Orbillion Bio
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Orbillion Bio was a Berkeley, California cultivated-meat startup founded in 2020 by Patricia Bubner, focused on cultivated wagyu beef. It sold B2B to food manufacturers as part of the alternative protein industry, raising about $5.08 million and hitting a funding and scaling milestone for cultivated beef production in March 2024.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
Patricia Bubner founded Orbillion Bio in Berkeley, California, to make cultivated wagyu beef for B2B food manufacturers.
- Scaling milestone
Orbillion Bio secured new funding and announced it had reached a scaling milestone for cultivated beef production.
- Acquired
New Jersey-based Fork & Good acquired Orbillion Bio, combining their cultivated pork and wagyu beef platforms into what the companies called the largest IP portfolio in cultivated red meat. The teams were integrated at Fork & Good's Jersey City headquarters (home to a pilot plant producing several tonnes per year), with Bubner becoming co-founder and COO of the combined company.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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