Right now, a handful of microbial workhorses do the bulk of the work in biomanufacturing. But do we need to domesticate a new generation of hosts for the next generation of bioproducts?
The race is on to develop ‘designer’ fats for the next generation of food products. But will fats & oils produced by microbes in fermentation tanks ever be a scalable proposition?
Like many players in the space, The Vegetarian Butcher has been exploring clean label binders that can serve as alternatives to egg white and methylcellulose in meat alternatives.
Agrifoodtech investor PeakBridge has closed its Growth Fund II at $187m in partnership with Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity, bringing its total AUM (assets under management) to more than $250m.
The partnership gives New Culture access to “some of the largest and most sophisticated fermentation facilities on the planet.”
AI-powered startup Helios has launched what it claims is the world’s first global platform to forecast prices and availability of soft commodities from fruits and vegetables to cocoa.
“Meat alternatives don’t taste good enough, and it’s the key reason consumers don’t repeat purchase,” claims cultivated fat co Hoxton Farms.
A metabolite of caffeine, paraxanthine (Px) delivers what most people want from coffee, without the jitters, sleeplessness, and anxiety, claims Rarebird.
Beyond Meat posted a net loss of $54.4m on revenues down 18% to $75.6m in Q1, 2024. However, gross margins moved back into positive territory.
Green Plains will be able to produce dextrose with significantly lower capital and carbon intensity vs the standard wet milling process, claims the ethanol producer.
Fungi-fueled startup Meati Foods has raised $100m+ in a C-1 round led by Grosvenor Food & AgTech and rolled out its mycelium-based steaks and cutlets into 2,000 Kroger stores, taking its store count up to 6,000.
Clean Crop Technologies has launched a commercial cold plasma seed treatment facility, signed $3.4m in purchase orders, and has a pipeline worth $47m in ARR, claims the startup.
The latest in the ugly legal dispute between bioreactor supplier ABEC and foodtech co Eat Just and its GOOD Meat cultivated meat subsidiary…
New consumer research from Mattson into users of GLP-1 drugs indicates they want more protein, smaller portion sizes, and foods that soothe nausea and digestive discomfort.
Even when they are spraying on target, most farmers have no idea how much spray is staying on the plant and actually making a difference, says AgZen.
Maia Farms’ fungi-fueled biomass fermentation platform, which uses mycelium from edible mushroom varieties, can deliver “significantly higher yields” than Fusarium-type products, claims the startup.
Shiru has also developed AI and ML-based models to predict protein expression in microbial systems, helping firms determine the most cost effective way to produce target proteins at scale.
Caladan Bio has developed a lower-cost benchtop bioreactor system designed to enhance data capture and increase experimentation throughput.
The foodtech co—which had been told it was a winner weeks ago to give the team time to plan a trip to Portland for the awards ceremony—was told it had fallen foul of rules it claims had not previously been communicated.
“It’s difficult to find another company in the food space that has developed so fast in only two years,” says Nosh.bio cofounder Tim Fronzek.
