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The agrifoodtech industry has descended into a high school movie-style food fight. It’s not only off-putting but is emerging as a dangerous cancel culture for farming and food production practices rather than people.
Impossible Foods has added Ginkgo Bioworks as a defendant in its patent infringement lawsuit against foodtech rival Motif Foodworks over meaty-tasting heme proteins.
Plantible Foods—a startup extracting a highly functional protein from the aquatic plant lemna—has opened a 140-acre lemna farm in Texas and launched its first product: a plant-based egg replacer it claims can “outperform eggs.”
Plant protein tech company Burcon NutraScience is still “actively seeking partnerships” to acquire the assets of distressed plant protein processor Merit Functional Foods, which went into receivership on March 1.
Cultivated meat startup Omeat has emerged from stealth armed with $40m to fund a novel approach to making meat from animal cells.
UPSIDE Foods and GOOD Meat will be the first to launch cultivated meat in the US after clearing the final hurdles required by regulators.
The US Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has agreed to review a patent granted to Impossible Foods following a petition by Motif FoodWorks, which is being sued by Impossible for patent infringement.
Bond Pet Food is carving a distinct path in the alt protein space by engineering yeast to produce animal proteins for pet food.
UPSIDE Foods has edged closer to commercialization in the US after receiving a thumbs up from USDA for its ‘cell-cultivated chicken’ label, seven months after securing a green light from the FDA.
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.
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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.
Latam startups fight food insecurity and inequality with agrifoodtech tools like farmer financing logistics and healthier ingredients.
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.
Japanese dairy giant Megmilk Snow Brand Co is investing in plant-based proteins via a joint venture with Singapore-based Agrocorp International.
“Wood Milk started with a simple idea,” says actress Aubrey Plaza in a new spoof ad from MilkPEP, the dairy industry-backed body behind the iconic ‘Got Milk’ ads. “I saw a tree and I asked myself: Can I drink this?”
IFT FIRST’s Startup Pavilion brings technical, business and scientific professionals under one roof — a true rarity at agrifood events.
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