Bond Pet Foods, a Boulder-based company creating meat proteins through fermentation for pet food applications, has completed its Series A fundraise totaling $17.5 million.

The oversubscribed round includes investment from global food and agriculture pioneers ADM Ventures (Archer Daniels Midland Company) and Cavallo Ventures (Wilbur Ellis); institutional funds Genoa Ventures and Lever VC; food/tech and sustainability investors Thia Ventures, iSelect Fund, Stage 1 Fund, Lifely VC and Satori Capital, as well as music icons Sia Isabelle Furler and Joan Jett.

Bond Pet Foods, Inc. is a Boulder, Colorado-based pet food company using biotechnology to create food that's nutritionally comparable to conventional meat but without all the bad stuff - so people, pets, farm animals and the planet all win. Using some of the same processes that are employed in craft brewing, Bond produces high-quality animal proteins through fermentation, harvests them to better meet the nutritional requirements of companion animals, and uses the ingredients as the foundation of its complete recipes. Bond was named to Cleantech Group's 2019 50 to Watch list that highlights the top global companies creating a more sustainable future, and named a 2019 Purina Petcare Innovation Prize finalist as one of the most innovative pet care start-ups in the world.