Why we invested in Turtle Tree Labs

This was one of our first investments, for Prithvi Ventures :) that we invested initially and doubled down on due to high conviction on the founders as first movers in functional dairy alternative ingredients and beyond. They’re uniquely positioned to be a novel r&d technology scientific platform in functional dairy alternative ingredients and other high value product offerings down the road, starting with nutrition, infant formula, nutraceuticals, proteins in milk like lactoferrin.

There’s so much more to this team than all the awards won so far along with the partnership deals in a short span of time. They started their journey in Singapore to navigate the regulatory pathway with active support from the Singapore government, and are now aggressively developing a robust pipeline of functional dairy alternative proteins in the US.

For too long traditional dairy has been a GHG polluter with minimal progress on the Climate front. The dairy alternatives industry is finally making progress on innovation like cell based milk. Turtle Tree is already working on strategic partnerships with large dairy producers and infant formula manufacturers. Their dairy alternative r&d platform will cover the infant formula, supplements, plant based dairy, nutrition, cell culture media towards a non Climate polluter future. They have also achieved good progress on their bioreactor along with contract manufacturing to scale up production.

Both Fengru & Max make a great team, here are just some of their recent achievements:

• July 2020: Won The Liveability Challenge
• October 2020: Won The Entrepreneurship World Cup
• April 2021: Established R&D HQ in US