- Impact Objectives
- Empowering Emerging Leaders
- Mobilizing the Ecosystem
- Collective Value Creation
Built on Donor Support
Cellular agriculture is a brand new field. While we often hear about investment in companies, the field lacks the public infrastructure needed for ongoing innovation and industry growth.
As a publicly funded organization, New Harvest builds pipelines for talent development, bridges between stakeholders, and roads to new discoveries. We help to drive the field forward by:
- Empowering Emerging Leaders: Training and supporting individuals towards field-level leadership roles that fortify and advance cellular agriculture
- Mobilizing the Ecosystem: Creating productive venues to convene cellular agriculture stakeholders around key neglected topics
- Collective Value Creation: Co-creating resources, knowledge, and tools that have collective value for the cellular agriculture ecosystem and beyond, building roads to new discoveries.
Empowering Emerging Leaders
The dream of all donors is sustained impact. We believe people, rather than projects, are at the heart of creating change. Projects, ideas, and initiatives come and go; what continues is an individual’s drive to make a difference in the world through their knowledge and experiences.
At the core of each of our programs, projects, and initiatives are individuals who we believe will spark growth and change in cellular agriculture. By focusing on individuals, we are building a community of leaders united by our mission and strengthened by our differences.
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Number of research grantees supported through our catalytic funding
> 600
Number of industry jobs created by New Harvest community members who have founded companies
16
Number of universities represented by research grantees in six countries
Number of research grantees supported through our catalytic funding
We are building the cell ag talent pool and funding foundational research to advance the science of cultured meat. Our funding helps these emerging leaders generate the initial data needed to open doors for subsequent funding from government or other institutions.
Number of industry jobs created by New Harvest community members who have founded companies
Our research community fosters the leaders of tomorrow, including the founders of new companies. Companies that have sprung from the New Harvest network have collectively raised more than $1.19B in funding as of late 2021.
Number of universities represented by research grantees in six countries
By supporting a global network of cellular agriculture scientists working on critical research, we seed the field of cellular agriculture with scientific experts. For every researcher New Harvest funds, many more join the field from all parts of the world.
Number of annual conferences hosted
New Harvest hosted the first cellular agriculture conference in the world in 2016. Since then, we’ve hosted four annual conferences to facilitate the creation of a robust global network, discuss thorny issues, and lower the barrier to entry for newcomers.
Hosted the first meaningful collective action in the field of cellular agriculture
In 2020, we facilitated a groundbreaking collaborative effort to unite the field around a shared understanding about the safety needs for cultured meat. Over 87 individuals from 50 companies, representing over 61 percent of the global industry, participated.
Number of annual fellow retreats organized
We foster a supportive research ecosystem by regularly bringing researchers together to learn from one another through our fellowship program. As of 2021, we have hosted five annual lab meets and hundreds of weekly meetings, where our grantees forge connections, ask questions, share protocols, and envision the future of the field together.
Number of collaborative initiatives launched
Our collaborative initiatives bring together experts from disparate fields, ranging from food science to tissue engineering. These initiatives help drive progress on a broad range of neglected topics, from food safety to open access bioreactor design.
Number of peer-reviewed publications
New Harvest creates the foundational knowledge to advance the science of cultured meat—from culturing insect cells to creating edible scaffolds. This exploratory research is not only bringing us closer to the first commercialized cell ag products, but may radically change the trajectory of the field and industry.
First to coin “cellular agriculture”
Since New Harvest coined the term “cellular agriculture” in 2015, the field has grown exponentially. In the last 4 years, the number of peer-reviewed publications tagged with the term “cellular agriculture” has grown five-fold. By co-creating useful and credible knowledge and tools, New Harvest continues to legitimize the field and foster its growth.
I thought at first New Harvest was just a funding organization that would cover the cost of my research and my tuition. But now I see that it’s this community that’s really there to support your research and career development and help you understand where you fit in to help build the industry.
Mobilizing the Ecosystem
Building a robust, diverse cell ag ecosystem is not simply about providing a venue. To facilitate collaboration across the field, New Harvest creates welcoming opportunities to support equitable participation and meaningful exchange.
As a trusted nonprofit research organization, we are well-situated to forge partnerships across sectors and between disciplines, with leaders in academia, government, philanthropy, and industry. We create bridges between stakeholders, bringing them together to discuss neglected topics, solve pressing issues and envision the future of the field together.
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Number of annual conferences hosted
1st
Hosted the first meaningful collective action in the field of cellular agriculture
5
Number of annual fellow retreats organized
New Harvest’s thoughtful approach allows them to have productive conversations with a wide variety of stakeholders. They are a trusted and credible voice in an atmosphere with a lot of hype.
Collective Value Creation
Intellectual property is traditionally considered most valuable when protected, something which is key to generating a return on investment. At New Harvest, we are seeking a return on impact—how can we create the most change with our resources?
Our approach is to default to open. To maximize our impact, we ensure our assets are accessible for all to use, re-use, redistribute and build upon. We are building roads to new discoveries by co-creating the shared canon of knowledge needed to drive collective progress in the field.
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Number of peer-reviewed publications
1st
First to coin “cellular agriculture”
Working in cellular agriculture, there’s a feeling of being lost because it’s such a new field. It’s so valuable being able to connect with and learn from others who feel just as lost. New Harvest brings people and research together so we don’t have to solve every single problem we encounter from scratch every time, which makes us much more effective. That’s the power of cooperation.