Apeel Sciences

Food · Goleta, United States · Founded 2012

Plant-derived shelf life extension technology for fresh produce that improves quality and reduces food waste

Valuation $1–2.5B

Revenue $100–500M

Headcount 100–500

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Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Knowledge graph

Market map US Advanced Materials Startups Jun 25, 2026

Market map Circular economy

Talent graph

Apeel Sciences's talent

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Employees mapped 160 incl. 1 AI specialist

Founders /100 quality score

Key operators 24 quality /100

Potential founders likely future founders

Startup mafia 5 alumni-founded startups

Talent movements in · out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

19 investors on Apeel Sciences's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 2 investors entered at this stage

John Greathouse

Jason Spievak

Series A 3 investors entered at this stage

Invoca

Tech Coast Angels

Upfront Ventures

Series B+ 14 investors entered at this stage

Powerplant Ventures

Tao Capital Partners

Katy Perry

S2G Investments

Rock Creek Group

GIC

Temasek

Astanor Ventures

International Finance Corporation

Mirae Asset Capital

Oprah Winfrey

Andreessen Horowitz

DBL Partners

Viking Global Investors

Ownership

Who owns Apeel Sciences

Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (2026). Percentages are indicative.

15% Founders

Upfront Ventures 14%

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Apeel Sciences mafia

Startups founded by Apeel Sciences alumni

Former Apeel Sciences employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

HoneyjarEst. 2025

Michelle MasekUnited States

EGEshan GovilUnited States

Signal score70

BeniEst. 2020

CMCeline MolUnited States

Signal score69

Live Data TechnologiesEst. 2017

Jason SpievakUnited States

Signal score64

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Global footprint

Where Apeel Sciences has talent and traffic

Workforce by country

13 countries with
team presence

🇺🇸 United States56.1%

🇪🇸 Spain20.4%

🇲🇽 Mexico11.1%

🇿🇦 South Africa2.1%

🇵🇪 Peru2.1%

Top 5 of 13 shown

Web traffic by country

12K monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States55%

🇪🇸 Spain18.3%

🇩🇪 Germany5.8%

🇫🇷 France5.8%

🏳️ Russian Federation5.8%

Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$30M patent portfolio · 50 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$30M

1.5% of valuation · 4.3× smaller than top peer Bioceres Crop Solutions ($131M)

50 active patent families

Where Apeel Sciences innovates AgronomyChemistryCoatingData miningData science

Where Apeel Sciences concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Apeel Sciences and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Apeel Sciences

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Apeel Sciences on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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