precision and purpose.
Congrats to the EVERY team for proving the future of food doesn’t need feathers, it just needs focus, science & a little swagger.
