A protein biochemist got tired of ingredient hunts that take 15 years. So she built a search engine for nature's proteins - and its first product is a fat that behaves like butter without the palm oil.
Savor is a San Jose food-tech company making real fats - butter, oils, cocoa-butter analogues - from carbon, hydrogen and oxygen instead of cows, palms or coconuts. Backed by Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy Ventures, it commercialised its first carbon-derived butter in 2025.