Good Startup
goodstartup.com Direct investor
Good Startup is a venture firm that invests in alternative protein companies globally through its Good Protein Fund. It backs founders developing plant-based, cultivated, and fermentation-derived proteins and related technologies.
Good Startup is a venture capital firm. It invests directly in companies, in alternative protein, plant-based meat, cultivated meat and precision fermentation.
“We invest in entrepreneurs building the next generation of alternative protein companies.”
— Good Startup, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Stage
- Not stated
- Invests in
- global
- Sectors
- alternative protein, plant-based meat, cultivated meat, precision fermentation, food and materials
Team, as Good Startup publishes it
- Gautam Godhwani Managing Partner
- Jayesh Parekh Managing Partner
- Neha Poddar Partner
- Vaishali Cooper Finance & Operations Adviser
- Josh Balk Co-founder, Eat Just; VP, Humane Society U.S.
- Lewis Bollard Program Officer, Open Philanthropy Project
- Bruce Friedrich Executive Director, Good Food Institute
- Ashmeet Sidana General Partner, Engineering Capital
- Yip Hon Mun Chief Strategy Officer, Noroo Holdings
- Gary Lin Managing Director, EVIG GmbH
Names and roles exactly as listed on goodstartup.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Good Startup publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.goodstartup.com/name, is_investor, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status, confidence
- https://www.goodstartup.com/good-protein-fundlayer, type, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max
- https://www.goodstartup.com/companiessectors
- https://www.goodstartup.com/teampeople
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Record 8540 · added 2026-09-29 · link last verified 2026-09-29 · confidence high
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