EXCLUSIVE: Provectus nets $3.25m seed funding to ‘program’ algae
The Australian startup uses lighting, robotics, and AI to ‘program’ algae strains so they can more efficiently produce specialty ingredients for the food and ag sectors.
The Australian startup uses lighting, robotics, and AI to ‘program’ algae strains so they can more efficiently produce specialty ingredients for the food and ag sectors.
Dutch startup Mosa Meat is expecting a second close of its Series B round in “the next few months” following a $55 million first tranche.
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The French startup – which farms mealworms to produce ingredients for fish feed, pet food, and crop fertilizers – claims it’s the biggest insect protein round ever.
Microbes such as mycoprotein and microalgae can be used to produce biomass, improve plant-based products, and create paradigm-changing functional ingredients.
Shiok Meats is the first ‘lab-grown seafood’ venture in the aquaculture-focused VC’s portfolio, Aqua-Spark co-founder Amy Novogratz told AFN.
Oakland-based TerViva and Farmer Mac want to help farmers with the cost of cultivating pongamia, which takes several years to become productive.
Phytolon has been working on a proprietary, fermentation-based technology to produce its own spectra of plant-based food colors.
The round was led by The Rise Fund – a unit of US private equity giant TPG Capital – and Swire Pacific, an arm of Hong Kong trading house Swire.
AFN speaks to the innovative foodtech startups taking part in the sustainability-focused program run by AgFunder-backed impact fund and accelerator GROW.
Colorado-based Bond Pet Foods just secured bridge financing to take its total funding to date to $2 million.
Prime Impact Fund is entering the world of agtech with the goal of wringing out emissions that are unlikely to be addressed by today’s class of startups.
Danone’s global farming expertise manager tells AFN how the company is embracing technological innovation in its search for sustainability.
Investment into Innovative Food – which includes cultured meat, plant-based and fermented proteins, and novel ingredients – has been bolstered by Covid-19.
India will be home to more than 1.4 billion people by 2030. Unlike consumers in Europe and the US, they’ll be looking to eat more meat – not less.
The foodtech startup is using AI to build a “digital chef” that creates sustainable, personalized recipes for home cooks.
Singapore’s VisVires New Protein and Switzerland’s Redalpine co-led the Series A funding, which will assist Mushlabs with scaling up its mycelium growing operations.
Pat Brown’s strategy to replace animal protein by focusing on taste has forced the meat industry to be reactive; now it needs to get proactive.
It may be smaller than previous rounds; but with another big-name backer on board and demand rising, the plant-based protein maker still has plenty to be happy about.
The Korean chemical giant’s Singapore agribiz hub will “pioneer solutions for the world food supply chain through innovation, not just plain food trading,” its CEO tells AFN.
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