Brief: Meatless Farm exec: ‘The business has unfortunately made all the teams redundant’
Loss-making UK-based plant-based meat startup Meatless Farm has laid off most of its staff after failing to secure additional funds to help it stay afloat.
Loss-making UK-based plant-based meat startup Meatless Farm has laid off most of its staff after failing to secure additional funds to help it stay afloat.
Launched in September 2021 with $30 million in funding, microbiome startup Verb Biotics engineers ‘precision biotics’ for foods and supplements with ‘measurable effects that consumers can feel.’
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Tawi Fresh launched this year to connect smallholder farmers in Kenya more directly to markets, financing and fairer pricing.
UK-based Higher Steaks has rebranded as Uncommon and raised $30m in a series A round to scale production of cultivated pork using technology it claims gives it a competitive edge by speeding up the cell differentiation process.
The field results and registration mark the first geographical expansion for Israel’s Grace Breeding and its biofertilizer product.
Agribusiness Marketplaces and Fintech was the most-funded upstream category for India agrifoodtech in 2022.
Microbes have been the workhorses of recombinant protein production for years. But could the humble fruit fly give them a run for their money? asks Canadian startup Future Fields.
Nestlé is partnering with VC firm the Yield Lab Latam to support agtech startups in Latam and bolster its own sustainability goals.
MyForest Foods—a New York-based startup making whole cuts of meat from mushroom mycelium—has raised $15 million in Series A-2 funding and hired Greg Shewchuk as its new CEO.
The partnership will deploy the BioLumic UV light seed treatment to Gro Alliance seed production facilities in North America, starting in Illinois.
Chinova Bioworks, a Canadian startup producing natural preservatives and fining agents from upcycled mushroom stalks, is expanding its capacity four-fold this year to fuel international expansion and meet demand in fast-growing markets such as non-alcoholic beer.
Latam startups fight food insecurity and inequality with agrifoodtech tools like farmer financing logistics and healthier ingredients.
VCs need to put more money into women entrepreneurs as a path to profit and impact, and to generate better returns.
Impossible Foods’ lawyers did not violate rules of professional conduct by hiring private investigators to pose as potential customers in order to obtain product information and samples from Motif FoodWorks as the companies clashed over IP, a court has ruled.
Fungi-fueled alt meat startup Meati Foods has laid off 17 of its 300 employees this week, three months after opening a new production facility in Thornton, Colorado, but says the move does not reflect weak demand for its products.
Used in everything from lipsticks to alt meat, tropical oils come with environmental costs. But can microbes give them a run for their money?
Five or six years ago the press coverage around cultivated meat was almost universally positive. Today, we’re seeing headlines about cancerous cells, ‘vaporware,’ and business failures. So where does the industry go from here?
Some commentators argue that cultivated meat is a food tech fantasy. So are they right? It all depends on your approach, says Joshua March, cofounder and CEO at San Leandro-based startup SciFi Foods.
Between 2005-2012, venture capitalists poured millions into startups attempting to make fuel from microalgae, getting their fingers badly burned in the process. But could algae be gearing up for a second bloom?
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