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Cultivated meat panel SynBioBeta 2023

Cultivated meat: Foodtech fantasy or the future of meat? ‘None of this stuff makes any commercial sense until everyone’s eating it’

June 1, 2023
Elaine Watson

Five or six years ago the press coverage around cultivated meat was almost universally positive. Today, we’re seeing headlines about cancerous cells, ‘vaporware,’ and business failures. So where does the industry go from here?

Neat Burger.

The Week in AgriFoodTech: Neat Burger raises $18m, Debut bags $34m to expand cell-free biomanufacturing platform

latin american farmer

What’s holding back agtech adoption in Latam? BASF’s director of digital ag weighs in

Josh March, cofounder and CEO, SCi-Fi Foods

🎥SCiFi Foods on cultivated meat unit economics: ‘We can make a blended product commercially viable without needing crazy-scale bioreactors’

Algae-panel-synbiobeta

Algae’s second bloom? ‘Resiliency and productivity are key,’ say second generation startups

French flag, Paris, France.

Data snapshot: France bucks global trend as agrifoodtech investment surges 39% in 2022

Carbon Robotics laser weeder

Rise of the machines: What will drive adoption of robotics and automation in specialty crops?

Meatable cofounder Krijn de Nood

🎥 Meatable CEO: ‘We believe we have the fastest process in the field to make cultivated meat’

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FOOD TECH

The Week in AgriFoodTech: Pluton Biosciences bags $16.5m, Babylon Micro-Farms secures funds, José Andrés launches climate institute

Plant based burger from Motif FoodWorks

Motif FoodWorks accuses Impossible Foods of hiring private investigators to ‘circumvent the discovery process’ in ongoing IP litigation

eFishery

Brief: Aquatech startup eFishery raises $108m Series D to reach unicorn status

Sensifi artificial nose

Smells like Salmonella? Sensifi emerges from stealth to disrupt food safety market with artificial nose for contactless bacterial sensing

STARTUP FUNDING

Incredo 'enhanced' sugar can enable sugar reductions of 30-50%

Incredo (formerly DouxMatok) raises $30m series C: ‘We’re the cheapest sugar reduction solution on the market’

Brief: KKR & L Catterton co-lead $135m funding for Restaurant365’s back-office management software

Insectta cofounder Chua Kai-Ning

Meet the founder: Insectta’s Chua Kai-Ning taps black soldier flies for high-value functional ingredients

Data snapshot: VC funding for ag biotech increases thanks to mega-rounds from the US, China & India

AGTECH

Investor network FAIRR calls on fast food restaurants to do more about AMR in their supply chains

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What the growing biologicals market can do for speciality crops around the world

Meet the founder: Four Growers on what it takes to build ag robots that harvest faster than humans

a panel discussion about carbon offsetting

🎥 Carbon offsetting: the good, the bad and the ugly

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India Agrifoodtech report AgFunder May 2023

NEW REPORT: Indian agrifoodtech startups raise $2.4bn in 2022 as investors head upstream

Data snapshot: VCs bet on upcycling, insects and inventory management software to cut food waste in 2022

Funding to Biomaterials startups bucks global decline increasing 14% to $2.2bn as industry looks for non-synthetic alternatives

Food delivery startups

Data snapshot: eGrocery investment rollercoaster leads to 73% funding decline in 2022, still biggest category

ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION

Tevel named winner at World Ag Expo for advancing autonomous harvesting using flying robots

Carbon Robotics bags $30m to fight the war on weeds with autonomous laser bots

Q&A: Fifth Season’s former VP on why it failed and how vertical farming must change

ALT MEAT/PROTEIN

Japanese dairy giant Megmilk forms JV with Agrocorp to build pea protein facility in Malaysia

Brief: Japanese dairy giant Megmilk forms JV with Agrocorp to build pea protein facility in Malaysia

Got Wood Milk ad with Aubrey Plaza

Got Wood Milk? MilkPEP spoof ad sparks debate, but will it revive flagging fluid milk sales?

Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown

Beyond Meat to ‘turn the corner’ in the second half, teases next generation burger with ‘animalic’ notes

NOVEL FARMING SYSTEMS

Sponsored

From down under to outer space: 3 Australian startups leading the next era of novel farming systems

Former Impossible Foods CFO David Lee launches new startup, Inevitable Tech, to be ‘the AI for agtech’

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Global startups: here’s how to connect with potential investors and customers at the 2023 IFT FIRST event

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REGENERATIVE AG

Bringing regenerative agriculture to Africa: Kenyan farmers are enthusiastic but need better packaged info – new report

The KIND Almond Acres regenerative ag Initiative

KIND Snacks: ‘What regenerative means for almonds vs row crops might be very different’

Pivot Bio Proven being used by farmer

Pivot Bio pilot replaces synthetic nitrogen on nearly 1m acres of farmland

WOMEN

Vestaron banks $82m Series C funding for its crop-protecting peptides

How Anuvia aims to spend $66m advancing biofertilizer for large-scale agriculture

Umaro’s $3m AgFunder-led seed round hints at a ocean-based future for alternative protein

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