Precision fermentation might make commercial sense for high-value ingredients such as enzymes or lactoferrin. But what about low-value, high-volume ingredients such as casein proteins?
Motif FoodWorks CEO Dr. Mike Leonard has left the Boston-based foodtech firm, AgFunderNews has learned. His departure comes as the firm engages in a new round of layoffs.
36 alt seafood startups in 14 countries—spanning cultivated, plant-based, and fermentation-based segments—have joined forces to create a new trade association: Future Ocean Foods.
“We feel good about the relationship with Burger King,” says Impossible Foods CEO Peter McGuinness. “We feel good about our sales, the Impossible Whopper is important to us and it’s important to them, and we are working with them exploring other innovations.”
Trace Genomics partners with EarthOptics, Dreamfarm secures $5 million for alt-mozzarella.
“The past 10 years were the equivalent of the late 1990s for the internet. Now is the equivalent of the dot com crash,” says Eric Archambeau, partner at Astanor.
While the beleaguered plant-based meat company achieved positive free cash flow in the third quarter, it does not expect to sustain it in the fourth quarter.
However, the number of High Risk companies decreased for the first time ever, according to the Coller FAIRR Protein Producer Index.
Instead of using black soldier flies for feed and fertilizer, Singapore-based Insectta hopes to expand their applications to everything from personal wellness and pharmaceuticals to organic electronics.
With Beyond Meat mulling a restructure of its operations in China due to lackluster demand, we caught up with investor Tao Zhang to get his take on the alt protein market opportunity in China.
Economies of scale will drive down the cost of precision fermentation. But advances in titer, productivity, and yield are equally important, says Synonym.
At its recent Game Changers LatAm Series 2023, GLOCAL unveiled the 10 companies that won awards for their agrifoodtech innovations.
Aquaculture company Vertical Oceans welcomes new CFO, Cibus hires an expert in “natural capital.”
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The Deep Science Ventures PhD program aims to redefine what a scientist is while balancing academic rigor with commercial opportunity.
Bioomix announced funding for its microbial ag solutions and Doritos is on a mission to silence its chips.
The loan will help In Ovo expand its technology that determines the sex of hatching eggs, eliminating the need to cull day-old male chicks.
The FoodShot Global team looks back on half a decade of agrifoodtech investment and hints at what’s in store for the next five years.
Areas of interest include sustainable packaging, fermentation, agriculture biologicals, crop disease resistance, soil health and regenerative agriculture.
Triplebar’s system enables it to screen millions of mutations and optimize a yeast strain, for example, over many generations at record speed, effectively “running evolution at hyper-speed.”
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