Clever Carnivore
Founded: 2021
Northwestern Inventor:
Paul Burridge
Feinberg School of Medicine
Clever Carnivore—co-founded by Virginia Rangos, PhD and Northwestern Associate Professor Paul Burridge, PhD—is Chicago’s first cultivated meat company. Clever Carnivore is a mission-driven startup deploying cutting-edge biotechnology to bring low-cost, top-quality cultivated pork and beef to the consumer market. Using Clever Carnivore’s high-efficiency model, cruelty-free, environmentally friendly and cost-competitive sausages and burgers will soon be a reality.