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Meati Foods sinks teeth into $150M to expand its mushroom-root meat operations

After five years of research, Meati Foods is poised to begin shipping its plant-based meat product later this year.

Brown Foods ushers in new age of dairy, raises a ‘latte’ money for cowless cow’s milk

The company's first product, UnReal Milk, is "real" whole milk created using mammalian cell culture technology.

SOSV and JetBlue Technology Ventures talk VC climate tech and ESG at TC Sessions: Climate 2022

Investment in climate tech is heating up almost as fast as climate change itself. In 2021, climate tech startups received $40+ billion across more than 600 deals. That’s more than double the capital

Miruku replacing animals with plants to create dairy proteins

Miruku is breeding and engineering plant crops to turn their cells into dairy proteins using energy from the sun.

Better Dairy slices into new funding for animal-free cheeses

Better Dairy is using precision fermentation to produce cheeses that are molecularly identical to traditional dairy.

SOSV’s burgeoning climate portfolio is worth nearly $6 billion as planetary health bets pay off

The burgeoning climate-focused portfolio from early-stage investor SOSV Investments has managed to raise nearly $2 billion in follow-on financing since the startup companies graduated from the investm

Forsaking funding at a $1 billion valuation, Solugen preps a new green chemical product and a big 2021

Late last year, Solugen, a startup using synthetic biology to take hydrocarbons out of the chemicals industry, decided against pursuing a new round of funding that would have valued the company at ove

Bob Iger goes from managing Mickey to directing a milk replacement startup as new Perfect Day boardmember

Bob Iger, the chairman and former chief executive at Walt Disney, is trading his mouse ears for milk substitutes as the new director of massively funded dairy replacement startup Perfect Day. Milk sub

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