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Eat Beyond Global Holdings·Jan 21, 2021

Eat Beyond Adds Above Food to its Portfolio

Eat Beyond Global Holdings is announcing that it has completed an investment in Above Food. Above Food develops and distributes premium, whole plant alternatives to meat and dairy by creating delicious, nutrient-dense consumer products and branded ingredients. It uses a proprietary blend of plant proteins created from heirloom pulses and gluten free grains.

Plant-BasedBusiness

TurtleTree Labs·Dec 17, 2020

TurtleTree Labs raises US$6.2 million in Pre-A funding round

TurtleTree Labs, the biotech company pioneering the method to produce milk using cell-based technology, has just announced the close of an oversubscribed $6.2 million Pre-A funding round from new and existing global investors including Green Monday Ventures, Eat Beyond Global, KBW Ventures, and Verso Capital.

Cell-BasedBusiness

Avant Meats·Dec 3, 2020

China’s leading cultivated meat company Avant nets US$3.1 million in funding to commercialize cultivated fish

Cultivated meat biotechnology start-up Avant today announced it has closed a US$3.1 million seed funding round to fuel R&D and commercialization of its cultivated fish products. The funding round saw participation from prominent Greater China investors including China Venture Capital, AngelHub, and ParticleX, as well as western alternative protein investors Lever VC, CPT Capital, Loyal VC, Artesian, and 208 Seed Ventures. Strategic food investors PTG Food, a consortium of fast-growing and progressive food businesses across Asia Pacific with a global reach, and Markus Haefeli, Chairman of Regal Springs, the world’s largest responsible tilapia producer, also participated in the round.

Cell-BasedBusiness

Harvest Returns·Nov 17, 2020

New York Microalgae Company Closes Capital Raise via Harvest Returns Platform

Brooklyn, New York-based We Are The New Farmers, Inc. announced today that it has successfully completed a pre-seed round totaling $335,000 on the Harvest Returns agriculture crowdfunding platform. We Are The New Farmers is a controlled-environment agriculture company that produces spirulina microalgae, one of the most nutrient dense foods on the planet. The climate change and disaster resilient technology the farm utilizes is unparalleled in sustainability and cost-efficiency. The company plans to use the capital raised to build a new facility to increase their production.

AlgaeBusiness

Eat Beyond Global Holdings·Nov 16, 2020

Eat Beyond Global Holdings to Commence Trading on the CSE Under the Symbol 'EATS'

Eat Beyond Global Holdings Inc., an investment issuer focused on the global plant-based and alternative food sector, is announcing that it has received approval to list its company’s common shares on the Canadian Securities Exchange. The common shares will commence trading under the trading symbol "EATS" on November 17, 2020. Eat Beyond is the first investment issuer in Canada focused solely on identifying and acquiring equity in diverse global companies in this sector, which includes plant-based proteins, fermented proteins, cultured proteins/agriculture, food tech, and consumer packaged goods as well as cell agriculture and other experimental projects.

Cell-BasedPlant-BasedBusiness

Enifer·Oct 30, 2020

New VTT-based startup company eniferBio producing protein from biorefinery by-products received more than one million euros in funding

The 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.

FungiBusiness

Lever VC·Sep 28, 2020

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.

Cell-BasedPlant-BasedBusiness

Lever VC·Aug 18, 2020

Investors in Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods Launch New Fund Targeting the Fast-Growing Global Alternative Protein Sector

Lever VC announces first close of Lever VC Fund I; Fund has US$23 million in committed capital and a portfolio of ten trailblazing startups across the U.S., Europe and Asia

Cell-BasedPlant-BasedBusiness

Radicle Growth·May 14, 2020

Radicle Growth and Syngenta Launch $1.25m Fund to Support the Future of Protein

Radicle 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.

Cell-BasedPlant-BasedBusiness

Enough·Apr 30, 2020

New first-of-its-kind zero-waste biorefinery project to produce proteins for food from feedstocks

Ten partners from industry and research launch a project (known as ‘PLENITUDE’) to build a first-of-its-kind, large-scale, integrated biorefinery facility to produce proteins for food from low-cost sustainable feedstocks.

MicrobialFungiBusiness

Nature's Fynd·Mar 24, 2020

Nature’s Fynd Begins Production, Raises $80 Million Series B to Commercialize a New-to-the-World Protein

Generation Investment Management and Breakthrough Energy Ventures co-lead investment in alternative meat and dairy company

MicrobialFungiBusiness

CellRev·Nov 22, 2019

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.

Cell-BasedBusiness

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Eat Beyond Adds Above Food to its Portfolio

TurtleTree Labs raises US$6.2 million in Pre-A funding round

China’s leading cultivated meat company Avant nets US$3.1 million in funding to commercialize cultivated fish

New York Microalgae Company Closes Capital Raise via Harvest Returns Platform

Eat Beyond Global Holdings to Commence Trading on the CSE Under the Symbol 'EATS'

New VTT-based startup company eniferBio producing protein from biorefinery by-products received more than one million euros in funding

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

Investors in Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods Launch New Fund Targeting the Fast-Growing Global Alternative Protein Sector

Radicle Growth and Syngenta Launch $1.25m Fund to Support the Future of Protein

New first-of-its-kind zero-waste biorefinery project to produce proteins for food from feedstocks

Nature’s Fynd Begins Production, Raises $80 Million Series B to Commercialize a New-to-the-World Protein

Innovative North East tech disruptor secures funding to scale globally

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