Impossible Foods
Impossible Foods is a Plant-Based & Alt-Protein company founded in 2011 and based in Redwood City, United States. It has raised $2B in total funding, most recently a Late-stage private in 2021.
Impossible Foods was founded in 2011 by Stanford biochemist Patrick O. (Pat) Brown in Redwood City, California, to recreate meat from plants and reduce the environmental footprint of animal agriculture. Its signature innovation is heme, produced via a soy leghemoglobin made by fermentation, which the company says gives its products their meaty taste and aroma; the flagship Impossible Burger reached retail and tens of thousands of foodservice locations and was followed by Impossible Chicken, sausage, beef and other products. The company has raised on the order of $2 billion in venture funding and remains privately held. Founder Pat Brown stepped down as CEO in 2022 and was succeeded by former Chobani executive Peter McGuinness, who announced his own departure in early 2026, after which a three-member executive leadership team took over day-to-day operations.
Impossible Foods is one of the two best-known U.S. plant-based meat companies and a bellwether for whether the alt-protein category can scale profitably amid a broad sector downturn.
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