At Cosaic we aim for a world in which good food choices benefit everyone: people, businesses, and the planet. We do this with ingredient solutions that offer greater industry resilience and greater consumer satisfaction.
Sustainability is at the core of everything we do at Cosaic, from the product we create to the way we operate on a daily basis.
Spring 2021: Tomas discovers technology that creates fat from yeast, and then wins Rethink Protein Challenge that propels him into creating the startup
June 2021: Tomas and Dimitri meet and decide to co-found together Cultivated Biosciences, with the vision to create a more sustainable and kinder food system
December 2021: Cultivated Biosciences is officially incorporated
February 2022: First employee joins the company
April 2022: pre-seed round of 1.5m€ raised from Founderful
December 2022: first successful prototype, a few grams
January 2024: seed round of 4.5m€ raised from Navus Ventures
Mai 2024: scale-up to 1500L bioreactor
June 2024: moved into our new beautiful labs in Horgen
April 2025: Cultivated Biosciences is now Cosaic
2026: market entry in the US
2027: market entry in Europe
2021: Dimitri Zogg, Co-Founder & CTO, and Tomas Turner, Co-Founder & CEO
“I started simply trying to convince my parents to eat more plant-based.
As a student, I played around and dreamed of a solution to change the factory farming system.
And then, by grabbing opportunity after opportunities, theses dreams have taken form in a truly magical new ingredient that can actually change things.
It’s amazing what can be achieved with the combination to right intentions and surrounding yourself of amazing mission driven individuals”
Tomas
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Our co-founders made a binding pledge to donate a portion of their proceeds on liquidity to charity. To ensure the effectiveness of their contribution they collaborate with Founders Pledge, which provides in-depth research on effective giving.
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2025: Dimitri Zogg, Co-Founder & CTO, and Tomas Turner, Co-Founder & CEO