Tomorrow Farms

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Tomorrow Farms is an American food manufacturer known for their "Bored Cow" bioidentical milk alternative that was released in May 2022.

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Background

Tomorrow Farms is a US company that was incubated by the SALT fund and received further investment led by Lowercarbon Capital, including from Sita Chantramonklasri's Siam Capital. [1] [2] Its leadership team consists of chief executive officer Ben Berman, head of operations Richard Chen, head of brand Luke Kingma, AJ Scaramucci, and Alex Klokus. [3]

Products

Bored Cow

Bored Cow is a bioidentical milk alternative developed by Tomorrow Farms which was released direct-to-consumer in May 2022. [4] [1] Bored Cow, which serves as the flagship product of Tomorrow Farms, [5] is real milk made in a lab without a cow. [6] [7] It is produced using Whey protein from the California food tech company Perfect Day. [5] [8]

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