Shiru

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Founded

2019

Leadership
  • Jasmin Hume, PhD, Founder and CEO
Headquarters

Emeryville, CA

Website

shiru.com

S2G North Star Interim Outcomes Jump to footnote 1
  • Increased availability, accessibility, and/or affordability of healthier foods and nutrition-based solutions
UN SDG Alignment Jump to footnote 2
  • Good Health and Well-Being
Shiru delivers AI-driven ingredient discovery for high-value, sustainable ingredients.

Its AI-enabled discovery platform, Flourish™, maps the performance of 77 million unique, natural proteins for applications in food, beverage, personal care, agriculture, and advanced materials. Named a TIME Best Invention of 2024, Shiru’s technology accelerates discovery from years to months, enabling brands to bring cleaner, more functional ingredients to market without compromising performance. 

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  1. S2G North Star Interim Outcomes reflect areas of strategic alignment with our long-term impact goals. These outcomes are intended to illustrate the types of non-financial progress S2G seeks to support across its portfolio and do not represent company-specific metrics or outcomes. They are not a reflection of investment performance, actual or realized returns, or future financial results.

  2. UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) alignment has been obtained from portfolio companies, internally collected data by S2G and/​or sources outside S2G, and could prove to be incomplete or inaccurate and is current only as of July 31, 2026. S2G makes no representations as to the accuracy or completeness of the information obtained from such portfolio companies and/​or sources and neither S2G nor any of its affiliates takes any responsibility for, and has not independently verified, any such information.