UPSIDE Foods

UPSIDE Foods is an Emeryville, California-based cultivated meat company (The UPSIDE Group Inc.) that grows real meat directly from animal cells - no farm, no slaughter. Its flagship product is UPSIDE Chicken, cultivated chicken cleared for sale in the United States following FDA review, offered through foodservice partners, with public tours of its EPIC (Engineering, Production, and Innovation Center) facility. Added to the API Evangelist network as a Norwest Venture Partners portfolio company; enrichment probing found no public developer API, SDK, developer portal, GitHub organization, or event surface.

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

UPSIDE Foods’ developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 4 more developer resources.

12.3/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyFoodCultivated MeatFood TechnologyBiotechnologyFoodserviceSustainability

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 12.3/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
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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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Upsidefoods Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: upsidefoods
name: UPSIDE Foods
description: UPSIDE Foods is an Emeryville, California-based cultivated meat company (The UPSIDE Group Inc.) that grows real
  meat directly from animal cells - no farm, no slaughter. Its flagship product is UPSIDE Chicken, cultivated chicken cleared
  for sale in the United States following FDA review, offered through foodservice partners, with public tours of its EPIC
  (Engineering, Production, and Innovation Center) facility. Added to the API Evangelist network as a Norwest Venture Partners
  portfolio company; enrichment probing found no public developer API, SDK, developer portal, GitHub organization, or event
  surface.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/upsidefoods/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- norwest-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
image: https://upsidefoods.com/wp-content/uploads/cover.png
tags:
- Company
- Food
- Cultivated Meat
- Food Technology
- Biotechnology
- Foodservice
- Sustainability
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://upsidefoods.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://upsidefoods.com/blog/
- type: Support
  url: https://upsidefoods.com/contact/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://upsidefoods.com/privacy/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://upsidefoods.com/terms-of-service/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/upsidefoods-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1