Cream Co.

What Cream Co. does

Cream Co. (legal entity: Cream Co. LLC, doing business as Cream Co. Meats) is a privately held, vertically oriented whole-animal butcher and distributor founded in 2016 by Cliff Pollard in Oakland, California. The company aggregates meat from over 25 sustainable and regenerative family farms across the West Coast — including partners in California, Oregon, and Washington such as Country Natural Beef, Klingeman Family Farms, Anderson Ranches, Pitman Family Farms, Richards Regenerative, and PT Ranch — and directly invests in over 20 of these producers. Cream Co. processes, butchers, and distributes product through a 15,000 sq. ft. USDA-inspected cut and wrap facility in East Oakland that supports whole-animal butchery, custom fabrication, co-packing, catch-weight processing, dry-aging, marinated products, fresh sausage, and old-world charcuterie.

The company generates revenue through B2B wholesale meat distribution to chefs, restaurants, butchers, and food service providers across the Bay Area and Los Angeles, using a sales-led motion and a proprietary chef-tailored wholesale mobile app for direct ordering with ranch-direct pricing on a quote-based system. Revenue mechanics are transaction-based product sales with no publicly disclosed pricing. The company has raised an $8 million Series A (January 2026, led by Soilworks Natural Capital with Builders Vision, Desert Bloom, and the Schmidt Family Foundation), a prior $5 million SEC-exempt offering in 2022 ($4.025M sold), an approximately $7.75 million round in July 2025, and a $1.5 million-plus USDA Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion grant — the only California meat processor to receive that grant. Headcount is 11-50 employees and the company remains founder-led by Cliff Pollard.

Name

Cream Co.

Legal name

Cream Co. LLC

Website

https://creamcomeats.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cream Co. Meats is a vertically integrated, USDA-inspected whole-animal butcher and distributor that aggregates meat from 25+ sustainable and regenerative West Coast ranches and sells B2B to chefs, butchers, and food service providers across the Bay Area and Los Angeles via a wholesale mobile app.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Wholesale Meat Distribution and Processing

NAICS

Animal Slaughtering and Processing (3116), Meat and Meat Product Merchant Wholesalers (42447)

SIC

Meat Packing Plants (2011), Sausages & Other Prepared Meat Products (2013)

akta.pro primary industry

Further Processing (Cooked, Smoked, Cured & Deli Meats) (AFAKALAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Refrigerated Meat & Charcuterie Wholesale (AFAIAHAI), Ground & Formed Meat Products Manufacturing (Burgers, Sausages, Meatballs) (AFAKALAE), Fermented & Air-Dried Charcuterie (Salami, Pepperoni, Prosciutto-Style) (AFANAEAE), Bulk Meat & Seafood Wholesale-to-Consumer (CRAHAMAI)

Keywords

• Wholesale meat distribution
• Whole-animal butchery services
• Regenerative ranch sourcing
• USDA cut and wrap processing
• Sustainable meat supply chain

Headquarters

HQ city

Oakland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Wholesale Meat Distribution: Distribution and direct marketing of sustainable and regenerative rancher products to chefs, butchers, and food service providers. Revenue generated through product sales with transaction-based pricing.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Cream Co. Meats operates as a 100% natural whole-animal butcher and distributor that sources meat from over 25 sustainable and regenerative family farms across the West Coast. The company distributes, direct markets, and directly invests in these ranches, while offering co-packing, custom fabrication, dry-aging, marinated products, and charcuterie services through its USDA-inspected 15,000 sq. ft. cut and wrap facility in East Oakland. Customers include chefs, butchers, and food service providers who order through a chef-tailored wholesale app.

Product overview

Cream Co. Meats is an unconventional meat company operating as a 100% natural whole-animal butcher and distributor for sustainable and regenerative ranches. The company offers a unified platform combining physical meat products with a chef-tailored wholesale app for direct ordering, supported by their USDA-inspected 15,000 sq. ft. cut and wrap facility in East Oakland. Their core offering includes whole-animal butchery, custom fabrication, dry-aging, and charcuterie services, distributed through a network of over 25 ranch partners to chefs, butchers, and food service providers across the West Coast.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cream Co. Meats Whole-Animal Butcher Services

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• ButcherBox: Subscription-based sustainable meat delivery company (beef, chicken, pork) sourced from pasture-raised/grass-fed farms. Comparable regenerative positioning and tech-enabled ordering, though the customer is DTC consumer rather than chef.
• Moink: Subscription meat company delivering humanely raised, pasture-raised beef, chicken, and pork directly to consumers. Comparable regenerative/humane sourcing stance and direct-to-customer tech-led distribution model.
• Belcampo Meat Co. Regenerative organic meat company operating its own ranches, processing facility, and retail butcher shops with a strong chef and consumer brand. Highly comparable on integrated ranch-to-charcuterie vertical model.
• White Oak Pastures: Regenerative farm and vertically integrated butcher producing grass-fed beef, lamb, and pasture-raised poultry for retail, foodservice, and DTC. Comparable farm-direct-to-chef positioning and whole-animal utilization approach.
• Thousand Hills Lifetime Grazed: Regenerative, grass-fed beef brand distributed to grocery, foodservice, and online channels. Comparable regenerative-sourcing positioning and foodservice/retail dual-channel distribution model.
• Crowd Cow: Online marketplace connecting consumers (and via Crowd Cow Pro, chefs) with a curated network of independent ranches for sustainable, traceable meat. Closest analogue to Cream Co.'s ranch-direct, tech-enabled wholesale model, though with a stronger DTC tilt.
• Niman Ranch: Premium natural and humanely raised pork, beef, and lamb distributed to chefs, restaurants, and retail. Highly comparable on the foodservice distribution side and on humane/sustainable sourcing standards, though Niman is significantly larger and nationally distributed.
• Strauss Brands: Specialty meat company offering natural, organic, grass-fed, and hormone-free meats to foodservice and retail. Comparable in that Strauss also operates its own processing/fabrication and distributes premium sustainable proteins to chef-driven customers.
• Marin Sun Farms: Bay Area-based regenerative and grass-fed meat producer selling to restaurants, butcher shops, and direct consumers. Closely comparable geographically and in mission: California-anchored, ranch-direct, chef-focused sustainable protein.

Emerging players

• Greensbury Market: Online retailer delivering 100% grass-fed beef, organic/pasture-raised poultry, and wild seafood direct to consumers. Partial overlap: comparable sustainable-meat positioning and tech-led distribution, but primarily DTC rather than B2B chef.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/Cream-Co-Meats-111448570480274
• Instagraminstagram.com/creamco_meats

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds6 records

Investors5 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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