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.
Investment for Australia agrifoodtech dropped 40% year-over-year in 2022, but enthusiasm for climate-focused companies remains robust.
Farmless—a Dutch startup using carbon dioxide, rather than sugar, to fuel its fermentation-based food production platform—has raised €1.2 million ($1.3 million) in a pre-seed round.
Dutch cultivated meat startup Mosa Meat has opened a new 30,000sq ft ‘scale-up plant’ in Maastricht as it edges closer to commercialization.
Agrifoodtech investment in Europe fell 46% to $5.1bn in 2022, consistent with a 44% drop in global funding. But there were some bright spots…
Precision fermentation startup The EVERY Co has teamed up with Alpha Foods to explore the potential of meat alternatives featuring ‘animal-free’ egg whites made with microbes instead of chickens.
Better Bite Ventures, a fund focused on alt protein startups in APAC, has invested in four startups under its early-stage First Bite initative.
Latin American agrifoodtech startups hoping to scale their solutions can now apply to the GLOCAL Game Changers LatAm Series 2023.
From ‘designer fats’ made by microbes to oleogels, the race is on to find replacements for animal fats in meat alternatives, say the founders of California-based startup Lypid.
US regulators have warned startups in the emerging field of ‘molecular farming’ that expressing animal proteins such as casein in genetically engineered plants will require strict allergen management protocols.
Liberation Labs—a startup on a mission to address capacity bottlenecks in biomanufacturing—has secured $30 million in equipment financing to support its first commercial-scale precision fermentation facility in the US.
