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

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

January 31, 2025
Elaine Watson

“This is a particularly devastating ending as our progress last year was off the charts,” says cofounder Dr. Leila Strickland, who hopes BIOMILQ’s IP will be made available in a public sale in the Chapter 7 process.

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

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

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

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

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

FOOD TECH

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’

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?

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

STARTUP FUNDING

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

Elaine Watson, AgFunderNews, and Dr. Eran Noah, Noah IP

🎥How to protect your IP on a budget: A primer for foodtech startups

The Week in AgriFoodTech: India’s Botanic Healthcare bags $29m, Fermata secures $10m, Plenty facing value cut

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

AGTECH

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?

FieldData bets on AI-powered data entry to simplify ranch management and increase holistic practices

InnerPlant takes ‘meaningful step’ in regulatory journey for genetically engineered ‘sensor plants’

@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

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

Left: Louisa Burwood -Taylor, top right: Samuele Gabbio, center right: Jennifer Marston, bottom right: Elaine Watson

The AgFunderNews team’s favorite stories of 2024

NOVEL FARMING SYSTEMS

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

2024 was ‘a year of reckoning for agtech’

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

Asia dominates global aquaculture production but Europe still holds most of the VC investment: report

REGENERATIVE AG

‘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

ReGen Brands unveils a three-fold approach to boosting demand for regenerative agriculture through CPGs

WOMEN

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

Chui-Lian Lee, cofounder and CEO, Werewool Image credit Werewool

Meet the founder: Werewool’s Chui-Lian Lee harnesses microbes to create colorful fabrics… without dyes

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

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

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

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Investor Insight

mushroom mycelium from Lever VC portco Mush Foods

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

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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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