GlobeNewswire / Shiru · Jun 2025
Shiru announced it was selected as a 2025 Technology Pioneer, reinforcing its positioning as an AI-powered ingredient discovery leader.
Shiru leverages ML to create proteins to feed the world sustainably.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Shiru is a private biotechnology / food-tech company that uses AI, bioinformatics, and precision biology to discover and commercialize natural, scalable protein-based ingredients across food, personal care, agriculture, and materials.
Primary product
ProteinDiscovery.ai, Shiru's AI-powered protein discovery marketplace/platform; flagship ingredient OleoPro
Founded
2019
Headquarters
Alameda, California, United States
Team size
11-50
Industry
Biotechnology Research
Sub-industry
AI-powered ingredient discovery / food biotechnology
Offices
850 Marina Village Pkwy, Suite 100, Alameda, CA 94501, United States
Berkeley, CA, United States
San Francisco, CA, United States
Business model
ingredient sales
co-development partnerships
technology licensing
platform-as-a-service / discovery services
sample sales
Funding
Stage
Series B
Total raised
$36.7M
Latest round
Series B · Nov 2024
Latest amount
$16M
Nov 2024 · S2G Ventures
Oct 2021 · S2G Ventures
Grant / Elizabeth Elting Venture Fund Award
May 2021 · Elizabeth Elting Venture Fund
Oct 2019 · Lux Capital
People & investors
Leadership
Founder and CEO
Vice President, Research and Development
Director of Machine Learning
Fractional CFO & Strategic Advisor
Work & culture
Mission-driven, high-trust, low-ego, and science-heavy; the company emphasizes passion, grit, integrity, rapid learning, and interdisciplinary collaboration across science, data, and commercialization.
Compensation
Public postings say Shiru offers competitive compensation, employee benefits, and an attractive equity package; no public salary bands were found.
Benefits
competitive compensation
employee benefits
attractive equity package
Product & market
Pricing
Sample orders for ingredients; flexible licensing and custom partnership agreements; co-development / platform access pricing is not publicly disclosed.
Differentiators
- —Proprietary Flourish™ / ProteinDiscovery.ai platform
- —Large natural-protein library (33M+ candidates cited publicly)
- —AI-driven discovery that compresses long R&D cycles into months/1-2 years
- —Commercially scalable, nature-inspired ingredients
- —Multiple monetization paths: ingredients, licensing, and partnerships
- —Flagship structured-fat ingredient OleoPro
- —Asset-light, partner-led commercialization model
Technology
AI
machine learning
bioinformatics
precision biology
computational biology
industrial fermentation
bioprocessing
Snowflake
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Docker
Kubernetes
Apache Airflow
dbt
GitHub Actions
GitLab
Hugging Face
Elasticsearch
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Customers
Puratos
Griffith Foods
Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America
global CPG companies
food and beverage companies
Competitors
Brightseed
Geltor
MycoTechnology
Oobli
Alpine Bio
SYMATESE
Miruku
Cytovance Biologics
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Public estimates conflict: roughly $0.44M ARR (GetLatka, Sep 2025) to about $3.3M annual revenue (CompWorth / Growjo); conservative public read is sub-$1M ARR.
Latest news
PR Newswire · Mar 2025
Shiru said the partnership expands its manufacturing capabilities and broadens commercialization of novel proteins via GreenLab's corn expression platform.
PR Newswire · Jan 2025
Shiru launched an RFP to find a beverage partner for a natural sugar replacement, highlighting its licensing / partnership monetization model.
PR Newswire · Nov 2024
The company announced a $16 million Series B led by S2G Ventures, bringing total funding to roughly $36 million.
Business Wire · May 2024
Shiru unveiled ProteinDiscovery.ai as a protein marketplace and discovery platform that lets users search, pilot, and buy molecules.
Jobs and careers at Shiru
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On-site
Alameda, CA
6y ago
On-site
Full-time