Meati opens 100K SF ‘mega ranch’ production facility

THORNTON — Boulder-headquartered Meati Foods, a mushroom-based whole-food proteins producer, has opened a 100,000-square-foot production facility in Thornton that the company has dubbed its “mega ranch.”

The facility, which is expected to have production capacity in the tens of millions of pounds by the end of the year, was built with money raised last year in $150 million in a Series C round led by investor Revolution Growth LLC. The round elevated Meati’s total fundraising beyond the quarter-billion-dollar mark, according to Crunchbase data. 

“The next few years will see a seismic shift in how we eat, and Meati’s state-of-the-art, scalable…