It’s raising the insects on organic byproducts such as food waste, before converting them into proteins and oils for use in animal feed.
About Us Nutrition Technologies is a pioneering Agtech company operating in Johor, Malaysia. We produce sustainable ingredients for the animal feed industry by growing insects
Dolly the Sheep creator Roslin Technologies is backing the Singapore-based startup and taking it to its new genetic research facility in Scotland.
The world of Black Soldier Fly farming is diversifying. Here’s how.
Cultivated meat advances in S. Korea while the US sees more legal battles for plant-based meat labeling.
Producing high-value proteins from genetically engineered black soldier flies is cheaper and more scalable than expressing them in engineered microbes via precision fermentation, claims Chilean startup ByBug.
If you’re farming edible insects for protein, scale is the name of the game, says Singapore-based startup Insectta. But if you’re mining bugs for higher-value functional ingredients, even a tiny startup can potentially compete on the global stage with the right technology.
The FlyFeed founder describes his journey from working at SaaS startups to building his own insect protein company to combat global hunger.
Will this new chicken run spur a similar craze for backyard Black Soldier Flies — a tasty and nutritious snack for these trusty lockdown companions?
NextProtein, a French-Tunisian startup working on new ways to produce insect-based animal feed and fertilizer, has raised €10.2 million ($11.2 million) in Series A funding,
The Nutrition Technologies system leverages black soldier fly larvae to produce proteins for animal feed and fertilizers.
The Bangkok-based startup makes pet food products out of black soldier fly larvae, feeding them “a diet from pre-consumed food waste” and other “food surpluses.”
A meaty industry brief this week includes a lawsuit against larger food companies including Tyson and Perdue, new grant options for food & ag research, India’s TIME winner of the year, and a plan to build 100 black soldier fly farms.
The funding comes hot on the heels of AgriProtein, the South African black soldier fly farming company, which raised $17.5 million last month.
The tiny larvae are put in a state of suspended animation for up to 10 days without refrigeration, enabling insect protein producers to focus on rearing and processing.
Water was the theme of the latest Foodshot Global challenge, and more specifically, how tech can help protect water as a resource for food and agriculture.
Industrial-scale insect farming is not for the faint-hearted. So what business models make sense, and who is going to fund the next wave of facilities?
Funding into Australian agrifoodtech startups fell 33% last year according to AgFunder data… But it could have been worse: global agrifoodtech funding fell 49% over the same period.
“In the first six years, we had more failures than successes,” says insect ag pioneer Kees Aarts.
Insect breeding and rearing/processing require very different skillsets, claims FreezeM, which supplies insect farmers with neonates in a state of ‘suspended animation.’
