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Endless West
Molecular spirit production
- 21-100 employees
- B2C
- B2B
- Sustainability
- Food
- Science
- Dogpatch, San Francisco, CA
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Company mission
To boldly create what no one has created before: a world forged with new frontiers and beverages.
Our take
Endless West is looking to radically disrupt the alcoholic drinks industry by using analytical chemistry and spectometry to reverse engineer spirits. The team isolate the key molecules creating flavor, color, and mouth-feel, and extract them from alternative natural sources. The result is a comparable product that can be achieved with a fraction of the time and cost, using substantially less water and agricultural land, and producing fewer emissions.
The company’s first products, Glyph whiskey and Kazoku, are already on the market, and provide a useful demo for Endless West’s end goal. The aim is to partner with beverage companies looking to cut down costs or boost green credentials by switching out existing molecule sources for more cost and labor efficient ones - or even just create digital archives of their products.
The company has branched out into private-label spirit manufacturing with Blank Label, Endless West’s B2B arm. This will help it establish a firm business foundation to compete with similar molecular reverse-engineering foodtech companies like Voyage Foods and Atomo (looking at food and coffee respectively). If Endless West can scale up its production and business relationships, it could carve out a lucrative and novel niche for itself.
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Benefits
- Equity for all full-time employees
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401K
- Entry into the Endless West Ambassador’s Program
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Dependent Care FSA (DCFSA), Commuter Benefits, and Life Insurance
- Company-sponsored happy hours and team events
Company values
- Authenticity - We’re transparent about who we are, what we make, and what makes us different. Our work builds off the past with an eye on the future
- Curiosity - We are inquisitive by nature and happiest when learning. We’re unafraid to be wrong, but eager to get things right
- Exploration - Where others see boundaries, we seek frontiers. We are optimists inspired by the power of science to make change
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2022
$60m
SERIES C
Apr 2021
$21m
SERIES B
Total funding: $93.7m
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Leadership
Alec Lee
(CEO)Co-founded M Prep and Extem - the latter a commercialization of technology for academic tissue engineering research applications.
Mardonn Chua
(CTO)Completed a biotechnology degree at the University of British Columbia, and co-founded Extem.
Josh Decolongon
(CPO)A Sommelier who worked as a Sales Associate at Liberty Wine Merchants, alongside co-founding Cork Affairs (where he currently still works). For the past decade has maintained a wine review blog.