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Hampton Creek Swallows $90M in Series C

2014-12-19
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Hampton Creek has raised a $90M Series C round of funding.
According to TC, Hampton Creek has raised a $90M Series C round from several Silicon Valley insiders, including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, Braintree founder Bryan Johnson, Nick Pritzker's Tao Capital Partners, Blue Bottle Coffee Executive Chairman Bryan Meehan, LimoLand clothing founder Jean Pigozzi, as well as WP Global, Far East Organization and Uni-President Enterprises Corporation, one of the largest food conglomerates in Asia.

Previous investors, Horizons Ventures and Khosla Ventures jointly led the round, along with investment from co-founders of DeepMind Technologies Mustafa Suleyman and Demis Hassabis, Collaborative Fund, and Founders Fund.

Hampton Creek Foods, Inc. is a food company headquartered in Northern California that focuses on finding new ways of utilizing plants to replace eggs in a variety of different products. The company was founded in December 2011 by CEO, Joshua Tetrick and Josh Balk, the Director of Food Policy at the Humane Society of the United States.
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