Jaguar Land Rover’s VC arm backed a $2 million round in plant-based leather startup Uncaged Innovations after seeing this 11-slide pitch deck

Jaguar Land Rover’s VC arm backed a $2 million round in plant-based leather startup Uncaged Innovations after seeing this 11-slide pitch deck

A startup creating animal- and plastic-free leather just netted $2 million in a pre-seed round that was backed by Jaguar Land Rover's investment arm InMotion Ventures. US biotech company Uncaged Innovations, founded in 2020, mimics the characteristics of skin proteins with plants. The quality and performance of traditional leather come from the structure of animal proteins, so Uncaged Innovations has developed a way to combine proteins from grain byproducts with …