
Founded 2020
Industry
Agriculture
Mike Messersmith
CEO
Christophe Chantre
Co-founder
Grant Gonzalez
Co-founder
Luke MacQueen
Co-founder
Articles
- Tender Food rebrands as Lasso, expands novel spinning tech beyond alt-meat
- Natalie Portman-Backed Tender Food’s Carnivore-Fooling Meat Now in All 11 Locations of Clover Food Lab
- Plant-Based Meat Company Tender Closes $11 Million Series A, Launches Partnership with Clover
- Now Serving Plant Based Meat
- Plant-based meat maker Tender lands $5.4M DOE grant
- Tender Food, Ginkgo Bioworks, and Others Secure Millions in DOE Grants for Low-Carbon Food Innovation
- Ginkgo Bioworks and Tender Foods win DOE grants for alt proteins
- Healey-Driscoll Administration Announces More Than $7.3 Million to Support Massachusetts Manufacturers
- Plant-based meat company spins out new venture with $6.5M
About the company
Lasso is a food technology company building new ways to create structured protein foods using nature-inspired processes. Lasso develops scalable technologies that unlock new textures, formats, and possibilities for protein. By working at the ingredient and process level, Lasso enables food companies to make products that taste better, perform better, and are more efficient to produce.
About the solution
Creating structure in protein is one of the hardest problems in food. Many proteins have strong nutritional value but limited functionality when it comes to texture, alignment, and bite. Lasso has developed proprietary technologies that organize proteins into aligned, fibrous structures using a sustainable and scalable approach. These technologies can be applied across a wide range of protein sources and end applications, giving partners new tools to design differentiated foods without over-processing or unnecessary complexity. Lasso’s platform helps modernize how protein foods are made and opens the door to a new generation of high-quality, structured protein products.

