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The Modern Agriculture Foundation, an Israeli non-profit which promotes entrepreneurship and innovation in the alternative protein industry in Israel and globally, celebrates the sweeping success of its Better Plate alternative protein track within MassChallenge Israel’s 2022 Accelerator program.
Read ReleaseGermany’s leading biotech startup Mushlabs will be working together with Bitburger BreweryGroup, one of the most significant private brewery groups in Germany.
Read ReleaseDIC Corporation has completed investment in Back of the Yards Algae Sciences Inc. (BYAS), a sustainable food technology startup focused on developing innovative extracts and alternative proteins, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Read ReleaseChitin- and chitosan-based scaffolds show promise for improving both the scalability and nutritional value of cell-cultured meat products.
Read ArticleLever China unveiled today early stage investments it has completed in recent months into six new alternative protein companies, expanding its portfolio to a total of 12 startups across plant-based meat and dairy, plant protein, precision and biomass fermentation, and cultivated meat.
Read ReleaseHamburg-based biotech startup Mushlabs has been selected from more than 1,000 startups for the EU's prestigious EIC Accelerator program to receive up to €17.5 million of the program's €382 million in total capital.
Read ReleaseNewlab, the center for applied innovation bringing together experts, industry, and civic leaders to solve systemic challenges with transformative technologies, today announced the launch of their new cellular agriculture venture studio
Read ReleaseBrevel, the leading microalgae-based alternative protein company, today announced it has raised $8.4M in a Seed funding round. The funding will be utilized to build a commercial pilot factory which will serve as the basis for scaling Brevel’s proprietary technology and enhancing R&D capabilities.
Read ReleaseIntegriCulture, a Japanese startup pioneering revolutionary advancements in cellular agriculture, today announced that CELLAMENT™[2], an egg-derived skincare ingredient utilizing its proprietary cell culture technology, has been adopted in new skincare brand l'oeuf by essensebase launched today by BASEPLUS Co., Ltd.
Read ReleaseLeading food technology event series, Future Food-Tech, today announced the 40 startups that will be participating in their Future Food-Tech Alternative Proteins summit taking place in New York on June 21-22.
Read Release- Cellular Agriculture Australia’s Pathways tool will drive and guide more talent into cellular agriculture research- The tool lists key research ‘Problems to Solve’ in the field and matches these to related tertiary qualifications - ‘Majors’ - available in Australia, with direct links to Australian universities that can be filtered by State- The new version includes non-STEM ‘Problems to Solve’, encompassing public perception, policy and regulation, funding and investment, transition research, and commerce - Cellular Agriculture Australia is a nonprofit organisation dedicated to accelerating the cellular agriculture sector in Australia. Their goals are to develop talent pipelines into cellular agriculture, create a connected and collaborative community within the sector, and promote positive awareness of cellular agriculture
Read ReleaseProeon, an India based start-up that produces next generation plant-based proteins that are superior in functional, nutritional and sensory profiles, was selected among hundreds of candidates as one of the World Economic Forum’s “Technology Pioneers”.
Read ReleaseSwedish company Melt&Marble, which uses precision fermentation to produce customized fats for the plant-based sector, has created a non-animal fat with the properties of beef fat.
Read ReleaseBig Idea Ventures, global leader in early-stage investments in the alternative protein sector, revealed its latest accelerator cohort today.
Read ReleaseTechstars-backed materials technology company Gelatex is on the mission to make cultured meat available in supermarkets. As a pioneer in making scaffolds for cultured meat, Gelatex has opened a new research, engineering and manufacturing facility to take the development and production of their nanofibrous materials to the next level. Thus, removing one of the barriers in scaling cultured meat.
Read ReleaseBurcon NutraScience Corporation, a global technology leader in the development of plant-based proteins for foods and beverages, is pleased to announce that it has received a co-investment from Protein Industries Canada for the development of high-quality protein ingredients from sunflower seeds.
Read ReleaseIntegriCulture Inc. performed the first successful cultivation of chicken and duck liver-derived cells in a serum-free basal medium by the CulNet system, which emulates natural inter-organ interactions. The cost of cultivation using IntegriCulture’s basal medium (product name: I-MEM) and CulNet system has been estimated to be about 1/60 of media using animal serum. The company aims to launch cell-cultured foie gras this year as its first line of cell-cultured meat products.
Read ReleaseWhat options are on the food-tech menu for achieving long-term protein security? Cell culture, plants, microorganisms, algae, and fungi may all have roles to play. But from a sustainability and resilience perspective, is there a clear winner?
Read ArticleArkeon Biotechnologies, a Vienna-based ingredients startup setting out to create the most sustainable, nutritious, and ethical food system through gas fermentation and ancient microbes, secures more than US$7 million in an oversubscribed seed round.
Read ReleaseNuCicer, a crop genetics company pioneering ultra-high protein varieties of chickpea, today announced the closing of a $4.5 million Series Seed financing round. Lever VC, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on innovative technologies and brands in the alternative protein space, led NuCicer’s round. Other participants included The House Fund, a fund backed by the University of California Endowment, as well as Trellis Road and Lifely VC.
Read ReleaseGene-recombinant biotechnologies aim to produce key animal proteins at a fraction of the cost of conventional animal husbandry. The implications for research, medicine, food systems, and the climate could be huge. But can these emergent technologies scale quickly enough to spur system-wide change?
Read ArticleFood-tech start-ups are trailblazing the future of food. As talented innovators leverage new technologies to bring novel foods to consumers on a global scale, there has never been a more exciting time to touch, taste and smell the breakthrough novel foods.Future Food-Tech reveals 55 start-ups for your innovation radar, as they take the global summit spotlight in San Francisco on March 24-25.
Read ReleaseThe Cultivate Tomorrow initiative aims to help bridge the gap between industry and academia, organizing students from all disciplines to tackle key challenges through a cellular agriculture-focused hackathon. To conclude the hackathon, the organization will host a virtual pitch day on February 12, 2022 open to everyone interested in the cultivated food industry, biotechnology applications, and sustainable food and agriculture sectors.
Read ReleaseIntegriCulture, with a species-agnostic, large-scale cell culture technology CulNet System, is one step closer to building a universally accessible cellular agriculture platform after raising a total of 7 million USD from 12 investors in a Series A round. The company also aims for the world’s first commercial launch of cell-cultured foie gras in 2022.
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