Kingdom
Natural functional ingredients that actually work
What they do
Pet brands lack clinically validated functional ingredients to effectively address unmet pet health needs and support credible marketing claims.
Kingdom develops and sells Superculture® postbiotic ingredients (e.g., Pet Oral and Pet Immune) that are clinically validated to target root causes of pet health issues.
Pet food, supplement, and pet care brands that formulate products for dogs and cats.
Founders
I'm a co-founder of Kingdom. Previously, I co-founded two consumer tech startups that were acquired by public companies (ArmorHub in 2014 and A Plus in 2016). Throughout my life I've dealt with a set of health issues related to my microbiome, and became a microbiome researcher in 2016 to develop deep expertise in the area. I deferred my PhD at MIT to co-found Kingdom in 2019, with the goal of harnessing natural microbes to address unmet health needs.
I'm a co-founder of Kingdom. I received my PhD from Columbia supported by Hertz and NSF fellowships, and published 8+ first author papers in the microbiome and genomics fields (Science, Nature Biotech, Nature Methods, and more). I also spent time at the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation working on childhood malnutrition, and co-founded a edtech company in college (STEAMtrax) that was acquired by a public company.
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Company timeline
- Founded2019
- YC batchSummer 2020
- StatusActive
- Team size18 people
- LocationNew York, NY, USA
