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SVCMS, 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.
Global 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.
Starting from this month, partnerships between Haofood, a startup creating peanut protein-based alternative chicken, and five restaurants in Shanghai offering authentic dishes from cultures around the globe unites tradition and modern technology to bringcustomers a unique culinary experience.
Silicon Valley-based cellular agriculture company Mission Barns today announced a $24M Series A to scale up its cultivated fat technology and build a pilot manufacturing plant in the Bay Area.
Eat Beyond Global Holdings is announcing that its portfolio company SingCell has entered into a technology development agreement with the National University of Singapore to evaluate and license its plant-based edible microcarriers technology.
Leading plant-based meat companies in Australia including Sanitarium, Proform Foods, v2food, Rogue Foods and Nestlé Australia, along with the U.S.’s Impossible Foods, have launched the Alternative Proteins Council (APC), a new representative group for Australia’s alternative proteins sector.
Improved Nature, a plant-based protein company, proudly announces that its Nature’s PRIME™ products have earned the Non-GMO Project Verified mark. The Non-GMO Project Product Verification Program is North America’s most rigorous third-party verification for non-GMO food and products.
Future 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.
Berlin-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.
Meatable, 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.
Food tech company SuperMeat has launched the world’s first production-to-fork cultured meat manufacturing facility. The facility was introduced at a live event at the Future Food-Tech conference, where the cultured meat manufacturing process was demonstrated from chicken cell to chicken burger for the first time. During the event, the company announced that they have cut down their production cost by 50%, bringing a 100% cultured meat burger down to $30.
The New, one of Latin America’s fastest-growing plant-based meat brands, announced today it has secured funding from Lever VC, a leading global investor in the alternative protein space, and Paulo Veras, Founder and CEO of 99, Brazil’s first tech unicorn. Funding will be used to complete expansion of a 1,000 square meter production facility amid heavy demand for the company’s products at national and regional retailers.
Eat Beyond Global Holdings, an investment issuer focused on the global plant-based and alternative food sector, is announcing that its portfolio company Nabati Foods has closed an oversubscribed $7.7 million private placement, and has restructured with plans to go public.
Despite COVID restrictions and lockdowns, consumer demand for plant-based meat products in Australia – such as meat-free burgers, sausages and ready meals – grew exponentially last year, according to a new report out today with modelling by Deloitte Access Economics.
Ambitious 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.
Avant, the first cultivated meat company in China and the first cultivated fish company in Asia, announces today a strategic partnership with QuaCell, an emerging leader in the biopharmaceutical industry in China.
Zyrcular 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.
At 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.
Avant announces today the launch of Zellulin®, an ethically and sustainably sourced bioactive ingredient produced in a fully traceable and controlled environment, using Avant's cell culture biotechnology.
Investment led by Lever VC to allow Blackbird Foods to expand into retail chains and scale operations.Blackbird Foods builds on early successes of supplying popular NYC restaurants with its plant-based protein to launch on grocery shelves nationwide.Demand has already quadrupled within Blackbird’s home region of the northeast since the start of 2020.
UK-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.
Shanghai-based HERO Protein, the first Chinese company to use high-moisture extrusion technology, drawsbacking from senior food industry execs and leading corporates
Plant-based dairy startup Take Two Foods, which launched the world’s first barleymilk in March of 2020, is excited to announce expansion into several new grocery markets this year, including Sprouts Farmers Market, Imperfect Foods, New Seasons Market, and New Leaf Community Markets. The company has also brought on seven new key members to its rapidly growing team in the last six months.
CPI, 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.