
His first company, a social media app called Monkey, was acquired in 2017. Pasternak gained international attention for becoming the youngest tech entrepreneur to receive funding from Silicon Valley at just 15 years old. The brand launched in the summer of 2019, four years after Mr. Simulate also is developing a spicy variety of Nuggs. “The food system is in need of a complete reinvention, and we think the best way to change it is to recreate the products we like, using and advancing what nature gave us with better technology.” “I'm beyond thrilled to join the Simulate team,” Mr. (Bloomberg) Simulate, a startup that makes faux-chicken nuggets with ambitions to expand into other meat alternatives, raised 50 million in a funding round led by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s venture firm Seven Seven Six. There have even been different releases of NUGGS NUGGS 1.1. They’re also referred to as a chicken nugget simulation and they’re made with advanced soy protein technology. We manufacture large format tiles to simulate the appearance of poured-in-place. SIMULATE, the company behind the plant-based chicken nuggets aptly named NUGGS, calls them The Tesla of Chicken. Saint-Denis has spearheaded the development of new products worth more than $900 million in annual sales in North America and earned more than 14 patents in the fields of functional ingredients, enzyme and strained nutrition technology, food sweetening systems and probiotics. Faux-Chicken Maker Simulate Is Valued at More Than 250 Million. A plate of JUST, Incs cultured chicken nuggets. New product development will be led by recently appointed chief technology officer Thierry Saint-Denis, who previously was senior director of research and innovation at Danone. "Nuggs is just a taste of what the future holds, with new products around the corner." “We're pumped to launch new nutrition technologies over the next few months under our new parent company, Simulate,” Mr. Simulate’s existing investors include McCain Foods, Rainfall Ventures, Maven Ventures and NOMO Ventures.
