Tiny Farms

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Tiny Farms was founded in 2012, is headquartered in Oakland, United States, lists 1–10 employees, and has 1 recorded funding round.

Employees
1–10
Founded
2012
Business Model
B2B
Last Round
SeedFeb 2016
Rounds
1

Indexed holds 1 funding round and 1 investor for this company. The full record is or through the API.

About

Tiny Farms was a cricket protein production company founded in 2012 in Oakland, California, by Jena Brentano, Andrew Brentano, and Daniel Situnayake. The company developed high-efficiency cricket rearing systems and energy-efficient processing methods to produce cricket protein powder for the human food, pet food, and animal feed markets, receiving SBIR grants from DARPA and USDA. After operating pilot farms and demonstrating new large-scale processing technology co-developed with the USDA ARS, the company closed operations in 2019 and open-sourced its learnings.

Summary

Tiny Farms is an Agtech company based in Oakland, United States, founded in 2012. It lists 1–10 employees. Its most recent funding was a Seed round in Feb 2016. Investors include Arielle Zuckerberg.

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Funding History

SeedSeed RoundFeb 2016

Investors

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