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Brown Foods

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Founded 2021Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Brown Foods is a Stanford, Rice University and IIT Delhi alumni venture creating UnReal Milk - 'real milk' made using mammalian cell culture, AI enabled. They are the world's 1st company to produce cow-free whole milk in lab (Forbes). Targeting the $700 billion dairy market and $22 billion alternate dairy market with UnReal Milk - which could be converted into butter, cheese, ice-creams etc. and has taste and texture exactly like conventional dairy - unlike any of the plant based milks like oat milk or soy milk. Also, no animal cruelty and 82% lower carbon foot-print!

Using the same technology, they have also created real human milk targeting the $80 billion infant formula market. And who knows if adults also start drinking human milk in future!

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Sohail Gupta

Founder

A Stanford alumnus and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi graduate; Patent holder; 9+ years of work exp. in food and healthcare across India, USA and Middle East (with global brands like Starbucks) and was building the world's 1st personalised food brand recently. His experience as a vegetarian and his spouse's struggle with milk during pregnancy led him to UnReal Milk - leveraging his synthetic biology education, Bio-design training at Stanford and several years of business experience.

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Avhijeet Kapoor

Founder

A passionate bioengineer, always eager to tackle tech hurdles and challenge dogma! Trained in Biotechnology with minors in Computer Science at IIT Delhi; worked at Harvard and CEA Paris; and experienced with control systems and reactor design for robust bioprocess systems. Has additional experience in business consulting for food and healthcare companies such as Epigamia, Novartis, Milkbasket etc., along with a rich perspective on understanding end consumers.

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Bhavna Tandon

Founder

A graduate of Rice University and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi; molecular biology and biochemistry PhD with 3+ years experience working as a scientist on cell culture and model organisms; 6 published papers in internationally recognized journals; passionate about leveraging technology to combat climate change

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5team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedBoston, MA, USA
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