meat

Cultured meat startup Prolific Machines unveils its ‘Henry Ford approach’ to cell growth

Its technology is a way to grow and control cells without the need for any of those expensive recombinant proteins for cell production.

Bond Pet Foods enters meat proteins phase with $17.5M Series A

The company, using precision fermentation to create “nature-identical” chicken, beef, fish and other meat proteins, intends to be commercially ready in two years.

Lumachain, using computer vision to transform meat production, bites into new capital

Lumachain's goal is to solve some of the global meat industry's key challenges, including employee shortages and supply chain disruptions.

Eat Just bags $25M, gets Alibaba’s help to sell alternative protein in China

China is a notoriously difficult market for international startups to crack, but one company seems to have found the recipe for wooing the country’s picky consumers. Three years after Eat Just l

Your future shrimp meal could come from Atarraya’s farming technology

The company's three-pronged technology includes creating ideal environment for the shrimp, remote operations management and AI-powered automation to monitor and feed them.

Andreessen Horowitz backs SCiFi Foods as it develops cell-cultivated, plant-based burger

The company is using both plant-based and real cultivated beef cells in its approach to grow meat from animal cells at large-scale and more affordably.

Kim Kardashian lends her taste buds to Beyond Meat as first chief taste consultant

She will also be featured in a new campaign touting her recipes for using Beyond Meat and other creative content.

Impossible Foods’ Pat Brown will discuss plant-based meats at TC Sessions: Climate 2022

You can’t tackle climate change without taking a hard look at the environmental impact of the global meat and dairy industries. Combined, they emit 7.1 gigatons of greenhouse gasses every year and a

Unicorn Bio is building the hardware to scale cultivated meat from lab to table

Cultivated meat, grown in a bioreactor rather than out on the range, might be one of the big food trends of the decade. But it’s relying on tech built around multiplying yeast and bacteria cells

UPSIDE Foods bites into $400M round to serve cultivated meat later this year

Pending regulatory review, the company’s chicken product will be available to consumers in the U.S. later this year.

Planetary wants to help food startups brew up more fake meat

Planetary aims to bring all of the alternative protein production planets into orbit with its scaling technology.

Nowadays puts its spin on plant-based nuggets

Its first product is a crispy, plant-based riff on chicken nuggets that is made with just seven ingredients.

99 Counties taps regenerative agriculture trend for meat marketplace

The company is creating a marketplace connecting local, regenerative farms in the 99 counties of Iowa to consumers purchasing boxes of beef, pork and poultry.

Yali Bio wants to fatten up plant-based foods

Yali Bio is using precision fermentation to build up a microbial strain library of fats that plant-based companies can use instead of oils as the basis for their alternative meat products.

Will your nose know lamb? Black Sheep Foods is betting it will

While plant-based versions of chicken and beef have become popular in recent years, Black Sheep Foods believes that meats, like lamb and other game, were left behind by the trend.

TechCrunch+ roundup: Cell-cultured meat, alternative financing, avoiding tech debt

You don't need to be a scientist to understand the impacts of factory farming: if you've driven past the cattle feedlot in Coalinga, CA, the smell travels for miles.

Is cell-cultured meat ready for prime time?

Cell-cultured meat is a hot topic, yet the process for producing meat in this manner remains slow and costly.

Tiamat Sciences cooking up plant-based proteins for cheaper production of cellular meat

Adil estimates that today’s growth factor costs $2 million per gram to make, but she believes that with efforts from Tiamat Sciences and others, that cost could come down 10 times.

New Age Meats bites into $25M for cultured meat product line development

The company will begin production of its first product offering, a variety of pork sausages, next year.

How one founder aims to bring researchers and food producers together around cultured meat

When Clarisse Beurrier was getting her education in chemical engineering and biotechnology, she already knew she wanted to make a difference; hence her participation in Effective Altruism Cambridge, a
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