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Rarely do retail investors have the opportunity to gain exposure and access to a new technology this early. That’s partly because Agronomics — which bills itself as “a thematic investment play into the clean meat sector” — is one of the only publicly traded options available to those who see the potential in cell-cultured meat.
Read ArticleInnovators from around the world submitted their solutions to solve the challenges set by Quorn Foods and Roquette.
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 ReleaseAt Future Food-Tech Alternative Proteins on June 22-23, the summit will spotlight twenty one game-changing solutions in the summit’s Start-Up Arena, Innovation Challenge Finale with Quorn Foods and Roquette, Start-Up TechHub, Fireside Chats and Step-Up to the Plate cooking demonstrations.
Read ReleaseAlthough antibiotics are generally thought of in the context of treating infections within our healthcare systems, that’s not where most are actually used. Globally, around 73% of all antibiotics are used in animals grown for food.
Read ArticleSVCMS, LLC, a California based company focused on media and networking surrounding cell-cultured meat and future food technology, announces a webinar series, CMS Astro, planned for Thursday, April 29, 2021 to be held online and in a digital format.
Read ReleaseGlobal alternative protein venture capital fund Lever VC announced today the recent completion of a $46 million fourth close of its Lever VC Fund I. The Fund’s third and fourth close included the addition of three corporate strategic investors from Europe and Asia—including one of the world’s largest Agri-Food companies, with annual revenue over $50 billion USD—as well as capital from NFL and NBA athletes, British nobility, and a global range of family offices.
Read ReleaseFuture Food-Tech has announced two Innovation Challenges in partnership with Quorn Foods and Roquette to unlock new talent within the industry and enable opportunities for collaboration.
Read ReleaseAmbitious food-tech start-ups FIBERVITA and 77 FOODS have been announced as the two winners, after over 100 international entries were received across the two challenges.
Read ReleaseAt Future Food-Tech’s flagship summit on March 11-12, nineteen start-ups will showcase their breakthrough technologies, their transformative solutions and, above all, their passion to drive forward change across the most pressing topics in the industry: Gut Health and the Microbiome, Plant-Based Alternatives, Cell-Based Proteins, Ingredient Innovation, Food Waste and the Supply Chain.
Read ReleaseInvestor and author Jim Mellon talks one-on-one with Doug Grant, host of the Brave New Meat podcast, to discuss his new book, Moo’s Law, and the investment opportunity in cultivated meat.
Read ArticleThe confluence of the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, the rapid development of new food technologies and the rising global demand for protein mean that we are on the cusp of a huge and profitable investment wave into new forms of agriculture. The greatest beneficiaries of this investment wave will be cultured and plant-based foods.
Read ArticleWhat I’ve learned through my first eleven Brave New Meat podcast interviews with founders and investors in the cultured meat industry
Read ArticleFuture Food-Tech has announced an Innovation Challenge in partnership with Kellogg Company and Unilever to unlock new talent within the industry and enable opportunities for collaboration. The Innovation Challenge offers food-tech innovators from around the world the opportunity to showcase their solution in plant-based meat and dairy alternatives, and digestive wellness. After an in-depth shortlisting process, selected finalists will pitch their solution to the challenge partners and global audience during the live-streamed virtual Future Food-Tech Summit on March 11-12, 2021.
Read ReleaseThe Mills Fabrica is partnering with Bolt Threads to launch a new report titled “Synbio Playbook for Techstyle Startups – A Complete Guide for Founders”. The report synthesizes learnings and findings from The Mills Fabrica’s engagement with multiple food/fashion tech startups and portfolio companies as well as Bolt Threads’ expertise and experience in scaling up synthetic biology technologies to go-to market. The report also highlights learnings from case studies of successful innovators such as Impossible Foods, Perfect Day, and Renewcell, sharing industry-related challenges and tips.
Read ReleaseBy optimizing culture media ingredients specifically for cultivated meat production, and by producing those ingredients at scale, costs may be reduced to as little as $0.24 per liter. This would enable cell-cultured meat produced in bioreactors to reach prices competitive with their animal-based counterparts. But investment and demand needed to reach those economies of scale remain a constraint on lowering cultivated meat production costs.
Read ArticleCultured insect meat products might look more like normal burgers and steaks than you’d expect. But what is entomoculture, why might we need it, how does it work, and who’s leading the research? Prodigious young science writer and New Harvest summer intern, Avery Parkinson, answers all your questions.
Read ArticleIt’s a sick and tragic sight. Across the US, dairy producers are currently dumping tens of thousands of gallons of milk into fields and lagoons, as demand continues to plummet. It makes me think about the country’s more than 9 million dairy cows, forced to live out their highly unnatural lives, in dark, cramped milk-making prisons, often sick and in pain — just to keep pumping out a useless commodity. The same could be said of the US meat industry, which slaughters 9.59 billion land animals a year. To make matters worse, President Trump ordered slaughterhouses to stay open despite the clear danger to public health. This is something we can fix.
Read ArticleRadicle Growth, an acceleration fund, and Syngenta, a leading agriculture company helping to improve global food security, today announced the launch of The Radicle Protein Challenge by Syngenta.
Read ReleaseIn 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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