newswireNovel Farms|
Novel Farms Reveals World's First Marbled Cultivated Pork Loin
Novel Farms, a food technology startup based in Berkeley, California, unveils today the first-ever marbled cultivated pork loin.
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newswireCellular Agriculture Australia|
New Australian-First Online Course in Cellular Agriculture to Help Students and Professionals Break into the Sector
Cellular Agriculture Australia’s new online course will provide students and professionals the foundational knowledge to make their own impact in cellular agriculture, whether it be joining a company, investing in the sector, or pursuing further education in the area
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Bitburger Brewery Group and Mushlabs announce collaboration
Germany’s leading biotech startup Mushlabs will be working together with Bitburger BreweryGroup, one of the most significant private brewery groups in Germany.
Read ReleasenewswireThe New|
Minerva Foods Exec André Carvalho Appointed CEO of Pioneering Brazilian Plant-Based Meat Brand The New
The New, known for its top-quality and better-for-you plant based meat and ready-meal lines, taps meat industry veteran for next stage of growth
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Chitin: Providing structure and biofunction to cell-cultured meat
Chitin- and chitosan-based scaffolds show promise for improving both the scalability and nutritional value of cell-cultured meat products.
Read ArticlenewswireLever VC|
Lever China Announces Investments in Six New Alternative Protein Companies
Lever 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 ReleasenewswireMushlabs|
German biotech startup Mushlabs receives millions in EIC funding
Hamburg-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 ReleasenewswireNewlab|
Four Spaces to Launch B2B Businesses in Cellular Agriculture
Newlab, 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 ReleasenewswireEat Just|
GOOD Meat Breaks Ground on Largest Cultivated Meat Facility in Asia
GOOD Meat, the cultivated meat division of Eat Just, Inc., a company that applies cutting-edge science and technology on a mission to create healthier, more sustainable foods, broke ground today on the largest cultivated meat production center in Asia. The complex, scheduled to open in Q1 2023 at JTC Bedok Food City, will have the capacity to produce tens of thousands of pounds of meat from cells, without the need to slaughter a single animal.
Read ReleasenewswireUpside Foods|
UPSIDE Foods Appoints Veteran Food and Tech Leader Sheetal Shah as Senior Vice President of Supply Chain & Manufacturing
UPSIDE Foods, the leading company in the cultivated meat, poultry and seafood industry, has announced the appointment of Sheetal Shah as Senior Vice President of Supply Chain and Manufacturing. This news comes on the heels of UPSIDE announcing its record-breaking $400 million Series C round that enables the company to unlock the industry’s biggest opportunities around scale, supply chain, and consumer adoption.
Read ReleasenewswireCocuus System Iberica|
Spanish startup Cocuus raises €2,5M in Funding to scale its 3D bioprinting technology for the production of alternative proteins
Spanish startup Cocuus has raised 2,5 million euros in its Pre Series A funding round for its innovative process for producing plant or cell-based animal protein food analogs.
Read ReleasenewswireFuture Food-Tech|
40 Alt-Protein Start-Ups Featured at New York’s Future Food-Tech Summit
Leading 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 ReleasenewswireOrbillion Bio|
Orbillion's big Davos announcement: their cultured meat products will achieve price parity by 2026
Orbillion’s cell-cultured meats will reach price parity in 2026, and commodity pricing for beef in 2030. The recent announcement comes just days before CEO and Co-Founder, Patricia Bubner, PhD, will present in Davos, Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum (WEF) is holding its annual meeting. Bubner will share how they plan to democratize access to delicious and healthful cell-cultured meat to help address food insecurity.
Read ReleasenewswireCellular Agriculture Australia|
'Pathways' tool Version 2 released to help students and professionals break into cellular agriculture
- 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 ReleasenewswireLever VC|
China Targets Alternative Protein Development In New Bioeconomy Plan
On Tuesday, China's main economic regulator unveiled a five-year plan to boost the bioeconomy, highlighting alternative protein sources as a critical sector to grow in order to achieve food security and decarbonisation goals.
Read ReleasenewswireMelt&Marble|
Melt&Marble advances in the production of fermentation-derived animal fats – and secures a €5M round
Swedish 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 ReleasenewswireBig Idea Ventures|
Alternative protein investor Big Idea Ventures reveals latest accelerator cohort
Big Idea Ventures, global leader in early-stage investments in the alternative protein sector, revealed its latest accelerator cohort today.
Read ReleasenewswireGelatex|
Gelatex ready to produce scaffolds for 300 tons of cultured meat
Techstars-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 ReleasenewswireChina Cellular Agriculture Forum|
Unifying global efforts to advance regulation, the first China Cellular Agriculture Forum was held with success
The first China Cellular Agriculture Forum discussion panel was held on April 19, Beijing time. The panel was a collaborative success, with attendees from around 30 organizations1, representing leading cultivated meat companies, ecosystem builders, research institutions, and upstream and downstream partners from both within and outside of China.
Read ReleasenewswireBluu Seafood|
CellX and Bluu Seafood join forces: China's pioneer in cultivated meat and Europe's pioneer in cultivated fish kick off strategic partnership
Bluu Seafood and CellX are joining forces as part of a strategic partnership to support each other along the whole value chain when expanding into the respective markets – this ranges from the procurement of raw materials to the construction of production facilities and possible sales partnerships.
Read ReleasenewswireIntegriCulture|
Commercial launch of food grade basal medium, serum-free culture of chicken and duck liver-derived cells by CulNet
IntegriCulture 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 ReleasenewswireMogale Meat Company|
Africa’s first cultivated chicken produced in South Africa
Mogale Meat, a South-African cellular food-tech company, and their team showcased Africa’s first cultivated chicken on March 30th, 2022. This action not only represents a first for Africa, but also the birth of a major new technological drive to produce more essential animal protein for people. Cultivated meat is a potential game-changer for the planet, and more specifically for Africa’s biodiversity and wildlife conservation.
Read ReleasenewswireLever VC|
China’s President Xi: Alternative Protein Crucial To China’s Food Security
Chinese President Xi Jinping highlights alternative protein as important for food security and sustainability in a new speech to government officials
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Reimagining global protein production for the 21st century
What 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?
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