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Modern Synthesis cofounders Ben Reeve and Jen Keane. Image credit: Modern Synthesis

Bags… from bacteria? Modern Synthesis raises $5.5m to expand biomaterials platform

February 5, 2025
Elaine Watson

“The first thing that struck us was how this material rivals traditional leathers in look and feel but can also offer something entirely new that excites designers,” says investor Extantia Capital.

A Kenyan scientist/entrepreneur shares her journey through Deep Science Ventures’ alt-PhD program

How will Trump's tariffs impact the food supply chain?

Tariff whiplash: Uncertainty is driving inefficiencies in CPG supply chains, says consultant

Small-scale bioreactors deploying a patented process from Brevel

Brevel teams up with Israel’s leading beverage co to develop microalgae-fueled products

With a fresh $15m, Bonsai Robotics stresses the need for ‘an AI first approach’ to on-farm autonomy

Canola protein. Image credit: Burcon Nutrascience

Burcon investor leads facility acquisition to scale up plant protein production in Illinois

Enduro Genetics founder and CSO Dr. Peter Rugbjerg (left) and CEO Christian Munch (right). Image credit: Enduro Genetics

Enduro Genetics raises $12m Series A to turbocharge biomanufacturing

Dr. Leila Strickland, cofounder, BIOMILQ. Image credit: BIOMILQ

Exclusive: BIOMILQ files for bankruptcy amid IP dispute that made it ‘uninvestable and unacquirable’

Perfect Day uses microbes—instead of cows—to make the dairy protein beta lactoglobulin

Exclusive: Perfect Day buries legal hatchet with co-manufacturer; searches for new CEO

FOOD TECH

mushroom mycelium from Lever VC portco Mush Foods

Lever VC announces $50m first close of agrifoodtech Fund II

Kokomodo CEO Tal Govrin (left) and CTO Dr. Dario Breitel (right).

The Week in AgriFoodTech: Liberation Labs raises $50.5m, OCELL nabs $10m, Pluri to make lab-grown cocoa acquisition

Vanilla Vida harvest 2025

Exclusive: Vanilla Vida celebrates “world’s first’ large-scale indoor vanilla harvest

Atomo cofounder and CEO Andy Kleitsch Image credit Atomo

Atomo beanless coffee makes UK debut, but firm will ‘not be profitable on the back of small coffee shops’

STARTUP FUNDING

CH4 Global CEO Dr. Steve Meller. Image credit: CH4 Global

CH4 Global begins production at first commercial-scale Asparagopsis growing facility

The Ÿnsect mealworm farm in Amiens, France. Image credit: Ÿnsect

Insect ag pioneer Ÿnsect ‘exploring all possible options, including a 3rd-party takeover,’ Agronutris files safeguard plan with court

Cocoa fruit Image credit: iStock/every-day-better-to-do-everything-you-love

Is plant cell culture a scalable way to futureproof cocoa and coffee?

Dr Shannon Nangle, cofounder and CEO at gas fermentation startup Circe Bioscience. Image credit: Circe Bioscience

Aerobic gas fermentation: the final frontier in novel fats?

AGTECH

Benefits of nature-based livestock solutions ‘will be several times higher’ than those from tech: report

Breaking: Microsoft inks deal with Chestnut Carbon, kicks off 100-year-long carbon removal project

Exclusive: The Modern Acre podcast team launches discovery platform for biologicals: ‘It’s like Yelp for agriculture’

Johan Jorgensen Sweden Foodtech

Guest article: AI… the silent partner to the regenerative agriculture revolution?

@AGFUNDER

CH4 Global CEO Dr. Steve Meller. Image credit: CH4 Global

CH4 Global begins production at first commercial-scale Asparagopsis growing facility

Atomo cofounder and CEO Andy Kleitsch Image credit Atomo

Atomo beanless coffee makes UK debut, but firm will ‘not be profitable on the back of small coffee shops’

Here are the top 15 foodtech deals of 2024

What were the top 15 agtech deals of 2024?

ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION

Guest article: Agtech poised for a rebound in 2025?

Rajat Bhageria, founder and CEO, Chef Robotics

Chef Robotics CEO: ‘A lot of robotics companies have made grandiose promises, but they haven’t really shipped any robots. We’re much more practical’

Brief: NVIDIA’s venture arm invests in autonomous weeding startup Carbon Robotics

ALT MEAT/PROTEIN

Project Eaden cofounders Dr David Schmelzeisen (left) and Jan Wilmking (right). Image credit: Project Eaden

Project Eaden raises $15.6m Series A to launch ‘ultra-realistic’ plant-based meat using fiber spinning tech

Dr. Mohammad Ghosheh (left) and Prof. Yaakov Nahmias (right) work on injection molding for alt meat. Image credit: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Could injection molding with metamaterials solve the scalability challenge for whole cuts of alt meat?

Cultivated meat

Cultivated Meat at a crossroads: Highlights from the Tufts cell ag innovation day

NOVEL FARMING SYSTEMS

Renewable energy now a ‘top priority’ for indoor agriculture: report

Inside the Dream Harvest vertical farm in Houston, Texas. Image credit: Dream Harvest

Brief: Vertical farmer Dream Harvest auctions off $8m of un-used kit purchased new in 2022

2024 was ‘a year of reckoning for agtech’

Gooddrop’s ‘grow-to-wear’ apparel business looks to mass produce cotton using vertical farms

REGENERATIVE AG

The Week in AgriFoodTech: ‘Carbon ratings’ agency BeZero Carbon raises $32m, alt-cheese maker Willicroft shuts down

‘A pivotal moment’ for regenerative agriculture as Agreena secures Verra registration for soil carbon project

Breaking: Varaha signs ‘landmark’ deal with Google to make smallholders part of the carbon removal solution

WOMEN

Vanilla Vida harvest 2025

Exclusive: Vanilla Vida celebrates “world’s first’ large-scale indoor vanilla harvest

Dr Shannon Nangle, cofounder and CEO at gas fermentation startup Circe Bioscience. Image credit: Circe Bioscience

Aerobic gas fermentation: the final frontier in novel fats?

Louise Parlons Bentata, cofounder and CEO, Bluemethane

Bluemethane unveils novel tech to capture methane from water

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The Ÿnsect mealworm farm in Amiens, France. Image credit: Ÿnsect

Insect ag pioneer Ÿnsect ‘exploring all possible options, including a 3rd-party takeover,’ Agronutris files safeguard plan with court

Frankly Speaking

Dr. Leila Strickland, cofounder, BIOMILQ. Image credit: BIOMILQ

Exclusive: BIOMILQ files for bankruptcy amid IP dispute that made it ‘uninvestable and unacquirable’

Data Snapshot

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From novelty to necessity? The evolution of insect farming

Investor Insight

mushroom mycelium from Lever VC portco Mush Foods

Lever VC announces $50m first close of agrifoodtech Fund II

Meet the Founder

Dr Shannon Nangle, cofounder and CEO at gas fermentation startup Circe Bioscience. Image credit: Circe Bioscience

Aerobic gas fermentation: the final frontier in novel fats?

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Can Colombia fulfill the promise of becoming an agrifoodtech powerhouse?

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