Cultivated Biosciences raises $5m seed round to expand ‘yeast cream’ platform for alt dairy
The Zurich-based startup’s ‘yeast cream’ can dramatically improve the mouthfeel and performance of alt dairy products, claims CCO Lucie Rein.
The Zurich-based startup’s ‘yeast cream’ can dramatically improve the mouthfeel and performance of alt dairy products, claims CCO Lucie Rein.
Ai Palette has developed an end-to-end platform enabling clients to identify trends, generate new product concepts and screen them at the click of a button, aided by a new conversational chatbot called FoodGPT.
The zero-cholesterol, low-saturated fat eggs are made from a base of soy and chickpea protein plus sunflower oil, with ‘runny’ yolks sealed from the whites by an alginate film.
According to one industry source, Gro received “some money with a lot of conditions.”
“In the first six years, we had more failures than successes,” says insect ag pioneer Kees Aarts.
Extensive field trials in Spain with leading commercial tomato varieties grown in open fields have delivered 10-17% increases in yield, claims SaliCrop.
Spanish plant-based meat startup Heura posted a 22% increase in sales to €38.3m ($41.5m) in 2023 and says it’s on course to turn a profit next year.
Beyond Meat Jerky, the first product to emerge from the firm’s JV with PepsiCo, is being discontinued less than two years after launch.
According to the new definition, precision fermentation combines the process of traditional fermentation with the latest advances in biotechnology.
CTO James Cariello has been named as the new CEO at the firm, which recently laid off 10% of its staff and has been trying to raise fresh capital through a convertible bond.
“Our first farm was profitable within a few months of opening, so we realized we might be onto something big,” says Gotham Greens founder and CEO.
The Breyers launch comes hot on the heels of Nestlé’s ‘Better Whey’ product from Orgain, which features whey protein made by microbes in fermentation tanks instead of cows.
“This strategy aligns with our commitment to scaling up responsibly,” says CEO Didier Toubia.
Under new leadership, Meati Foods will “continue the work to right size the company’s workforce and accelerate the path to profitability” says the firm.
Despite its ubiquity, attractive amino acid profile and functional bona fides, RuBisCO has not become the plant protein of choice for the food industry. Israeli startup Day 8 hopes to change that…
Vivici has been able to move unusually rapidly by leveraging its founders’ expertise in dairy proteins and industrial-scale biomanufacturing, says CEO Stephan van Sint Fiet.
Bangalore-based FaunaTech is a novel smartphone-based diagnostics platform for rapid testing of milk and bovine health at the farmgate.
Less than five months after announcing its first commercial-scale cultivated meat plant in Glenview, Illinois, UPSIDE Foods has hit pause…
“The CEO got all [of the] company [together] in a less than five-minute call and the affected ones were disconnected less than an hour and a half afterwards.”
“My view of the market is that we had a bit of a hype cycle, but the underlying trends [driving alt protein] are there,” says ENOUGH CEO Jim Laird.
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