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Lever China Fund Announces Investments in Five Pioneering Plant-Based and Cultivated Meat Startups
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Lever China Fund Announces Investments in Five Pioneering Plant-Based and Cultivated Meat Startups

The Lever China Alternative Protein Fund announced today it has completed its first five investments in pioneering early stage alternative protein companies in China. The Lever China Alternative Protein Fund was launched in early 2020 by Lever VC, a leading global alternative protein venture capital fund whose partners were early investors in Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, and Lever Foods, a Shanghai-based consultancy that advises on the alternative protein space.

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Future Food Studio by Eat Just opens its doors in Shanghai
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Future Food Studio by Eat Just opens its doors in Shanghai

Eat Just is excited to announce the opening of its first-ever Future Food Studio in China— the country’s first 100% plant-based culinary studio, featuring dishes made with JUST Egg, an entirely plant-based egg alternative that cooks and looks like conventional chicken eggs. At the Future Food Studio, you will learn how to cook delicious plant-based dishes without sacrificing flavor, nutrition and quality; getting us closer to the goal of halving our individual meat consumption by 2030.

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Tiamat Sciences: Using plants in place of bioreactors to meet the future needs of cellular agriculture
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Tiamat Sciences: Using plants in place of bioreactors to meet the future needs of cellular agriculture

In 2040, one third of the meat on our plates could be grown outside of animals, drastically reducing the leading sources of CO2 emissions and water pollution, while answering the question of how to feed a global population of nine billion. Cellular agriculture companies such as Memphis Meats, BlueNalu, and Mosa Meat are racing to bring their products to market, but they are still missing a key ingredient: affordable culture media available in large quantities. Brussels-based startup Tiamat Sciences believes their technology platform could become the best option to bridge that gap.

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The behind-the-scenes story of the world’s first cultured meat sale
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The behind-the-scenes story of the world’s first cultured meat sale

On December 29, 2017, just two days before New Year’s Eve, Josh Tetrick, the CEO of JUST, and his golden retriever, Elie, boarded a nonstop KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight in San Francisco that would take him halfway around the world to Amsterdam, where he hoped to make the first commercial sale of cell-cultured meat. This article is an excerpt from BILLION DOLLAR BURGER: Inside Big Tech’s Race for the Future of Food by Chase Purdy, with permission from Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © 2020 by Chase Purdy.

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Cultivated abundance: The man who saved a billion lives
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Cultivated abundance: The man who saved a billion lives

In an eponymous book published in 1968, Stanford University Professor Paul R. Ehrlich noted that the rate of population growth would outpace agricultural production, leading to widespread famine and subsequent suffering in the 1970s and 1980s. Many now look back at that prediction and shame it as another example of fear-mongering about a Malthusian catastrophe that has been often repeated throughout history but never come to pass. This post comes from my upcoming book, Cultivated Abundance, which will be published by New Degree Press in July 2020.

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Innovative North East tech disruptor secures funding to scale globally
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Innovative North East tech disruptor secures funding to scale globally

Northstar-backed technology disruptor CellulaREvolution, which aims to revolutionise the way cells are grown at industrial scale, has secured £380,000 in funding to grow the company - a spin out from Newcastle University. CellulaREvolution has identified a significant opportunity in how to make the culturing of cells more efficient and affordable, which will benefit medical and pharmaceutical industries, and also the fast-increasing interest in cultured meat.

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