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Big Idea Ventures, global leader in early stage investing in the food technology sector, revealed its latest accelerator cohorts today. Seventeen early-stage startups were selected for pre-seed investment as part of Big Idea Ventures’ bi-annual accelerator program.
Read ReleaseEatable Adventures has just announced the launch of its first €50 million fund: Eatable Evolution Fund FCR I. The vehicle will make early and growth-stage investments targeting the most disruptive startups in food and agriculture tech across Europe and Latin America. This will be the biggest fund of its kind in Spain and one of the top 3 in Europe.
Read ReleaseEurope's first company for cultivated fish onboards renowned expert to speed up large-scale production of cultivated fish products.
Read ReleaseFast-growing Russian plant-based meat startup Welldone announced today the close of a $1.5 million funding round to significantly expand production capacity to meet the company’s rapid growth in sales. The round was led by Phystech Ventures, an international fund investing in deep tech startups globally, with participation from Lever VC, a leading global investor in the alternative protein category.
Read ReleaseSwiss think tank Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute announces the launch of their new International Food Innovation Conference, an annual gathering on the future of nutrition covering technical innovation as well as societal changes in the ecosystem of food.
Read ReleaseEatable Adventures presents the 5 startups accelerated, whose value multiplied by a factor of 6.3 after the program
Read ReleaseChromologics is developing a bio-based portfolio of natural colorants via a fungal biotech platform for the food market, tapping into a € 4.6B market opportunity. The company received an additional € 4M from Blue Horizon Ventures, Novo Seeds, Nordic Food Tech, and angel investor Giampaolo Cagnin. The total seed round, which also included Vækstfonden, was € 6M.
Read ReleaseMeelunie, a leading global supplier of plant-based ingredients, has announced it will be opening a fava protein isolate manufacturing facility in Hedensted, Denmark in October 2022.
Read ReleasePascual, a leading Spanish manufacturer of dairy products and beverages, has launched Mylkcubator, the first global incubation program for cellular agriculture technologies in the dairy industry.
Read ReleaseVly, provider of a pea-based milk alternative, has today announced an investment of €6.1M from FoodTech investors Five Seasons Ventures, alongside previous investors Global Founders Capital and Good Seed Ventures.
Read ReleaseSpecialty enzyme company, Biocatalysts Ltd, have delivered the first customer product that was fermented and processed in their state-of-the-art enzyme manufacturing facility.
Read ReleaseSince its successful launch in January, Delivery Hero-backed DX Ventures has focused on becoming a trusted venture capital partner for innovative technology startups across a diverse range of industries. With its investment in Bluu Biosciences as part of the company’s seed funding round, DX Ventures continues to support efforts to create a more sustainable global food system.
Read ReleaseSkretting is one step closer to validating a new novel ingredient and reaching our Sustainability RoadMap 2025 ambition. eniferBio, the Finnish biotech start-up and winner of the 2020 Nutreco Feed & Food Tech Challenge, today announced the successful completion of process piloting trials and the beginning of the next phase.
Read ReleaseBerlin-based biotech startup Bluu Biosciences has closed its seed funding round at 7 million euros less than ten months after its foundation. Bluu Biosciences is the first company in Europe to specialize in the development and production of cell-based fish.
Read ReleaseMeatable, the cultivated meat startup, has closed $47 million USD in its Series A funding round, bringing the company’s total funding to $60 million. Meatable finalized its first showcase product in 2020 and aims to use the new funds to advance small-scale production at the Biotech Campus Delft and to diversify its product portfolio.
Read ReleaseZyrcular Foods, a company devoted to the sustainable production and distribution of foods based on plant protein, has started production at an alternative protein plant in the town of Seva, in the Osona region of Barcelona province.
Read ReleaseUK-based Hoxton Farms has announced a £2.7 million seed round to cultivate animal fat and solve an urgent issue for the rapidly growing meat alternatives market.
Read ReleaseCPI, an independent technology innovation centre and founding member of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, today announced its plans to establish a Novel Food, Feed and Nutraceuticals Innovation Centre of Excellence, catalysed by £4 million in funding from the Tees Valley Mayor and Combined Authority Cabinet.
Read ReleaseUK-based startup CellulaREvolution has announced new funding to accelerate development of their technology which promises to solve key scalability challenges in cell-based meat production.
Read ArticleTechnology disrupter CellulaREvolution, which aims to revolutionise the way cells are grown in labs, has raised £1million from a set of strategic investors including CPT Capital, Stephan Schmidt, Orange Light Ventures, and funds managed by Northstar Ventures, the North East Innovation Fund supported by the European Regional Development Fund and the newly launched Northern Accelerator Seed Investment Fund (NASIF).
Read ReleaseKerry, the Taste & Nutrition company, is pleased to release a research white paper on the exciting emerging topic of protein snack bar development and manufacture. Entitled “Choosing the Right Protein for Your Snack Bar,” the paper examines the rapidly expanding market for snack bars that provide a quality hit of protein and a wide variety of new tastes. In addition, the paper reviews the latest trends in consumer preference in the area of ingredients and bar tastes, important trends and regional regulations in formulation, and the application of plant, dairy and mixed protein in new bar concepts.
Read ReleaseMoolec Science is a newly formed company using molecular farming to introduce a hybrid concept between plant-based and cell-based technologies in the alternative proteins space. With a proof of concept for the cheese market, the team is known for being the first to produce bovine chymosin in safflower, a functional protein commercialized under the SPC brand. A family of international patents currently covers this platform, with SPC events fully de-regulated for cost-effective large-scale production.
Read ReleaseThe growing demand for food and sustainable food production are global challenges. A significant part of the problem is the lack of sustainably produced protein feed. eniferBio has developed a new and sustainable production process for a high-quality fish feed ingredient and recently received funding for its solution from two funds, Nordic FoodTech VC and Voima Ventures.
Read ReleaseIn 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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