Uma Valeti

Founder and CEO, UPSIDE Foods · 1 appearance on the record.

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Uma Valeti is the founder and CEO of UPSIDE Foods, formerly known as Memphis Meats. A former Mayo Clinic cardiologist, he co-founded the company in 2015 to produce cultivated meat directly from animal cells.

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5 predictions · 2 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 5 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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Their most notable supported claim

Prediction Held up

Valeti: Cell-cultured meat products will reach the market within five years

“Our goal is it's very realistic to have products on the market in the next five years.”

Uma Valeti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:13 a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'

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What they said8 Episodes1

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Prediction Not checkable as stated

Valeti: Animal agriculture will be unimaginable in 10 to 20 years

“As we start thinking about 10 years out or 20 years out, I think it's going to be unimaginable that we were okay with enslaving billions of animals and doing food production despite the harm it was causing to the human health environment or the economic ineffi…”

Uma Valeti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:01 a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Valeti: Memphis Meats products are indistinguishable from conventional meat

“But I can only talk about what we've seen so far, and from the meat that we've harvested so far, we've made things like meatballs and fajitas, and it's virtually indistinguishable from whether it comes from a grocery store or from a conventional meat market.”

Uma Valeti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:26 a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'

Prediction Held up

Valeti: Cell-cultured meat products will reach the market within five years

“Our goal is it's very realistic to have products on the market in the next five years.”

Uma Valeti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:13 a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Valeti: Unlikely world will turn vegetarian or vegan soon

“In any culture you think of, 90% of the world's population eats meat. So thinking that the world could become vegetarian or vegan in the near future, We believe that it's very unlikely.”

Uma Valeti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:34 a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Valeti: Clean meat scaling requires no new downstream distribution tech

“We see the technology scaling up in a way that does not require any downstream innovation, because the whole distribution change for existing meat exists already.”

Uma Valeti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:37 a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'

Assertion Supported

Valeti: Traditional meat bacteria comes from slaughterhouse fecal contamination

“The reason bacteria gets in there is because you're in the process of slaughter, there's fecal contamination, or when you have an animal not fully washed before slaughter, that's how E. Coli or salmonella get in there, and then they multiply because meat is fo…”

Uma Valeti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:25 a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Valeti: Personalized food innovations will drive future gains in human longevity

“Think about the things that are coming in terms of longevity. People are living longer and longer Every year or every decade, despite not having any innovation in food at all, that's been an area that's been virtually untouched. Now think about what if you sta…”

Uma Valeti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:47 a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'

Disclosure

Valeti: Memphis Meats uses self-renewing cells for cultured muscle tissue

“We do take cells that already are in areas that people enjoy eating, but we also have other cells, which can reproduce and self-renew themselves and become very high-quality muscle tissue.”

Uma Valeti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:37 a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat'	Jan 2, 2019	7m

Uma Valeti

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