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Amyris CEO on the post-bankruptcy re-boot: ‘We’re a drastically different company’

Two years after emerging from bankruptcy, Amyris is not yet profitable, but has slashed its burn rate, says CEO Kathy Fortmann.

Biomanufacturing & biologicals

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Kathy Fortmann, CEO, Amyris Image credit OBrien Hatch Photography

Exclusive: Waste methane to fertilizer startup Windfall Bio auctions off assets

Silicon Valley Disposition lists a Windfall Bio online auction at the company’s San Mateo address, featuring “extremely high-end R&D instruments, bioreactor systems, lab equipment, and much more.”

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Biomanufacturing & biologicals

Amyris CEO on the post-bankruptcy re-boot: ‘We’re a drastically different company’

Exclusive: Waste methane to fertilizer startup Windfall Bio auctions off assets

Pacifico Biolabs nets $8m, targets alt-meat cost parity with brewery retrofit model

Can plant cell culture escape the biopharma cost trap? Rheaplant nets new funds

Ruby Bio aims to launch “world first” fermentation-derived clean label emulsifiers in 2027

How to sell the next wave of gene-edited crops? Let the little guys do it

StrainX Bioworks nets $13m to scale biomanufacturing platform: ‘India is going to be the fermentation capital of the world’

Guest article: Building the next generation of the global meat trade as a sovereign mandate

URUS acquires AgriWebb to make livestock tech ‘resemble other critical infrastructure systems’

AI food leaders see sweeping disruptions—at different speeds

AgriFood Signals: More Microsoft carbon deals, a $200m greenhouse in Mexico, rubber from dandelions

Saku Biosciences bets on tiny “PicoShells” to solve a big biomanufacturing problem

Regenerative is a bridge to organic production, not a substitute for it, says Friends of the Earth

Exclusive: Triple Bio emerges from stealth with lipid tech designed to boost milk yields and curb methane

Could ‘chickpea-sized’ biosensors make biomanufacturing more cost competitive?

The cracks in chemical farming are getting hard to ignore. These startups are providing alternatives

GrainFlow targets grain elevator gridlock with AI scheduling system

Renaissance Bioscience unveils yeast-derived VLP platform for next-gen RNAi biopesticides

On the heels of fresh funding, Oishii has ‘crossed the chasm’ of unit economics in vertical farming

Farming knowledge is dying but AI can save it

Castoro Cellars deploys Saga Robotics’ UV-C bots across 600 organic acres

AgriFood Signals: S2G Investments bags $1bn, Oishii makes first close of Series C, Corteva picks crop protection HQ

Insect ag recalibrates after a brutal shakeout: Where are the key players now?

Heura Foods hits positive EBITDA in Q1: ‘a turning point for the European plant-based sector’

US Senate fertilizer hearing: Farmers ‘can’t take much more’ as prices surge

Resurrect Bio expands Series A to $10.3m to scale tech helping plants to defend themselves

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