Adamo Foods

What Adamo Foods does

Adamo Foods is a London-based, privately held food technology startup developing ultra-realistic whole-cut meat alternatives produced entirely from fungal mycelium. Founded around 2021-2022 and operating with 11-50 employees, the company targets the highest-value segment of the alternative-protein category — premium whole-cut steak analogues — rather than competing in the commoditised minced or extruded meat-substitute market. Its customer focus is restaurants and foodservice operators in the United Kingdom, with a planned broader European rollout as the next commercial milestone.

The company's core technology is a proprietary fermentation process that grows fibrous mycelium in large fermentation tanks and then cuts and shapes the slabs to replicate the muscle structure, taste, searing behaviour, and juiciness of beef steak. The product is positioned as a clean-label offering using fewer than five fully natural ingredients and no artificial binders, with ongoing biofortification research aimed at replicating beef's micronutrient profile. This single fermentation platform underpins two publicly disclosed consumer SKUs: the flagship Adamo Steak and a complementary Adamo Fillet. The technology stack has been externally validated through grant awards (Innovate UK Smart Grant, Better Food for All, Novel Low Emission Food Production Systems) and selection into the SHAKE Climate Change cohort at Rothamsted Research and the EIT Food Accelerator Network.

Adamo Foods is pre-revenue. Its commercial motion is restaurant-led: a limited UK restaurant pilot was conducted in 2023, public tastings were scheduled for late 2023, and the 2024 seed funding was explicitly earmarked for production scaling, product-range expansion, and a UK launch preceding broader European distribution. To date, the company has raised approximately $4.5 million in disclosed equity and grant funding across three rounds, with cumulative grant support from Innovate UK and European programmes. Founder and CEO Pierre Dupuis leads a small team of food-industry veterans. The business model is unit-sale based via foodservice partners; pricing has not been publicly disclosed, and there is no retail or direct-to-consumer channel currently indicated.

Name

Adamo Foods

Legal name

Adamo Foods

Website

https://adamofoods.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

London-based food tech startup developing ultra-realistic whole-cut meat alternatives from fungal mycelium via proprietary fermentation. Produces Adamo Steak and Adamo Fillet for restaurant and foodservice channels, with a UK pilot underway and broader European rollout planned.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Alternative Protein / Plant-Based Meat Alternatives

NAICS

Food Manufacturing (311)

SIC

Miscellaneous Food Preparations & Kindred Products (2090), Sausages & Other Prepared Meat Products (2013)

akta.pro primary industry

Plant-Based Meat Manufacturers (End-to-End Brands) (AFANAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Texturization & Structuring Technologies (Extrusion, Shear-Cell, Spinning, 3D Printing) (AFANAKAI)

Keywords

• Mycelium meat alternatives
• Fungal fermentation protein
• Plant-based whole cuts
• Alternative protein foodservice
• Sustainable meat substitutes

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Core offering

Adamo Foods manufactures and sells ultra-realistic whole-cut meat alternatives — specifically the Adamo Steak and Adamo Fillet — produced from fungal mycelium grown through proprietary fermentation. The products replicate the fibrous muscle structure, taste, texture, searing behaviour and juiciness of beef steak using fewer than five fully natural ingredients and no artificial binders, and are deployed primarily to UK restaurant and foodservice operators with a planned European rollout.

Product overview

Adamo Foods operates as a single-product-platform company built around one proprietary fermentation technology: the production of clean-label whole-cut meat alternatives (steaks and fillets) from fungal mycelium. Rather than a multi-module SaaS-style portfolio, the offering consists of one core technology stack — proprietary fermentation plus mycelium cultivation and shaping — that underpins the named consumer products Adamo Steak and Adamo Fillet, both targeted at restaurant/foodservice channels across Europe.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• The Adamo Steak: Europe's first ultra-realistic steak alternative made from fungal mycelium via Adamo's proprietary fermentation process; the company's flagship product offering.

Products and services

• Adamo Steak Adamo Foods' flagship product: an ultra-realistic whole-cut steak alternative made entirely from fungal mycelium grown via proprietary fermentation. It replicates the fibrous muscle structure, taste, texture, searing behaviour and juiciness of beef steak using fewer than five fully natural ingredients and no artificial binders, targeting restaurant and foodservice channels.
• Adamo Fillet A second whole-cut offering from Adamo Foods, leveraging the same proprietary mycelium fermentation platform as the Adamo Steak and marketed alongside steaks to give restaurant operators a broader whole-cut meat-alternative range.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Perfect Day: US precision-fermentation company producing dairy-identical proteins (whey, casein). Comparable on the deeptech fermentation platform and capital-intensive scale-up pathway, though focused on dairy rather than whole-cut meat.
• Quorn: Established UK-based mycoprotein incumbent (Marlow Foods) selling a wide range of meat alternatives made via fungal fermentation. Long-standing leader in the mycelium category with global retail distribution — comparable on core technology but far broader portfolio.
• The EVERY Company (formerly Clara Foods): US precision-fermentation alt-protein company producing egg and animal proteins via microbial fermentation. Comparable deeptech fermentation platform, regulatory pathway, and foodservice/CPG commercialization approach.
• Beyond Meat: Largest US plant-based meat incumbent with broad retail and foodservice distribution. Not a direct mycelium competitor, but the dominant category incumbent whose performance, pricing, and consumer trends directly shape the demand environment Adamo is entering.
• Impossible Foods: US plant-based meat incumbent with strong foodservice presence (Burger King, Starbucks). Comparable on the restaurant-first GTM motion Adamo is pursuing, though uses heme/soy rather than mycelium — illustrates both the foodservice wedge and the category competition.

Direct peers

• Meati Foods: US-based direct competitor producing mycelium-based whole-cut meat alternatives (steak, cutlets) via fermentation. Most directly comparable to Adamo on technology platform, product category (whole cuts), and stage — Meati is more capitalized and further along commercially.
• Nature's Fynd: Chicago-based food-tech company producing fungal-protein (Fy) meat and dairy alternatives via proprietary fermentation. Directly comparable mycelium platform with overlapping whole-cut ambition and similar early-stage commercial positioning.
• MyForest Foods: US startup producing mycelium-based whole-cut meat alternatives (Bacon, Whole Cut). Closest functional analogue to Adamo Steak/Fillet in product format and target foodservice customer.

Regional players

• Mushlabs: Berlin-based fungal-protein startup producing mycelium-based meat alternatives via solid-state fermentation. Comparable on technology platform and European footprint, but operates in a different sub-region (DACH) and pursues a slightly different product mix.

Emerging players

• Better Dairy: UK-based precision-fermentation startup producing dairy proteins via microbial fermentation. Comparable on the UK early-stage deeptech fermentation landscape, shared investor universe (Innovate UK, SFC Capital-adjacent funds), and category-development challenge.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds8 records

Investors10 records

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M&A

Investments

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