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Founder’s Story: Kesha Stickland and Dan Gardner, founders at The Mushroom Meat Co.

by Olivia Chavassieu | Jul 11, 2022 | Blog | 0 comments

“Our mission is to make it easy for people to eat plant-based without compromising on taste, ingredients, or their impact on the planet. A key part of that mission is making meat alternatives more accessible to those with dietary restrictions so our products are vegan, paleo, low in fat/sodium, and free of the top 8 allergens.

Our CEO, Kesha Stickland, adopted a plant-based diet 5 years ago to manage several health conditions and experienced the healing power first-hand. She fell in love with fermentation and #mushroom growing after turning to mushrooms to replace meat in her family’s diet.

She spent the next 2 years working with her husband and Co-Founder, Dan Gardner, to turn her hobby into a patent-pending technology that transforms mushrooms and upcycled plant proteins into a flexible ingredient platform. The platform can be used to create a variety of clean-label beef, pork, and chicken alternatives. This inspired the couple to leave their careers in high-tech (software) to create a new kind of meat alternative using old-school tech (fungi).

The two share more than 40 years of collective experience leading the development of technology products. They’re also both trained in plant-based nutrition and mushroom cultivation..”

📣 Kesha and Dan were part of the #BIVCohort5. If you would like to join our next cohort and receive a US$200,000 investment package to fast-track your alternative protein startup, apply here.

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