Companies · Climate / Cleantech

SoylentSummer 2012Acquired

Los Angeles · CA, USA · Climate / Cleantech · founded 2012 · http://soylent.com

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Soylent — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
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Soylent: limited disclosed financing to assess.

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Where it sits in Climate / Cleantech

Soylent is one of 207 Climate / Cleantech companies tracked from Los Angeles, CA, USA, on record since 2012. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 41% of sector peers), and mid-pack by modeled valuation est..

Ranking is computed against this company's own sector cohort — reported capital is fact; valuation tiers are modeled.

AI analyst read est. — model-extracted from this company's public description, not a verified fact. 30%

operates a technology-led product inferred from public copy

Grounded in: “You are a venture analyst

Soylent is a simple, nutritious, and affordable food that possesses…

Rosa Foods, maker of Soylent and Coffiest, is a pioneer in food technology, delivering nutritionally-complete staple meals that provide all the essential nutrients required to fuel the human body. Rosa Foods believes in managing the Company and the product by never being complacent and staying on the cutting edge of food technology and nutrition. Working at Rosa Foods you’ll have a platform to build cool things that positively affect the world with fun and dedicated people. Rosa Foods products are produced with sustainability and efficiency in mind to create a convenient, nutritious, and affordable meal that is better for our health and the environment. We also have raised over $75M in funding from Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Lerer Ventures, and Y-Combinator. This enables us to offer the benefits of a larger organization while still maintaining the best qualities of a startup. You’ll be able to help grow our small creative team and contribute your ideas to build this exciting brand. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Food TechSustainabilityagtech/foodtechclimate/cleantech
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Amount raised vs valuation, by round

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How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 207 companies in Climate / Cleantech. Each bar is a median (the middle company, not an average — outliers don't skew it). Two yardsticks: real money raised (reported on Form D) and modeled value (our estimate est.). These are whole-sector medians across all stages, except the per-stage row.

Total raised — vs sector median (real $, all stages)
This company
Sector median$8.1M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages)
This company
Sector median$59.7M

Raised more than 41% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 41% of peers (estimate).

Full financing history

Stage is inferred from round size est., not reported on the filing — a round's dollar size maps to a bucket: Pre-Seed <$1.0M · Seed $1.0M–$4.0M · Series A $4.0M–$15M · Series B $15M–$40M · Series C $40M–$100M · Series D+ $100M–$400M · Growth/Late >$400M.

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Predictive signals are modeled est. from this company's own cadence and step-up, plus sector benchmarks — directional, not advice. Peer set and a CSV export live in your analyst workspace.

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Soylent is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.

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Similar companies

Nearest neighbours across the whole database — matched on sector, stage and capital scale, and on shared operators (officers or directors named at both companies in public filings). A discovery shortlist, not a valuation cohort — verify before acting, the same way modeled figures are directional.

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AmpUpClimate / Cleantechsame sector
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Array LabsClimate / Cleantechsame sector
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Matched by meaning, not labels — a local language model reads each company's name, sector and description and ranks the closest in that learned space. This catches look-alikes that cross sector boundaries; the structured list above explains its matches, this one trusts the text. Directional, like every modeled signal here.

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Agtech / FoodtechSeries A$80.2M72%
Hum Nutrition Inc.Agtech / FoodtechSeries A$144.9M72%
Planet A Foods
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Soylent operates in the Climate / Cleantech sector, based in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Soylent is a simple, nutritious, and affordable food that possesses…
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