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On July 11, 2019, Perfect Day released its first product, an ice cream made from non-animal whey protein. The launch was limited to 1,000 3-pint bundles available for $ 60 and sold exclusively through the company's website. The
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and nutritional properties as its animal-derived analog. After they are separated and dried into a powder, the proteins are used as ingredients in other foods that conventionally contain dairy protein.
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Perfect Day announced in late 2017 that it had been negotiating with possible food industry partners to incorporate its manufactured protein into existing food production lines, becoming a
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In November 2021, Perfect Day announced its entrance into the sports nutrition market, offering vegan whey protein powders under the California Performance Co. brand.
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that instruct the cells to produce proteins that are conventionally found in cow's milk. The microbiota are then grown in fermentation tanks where they convert a
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began to sell vegan dairy ice cream based on Perfect Day products. Perfect Day also began supplying the company Smitten Ice Cream for its N'ice Cream products.
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In 2022, the company Tomorrow Farms launched Bored Cow, a brand of chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry milk made with Perfect Day's whey.
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The Postcode Lottery Green Challenge awarded the company a runner-up prize of €200,000 in September 2015 (equivalent to
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Perfect Day was incorporated on April 28, 2014, under the name "Muufri", and was re-named "Perfect Day" in 2016. The
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In September 2021 Perfect Day started marketing an animal-free cream cheese under the brand Modern Kitchen.
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company was originally focused on the production of dairy goods (such as cheese or yogurt) for direct
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As of 2020, Perfect Day is commercializing its products through the Urgent Company, which sells the
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has invested in Perfect Day. The total funding received was $ 360 million as of October 2020.
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Melody Bomgardner (5 October 2020). "Can Start-Ups Make Us Love Animal-Free Dairy?".
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Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World
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ingredient company and marking a change in its business strategy of targeting the
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Perfect Day raised $ 61.5 million between 2014 and 2019, primarily supported by
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Chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry flavored milk sold with the Bored Cow brand
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To produce whey and casein proteins from non-animal sources, Perfect Day
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Strawberry-flavored cream cheese made with Perfect Day animal-free dairy
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technology is used elsewhere in the food industry, including to make
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brand of vegan dairy ice cream. In November 2020, ice cream maker
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to provide commercial-scale volumes of non-animal whey protein.
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to prevent competition from Perfect Day products as well as
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A bagel with Modern Kitchen strawberry cream cheese
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Biotechnology
Isha Datar
Berkeley, California

food technology
startup company
Berkeley, California
dairy
proteins
casein
whey
fermentation
microbiota
fungi
bioreactors
bovine
milk
Lou Reed
song of the same name
Isha Datar
New Harvest
Bay Area
retail sale
Bob Iger
The Walt Disney Company
Temasek Holdings
Food and Drug Administration
Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations
plant milk

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