# Niyati Gupta

> Niyati Gupta is the co-founder and CEO of Fork & Good, a Jersey City cultivated-meat startup betting against the rest of its industry. While competitors chase ever-bigger bioreactors, Gupta builds small ones, arguing that the way to make cell-grown pork as cheap as the real thing is to copy the efficiency of a pig, not the scale of a brewery. A Yale economist and Harvard MBA who advised Nigeria's agriculture ministry and ran a rooftop farm in Singapore before being 'bullied' into starting Fork & Good, she has raised roughly $30M, earned the industry's first cultivated red-meat revenue via a deal with an $8B food manufacturer, and held a public tasting at Davos where half the tasters could not tell her blend from conventional pork.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Fork & Good
- **Organizations:** Fork & Good, Comcrop, McKinsey & Company, Syngenta, Modern Meadow
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BA, Economics, Yale University, MBA, Harvard Business School, MPA/ID (Master in Public Administration in International Development), Harvard Kennedy School
- **Known for:** Co-founded Fork & Good, one of the first companies to make cultivated meat prototypes, Earned what the company describes as the first revenue in cultivated red meat through a joint development agreement with an $8B global food manufacturer, Raised roughly $30M from investors including True Ventures, Starlight Ventures, BBG Ventures and Leaps by Bayer

## Career timeline

- **—** — BA in Economics, Yale University
- **—** — MBA and MPA/ID, Harvard
- **—** — Consultant at McKinsey & Company; roles in food and conventional agriculture, including Syngenta
- **—** — Advised Nigeria's Ministry of Agriculture on feedlot setup
- **—** — CEO of Comcrop, a vertical / rooftop farming startup in Singapore
- **2018** — Co-founded Fork & Good with Gabor Forgacs, spun out of Modern Meadow
- **2021** — Raised Series A (last raised Feb 2021)
- **2023** — Public tasting at Davos of a hybrid cultivated/conventional pork blend; targeting cost parity for cultivated pork
- **2024** — Earned first revenue in cultivated red meat via joint development agreement with an $8B global food manufacturer

## Achievements

- Co-founded Fork & Good, one of the first companies to make cultivated meat prototypes
- Earned what the company describes as the first revenue in cultivated red meat through a joint development agreement with an $8B global food manufacturer
- Raised roughly $30M from investors including True Ventures, Starlight Ventures, BBG Ventures and Leaps by Bayer
- Held a public tasting at Davos where ~50% of 40 double-blind participants could not distinguish the cultivated/conventional pork blend from 100% conventional
- Built a Jersey City pilot facility growing meat with roughly half the carbon emissions of conventional meat
- Completed FDA submission and worked with FDA and USDA for two years on regulatory approval
- World Economic Forum agenda contributor

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — Appeared on the Business for Good Podcast arguing that smaller cultivators are the path to cultivated meat's success; discussed cultivating both beef and pork.
- **2024** — Fork & Good announced first revenue in cultivated red meat via a joint development agreement with an $8B global food manufacturer.

## Links

- Website: https://forkandgood.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niyagupta/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/NiyaGupta

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Last updated: 2026-06-03