SCiFi Foods

SCiFi Foods was a San Francisco Bay Area food-technology startup, founded in 2019 by Joshua March (CEO) and Kasia Gora (CTO), that developed cultivated (cell-cultured) beef blended with plant-based ingredients to make burgers close to the taste of conventional meat. The company used a proprietary platform built on gene-editing tools such as CRISPR to create and screen hundreds of animal cell lines each month. Backed by a16z among others, SCiFi Foods raised roughly $40M before ceasing operations in June 2024; its cell lines were later released to academia via the Good Food Institute. The company is defunct and exposes no public API, developer portal, or technical surface.

SCiFi Foods is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Cultivated Meat, Food Technology, Biotechnology, and Cell-Cultured Meat.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyCultivated MeatFood TechnologyBiotechnologyCell-Cultured MeatAlternative ProteinCRISPRDefunct

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

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Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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name: SCiFi Foods
description: SCiFi Foods was a San Francisco Bay Area food-technology startup, founded in 2019 by Joshua March (CEO) and Kasia
  Gora (CTO), that developed cultivated (cell-cultured) beef blended with plant-based ingredients to make burgers close to
  the taste of conventional meat. The company used a proprietary platform built on gene-editing tools such as CRISPR to create
  and screen hundreds of animal cell lines each month. Backed by a16z among others, SCiFi Foods raised roughly $40M before
  ceasing operations in June 2024; its cell lines were later released to academia via the Good Food Institute. The company
  is defunct and exposes no public API, developer portal, or technical surface.
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