Meet the founder: FaunaTech’s Rajat Pandya on the quantified cow…
Bangalore-based FaunaTech is a novel smartphone-based diagnostics platform for rapid testing of milk and bovine health at the farmgate.
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.
Insect breeding and rearing/processing require very different skillsets, claims FreezeM, which supplies insect farmers with neonates in a state of ‘suspended animation.’
Billed as “the most nutrient-dense protein source on the planet,” Superbrewed Food’s Non GMO bacterial biomass is 85% protein with meaningful levels of vitamin B12.
PURIS CEO Tyler Lorenzen says the DOC ruling sends a “clear message that dumping and unfair trade tactics won’t be tolerated.”
The startup has entered into an assignment for the benefit of the creditors (ABC), an alternative to formal bankruptcy proceedings that transfers a distressed company’s assets from the debtor to a trust.
Founded by ex-Impossible Foods exec Reed McCord, First Bite is a data platform designed for food manufacturers looking to increase sales in the foodservice channel.
Funding for cultivated meat peaked at $989m in 2021, dipped slightly to $807m in 2022, then dropped sharply to just $177m in 2023.
“Your gut barrier is a one or two cell membrane that separates your nutrition from your waste, so when you think about it in those terms, it’s pretty stark why you want it to function optimally,” says Brightseed.
The ‘PROFUSE-B8’ bovine myoblasts—muscle progenitor cells—are spontaneously immortalized without the use of genetic engineering.
Finless Foods is not commenting on rumors that it is reducing headcount to extend runway, raise capital, and rebuild at a later time.
According to its CEO: “We still have quite a bit of runway as we’ve been very lean. Part of that is because we’ve never invested in large-scale production capacity [in-house] and we’ve never entered the B2C world.”
DisSolves has developed clean-label edible films that dissolve rapidly in hot or cold water, milk, and juice, without leaving any residue.
50,000 petunia plants that glow in the dark are being made available direct to consumers in the US via Light Bio’s website at $29/plant.
But does it make sense to grow a commodity ingredient such as coffee in a bioreactor, or does plant cell culture only make sense for ultra-high-value botanicals such as saffron?
Phytolon aims to launch natural colors produced by genetically engineered baker’s yeast in the US this year, pending regulatory approvals.
Cultivated meat startup GOOD Meat has upped the ante in its increasingly ugly legal dispute with bioreactor specialist ABEC over alleged nonpayment of bills by filing a series of counterclaims.
A proposed class action lawsuit accusing Danone of misleading shoppers with a ‘carbon neutral’ claim on Evian bottled water can proceed, says judge.
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