User:Mcastanho707/Arturo Elizondo

Arturo Elizondo born April 1992 (aged 31) is an Latino-American entrepreneur who has started a nontraditional path to success. Graduating with a degree in Government and Comparative Politics from Harvard University, Elizondo had already worked as an intern in the White House and attended school in Geneva, Switzerland. While attending school, he came to the realization that a new path was to be followed to bring about change that he wanted to see in the world, which drove him to become the co-founder and CEO of The EVERY Company. In addition to the many accomplishments he has founded at The EVERY Company, Arturo has recently made the Forbes 30 under 30 list. There, he provides informative insight into the knowledge and business of plant-based proteins.

Arturo Elizondo was born in Laredo, Texas where he lived on both sides of the US-Mexico border as a child.

Clara Foods Co.
In 2014, Arturo Elizondo went to San Francisco to work towards his goal after learning the global impact animal agriculture has on our food system. There, he met co-founders David Anchel and Isha Datar through the New Harvest research community and in late 2014, Clara Foods was created in South San Francisco, California. Clara Foods' goal is to develop ethical and sustainable proteins that will help solve the global impact and environmental destruction it causes. The next 7 years were used on research and development on fermentation technology and proteins.

And in 2021, the company launched the first animal-free bioidentical pepsin for industrial and commercial use, creating new opportunities towards vegan alternatives.

The Every Company
After launching their animal-free pepsin, Clara Foods was rebranded to The EVERY Company to better convey their vision of animal-free proteins into the food system. With the pepsin launched, the company's goal is to accelerate the world's transition to animal-free protein, by decoupling proteins from animals, using yeast to convert sugar into proteins similar to animals. The EVERY Company released its first animal-free egg protein product, EVERY ClearEgg, in 2021. The EVERY ClearEgg, contains all the nutrition that traditional eggs have and can be a replacement in baking, nutrition, and industrial use. This allows more vegan alternatives in popular egg-based foods. The product was a success and helped The EVERY Company create more animal-free products.

Michroma
In March of 2022, Elizondo was appointed as a Business Advisor for Michroma, a foodtech startup founded in 2019 aiming to create naturally occurring ingredients,food coloring, and flavoring from sustainably developed fungal-based biofactories. Elizondo's experience with the biotech food industry made himself a viable asset to advise the company through their rapid growth in the coming years.