CEO Sriram on why she made the leap from full-time scientist to founder – and how she reconciles vegetarianism with being a cultured meat eater.
“We have absolutely no aversion to doing that, we just haven’t had the bandwidth,” he said.
Competitors Missfresh and Dingdong filed for New York IPOs earlier this month.
In this roundtable article, AFN hears from team members at three GROW startups which are playing their part in the plant-based protein revolution.
Morsels of the past week’s other agrifoodtech news from around the web, for your delectation.
There’s nothing new about agrifood corporates investing directly in strategic technologies – but it is now a mainstream approach.
The Israeli startup combines AI-driven technology with exotic and ancient crop types to breed seeds with superior nutritional qualities.
The tech-enabled ‘grab n’ go’ restaurant was valued at $1.5 billion at the time of its last publicly announced funding round in September 2019.
NTU students will learn the science behind cell-cultured, plant-based, and fermented proteins, as well as the market opportunities and regulatory issues they present.
It’s building a “first of its kind” protein factory in the Netherlands with the aim of producing 1 million tonnes of mycoprotein annually by 2032.
The Tel Aviv-based startup plans to use the Series E funds to pursue M&A deals that will allow it to rapidly scale.
The hip hop mogul has invested in a number of agrifoodtech ventures, including Impossible Foods and Oatly.
The Ginkgo Bioworks spinout will use the proceeds from the BlackRock and Ontario Teachers’-led Series B round for R&D, commercialization, and hiring.
The startup said the two products will be sold by restaurant partners at the same, or lower, price points as similar animal-derived menu items.
Quantum hardware’s depth of analysis would likely advance our understanding of the genetic code of plants – and humans – far beyond what we know today.
Fund VII takes Flagship’s total assets under management to $14.1 billion.
Glebe Farm owner Phillip Rayner said that “although Oatly are much bigger than us, we do not believe we have done anything wrong.”
Both companies source fresh produce from farmers and agribusinesses and deliver it to consumers, who can order groceries through a mobile app.
Grow-NY is accepting applications for Round III of its competition for agrifood startups until July 15.
The world’s biggest meat packer said that “preliminary investigation results confirm that no company, customer, or employee data was compromised.”
