cellular agriculture
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.
Investors salivate over food tech companies perfecting precision fermentation
The technology is not "new," but what has industry followers so excited is the potential for better-quality, more-cost-effective proteins compared to animal-based counterparts.
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.
Synthesis Capital closed its first fund with $300M, giving boost to food tech’s future
While much of the recent capital has targeted the consumer-facing, or downstream side, the firm believes future investments will go into technologies closer to the farm or lab.
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.
Plantish fishes for restaurant partners to try plant-based salmon filets
Plantish aims to get its salmon product into the first five restaurants by December 2023.
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.
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.
The EVERY Co. grabs $175M as it cracks code on animal-free protein products
The company launched its first animal-free egg protein in November, called EVERY ClearEgg, making its retail debut via a partnership with cold-pressed juice brand Pressed.
Perfeggt brings in first capital to shell out plant-based egg alternative
Worldwide, over 1.3 trillion eggs are produced annually, and Perfeggt co-founders believe this market is largely untapped and has room to grow with plant-based alternatives.
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.
Gourmey is a cell-based poultry startup working on lab-grown foie gras
Meet Gourmey, a new French startup that recently raised a $10 million founding round in equity and debt. The startup is working on meat grown in laboratories from animal cells. In particular, the comp
Will Budweiser brew eggs and will Post cereal make meat?
Corporations are quickly waking up to the market potential of alternative proteins, with the nation’s biggest consumer brands continuing to make investments and create partnerships with startup
LIVEKINDLY screams its way to the top of new plant brands with the close of a $335 million round
LIVEKINDLY Collective, the shouty parent company behind a family of plant-based food brands, has snagged cash from the global impact investing arm of $103 billion investment firm TPG to close its late
Eat Just (the alt-protein company formerly known as Hampton Creek) has raised another $200 million
Eat Just, the purveyor of eggless eggs and mayonnaise and the first government-approved vendor of lab-grown chicken, has raised $200 million in a new round of funding, the company said. The funding wa
Bill Gates wants Western countries to eat ‘synthetic meat’; Meatable has raised $47 million to make it
In a recent interview discussing Bill Gates’ recent book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster“, the Microsoft and Breakthrough Energy founder (and the world’s third wealthiest man)
Startups making meat alternatives are gaining traction worldwide
Startups that produce lab-grown meat and meat substitutes are gaining traction and raising cash in global markets, mirroring a surge of support food tech companies are seeing in the United States. New
Alternative protein companies have raised a whopping $1.5 billion through July of this year
Companies like Perfect Day, Impossible Foods and a host of other startups that are developing replacements for animal-farmed goods used in food, clothes, cosmetics and chemicals have raised a whopping
Future Fields is tackling cultured meat’s biggest problem
One possible solution to cellular agriculture’s biggest problem — how to develop a cheap, humane growth material for cultured meat — may have come from a conversation in line at a Ti