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Joywell Foods raises $25M to bring sweet proteins to market

Joywell uses a proprietary microbial fermentation process to produce sweet proteins that are nearly identical to those found in exotic fruits and berries.

Sugar raises $2.5M in seed funding to connect apartment residents

Sugar, a startup that aims to turn apartment buildings into “interactive communities,” has closed on $2.5 million in seed funding.  A slew of investors participated in the financing, including Me

Has a startup finally found one of food science’s holy grails with its healthy sugar substitute?

A little less than three years ago at the Computer Science Museum in Mountain View, California, the founders of a young company hailing from Cambridge, England addressed a crowd of celebrities, invest

Synthetic biology startup Lygos raises $13 million from OS Fund and IA Ventures to make cleaner chemicals

Lygos uses microbugs to convert low-cost sugar into specialty chemicals used in manufacturing, and is now releasing a technique to make malic acid, an ingredient needed in the mass production of el

3D Systems Launches The ChefJet, A Sugar Printer For Cooks

Sugar printing has always been difficult. Cooks were able to create sugar-based sculptures by hacking standard plastic printers but, in the end, the results have been, shall we say, less than sweet. T

Sweet Deal: 3D Systems Buys LA-Based Sugar Lab

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/05/29/husband-and-wife-architects-create-the-sugar-lab-a-foundry-for-3d-printed-sweets/">Sugar Lab</a> launched last May with some fanfare. The company was founded

Sugar Inc. Acquires Social Network And Community For Mothers Circle Of Moms

<a href="http://www.sugarinc.com/">Sugar Inc.</a>, a media company that caters exclusively to women, is <a href="http://www.sugarinc.com/SUGAR-ACQUIRE-CIRCLE-MOMS-21855622">acquiring</a> San Francisco

Sugar Inc Raises Another $15 Million To Grow Its Women-Focused Media Empire

<a href="http://www.sugarinc.com"><img class="shot2" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/sugarlogo.png" alt="" /></a><a href="http://www.sugarinc.com/">Sugar Inc</a>, a media company

PopSugar Launches Retail Therapy, A FarmVille For Shopaholics [Video]

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/fashion.jpg" /><a href="http://www.popsugar.com/">Sugar Inc.</a>, the media company behind the popular collection of sugar-centric blogs (PopS

Video Demo: Sugar on a Stick turns your old computer into an OLPC

<img src="http://crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/gallery_image_02.jpg" alt="sugar" />Got an old sack o' crap laptop or desktop gathering dust? Sugar Labs has just made its OLPC-friendly "Sug

3D candy fabricator promises a sweet time

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/3569296311_812cc1e1de.jpg"> The <a href="http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/cf6k">CandyFab 6000</a> is an updated version of th

Sugar Inc Skips Ad Network, Launches Blog Platform Instead

<a href="http://www.sugarinc.com"><img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/sugarinc.jpg" class="shot2" /></a> <a href="http://www.sugarinc.com">Sugar Inc</a>, owner of the popular

Intel borrows a cup of Sugar from OLPC

It’s no secret that Intel and the OLPC project parted ways a while back, and now I think we can cross the OS off the list of things Intel didn’t like about the project. Sugar Labs, which s

Fabricate Tasty Objects Out Of Sugar

Evil Mad Scientist may have a scary name, but his creations are simply delicious. This genius whipped up a 3-D fabricator that can create objects out of granulated sugar. These tasty treats can then b