The EVERY Company

Launching the world’s first company to grow eggs from cell cultures instead of hens

2014

Overview

For decades, humanity has produced high value, small volume proteins, enzymes, and small molecules via cell cultures. What if we leveraged decades of experience in industrial fermentation to produce egg proteins this way?

That is exactly what New Harvest community members Arturo Elizondo and David Anchel set out to do as the New Harvest Egg Project.

The New Harvest Egg Project eventually turned into Clara Foods (now The EVERY Company), the world’s first company to grow egg whites from cell cultures instead of hens.

Behind-the-scenes

At the beginning of The EVERY Company’s journey, we documented updates about the project here.

The EVERY Company is now too big for us to keep track of what they’re up to. They are also an independent company! To stay up-to-date on The EVERY Company’s latest developments, please visit their website.

: The EVERY Company’s hen-free egg white meringue

: David holding a yeast culture capable of producing egg white proteins.

Updates

October, 2021 – Clara Foods rebrands as The EVERY Company.

February, 2015 – New Harvest publishes an interview with Arturo and an interview with David.

March, 2015 – In light of growing independent interest among investors in cellular agriculture, New Harvest moves away from founding companies. Instead, we focus on more neglected aspects of ecosystem building and supporting pre-competitive research.

December, 2014 – The New Harvest Egg Project is renamed Clara Foods and accepted into IndieBio SF, an accelerator which provides lab space and funding.

November, 2014 – David Anchel, Arturo Elizondo, and New Harvest unite as the New Harvest Egg Project.

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2020 - Present

Safety Roadmap for Cultured Meat

Because growing meat through cell culture is so novel a process, many questions about the safety of cell-cultured meat and seafood products remain unanswered.

This industry-wide initiative was designed in partnership with Vireo Advisors to begin a data-driven conversation about the safety of cultured meat. 50 leading companies shared previously unpublished details about their manufacturing processes which we used to create a body of publicly available information about how cultured meat is produced and what safety hazards might be introduced along the way.

2018-2019

Cell-Based Seafood

Cellular agriculture can be applied to seafood production to reduce our dependence on commercial fishing, which threatens the health of oceans and marine life.¹ Why, then, is seafood so underexplored compared to land-based meat?

Prior to this initiative, no public literature explored marine applications of cellular agriculture. We consolidated all of the technical reasons why seafood is uniquely suited for cell culture into a peer-reviewed paper to advance further research about cell-based seafood.

2017 - Present

Open Source Bioreactor

We are building a low cost, open source modular bioreactor for in vitro tissue culture to increase global access to cellular agriculture research tools. The project is a collaboration between New Harvest and the Institute for Development of Advanced Applied Systems (IRNAS) in Slovenia.