Investment in agriculture gene editing grew 206% YoY in H1 2024, hinting at sector recovery and new momentum
August 21, 2024
Agriculture-related gene editing startups have raised over $2.7 billion since 2012.
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Arda Biomaterials’ cofounder talks choosing alt-materials over alt-meats and how craft beer inspired a luxury bag
August 9, 2024
“Materials are much more forgiving than protein isolates for food,” Brett Cotten tells AgFunderNews.
Biomanufacturing game-changer? Enduro Genetics unveils elegant solution to declining cell productivity
June 5, 2024
Enduro Genetics has agreements with ‘leading industry players in biomanufacturing that have fully recognized that if this works, this is a game changer,’ says CEO and ex-Novozymes exec Christian Munch.
Exclusive: Triplebar Bio teams up with FrieslandCampina Ingredients to make lactoferrin via precision fermentation
March 19, 2024
By producing it in fermentation tanks using microbial strains optimized by Triplebar Bio, FrieslandCampina Ingredients hopes to to unlock new markets for lactoferrin.
Tierra Biosciences raises $11.4m series A to expand designer protein-to-order platform
March 12, 2024
Ditch the cell, and use its internal machinery to produce proteins, and you can slash the cost and increase the speed of protein synthesis, says Tierra Biosciences.
Exclusive: BSF ‘breeding as a service’ startup FreezeM nets $14.2m series A. ‘We want to be the seed company for the insect ag industry’
February 14, 2024
Insect breeding and rearing/processing require very different skillsets, claims FreezeM, which supplies insect farmers with neonates in a state of ‘suspended animation.’
One-stop CRO shop: Cromatic raises $5.3m to build integrated platform for outsourcing R&D
November 9, 2023
Apps helping us find the perfect love match are ubiquitous. But there are precious few online tools to help biotech companies find the perfect contract research organization (CRO), says Cromatic.
Scale can transform the unit economics of precision fermentation, but it’s ‘not the most powerful lever,’ says Synonym
November 7, 2023
Economies of scale will drive down the cost of precision fermentation. But advances in titer, productivity, and yield are equally important, says Synonym.
Triplebar raises $20m to expand bioproduct design engine ‘running evolution at hyper-speed’
October 30, 2023
Triplebar’s system enables it to screen millions of mutations and optimize a yeast strain, for example, over many generations at record speed, effectively “running evolution at hyper-speed.”
Aanika Biosciences woos growers by bundling its bio barcodes with insurance: ‘We’re putting our money where our mouth is’
October 4, 2023
Aanika Biosciences makes invisible, edible tags from inactivated bacterial spores that can be digitally encoded with ‘DNA watermarks’ that can be read like barcodes with PCR tests.
Data snapshot: Fish, flies and algae outshine crop CEA in the $600m+ of novel farming systems funding so far in 2023
September 6, 2023
The novel farming systems category has raised $826 million so far in 2023, according to preliminary data from AgFunder.
Brief: Jellatech lands $3.5m to produce collagen without having to ‘mine the animal’
August 22, 2023
The oversubscribed seed round will go towards scaling Jellatech’s proprietary cell-ag process and working towards commercialization.
Clearing the air: Neoplants disrupts air purification market with bioengineered houseplants
August 8, 2023
French biotech startup Neoplants has come up with a novel approach to tackle a class of indoor air pollutants called volatile organic compounds.
Q&A: GRIDX CEO on why Argentina is leading Latin America’s boom in biotech innovation
July 18, 2023
GRIDX cofounder and CEO Matías Peire on how his company helps scientists build startups that are leading the way for Latin America biotech.
Meet the founder: VM Agritech’s Chris Wightman tackles fungicide resistance with ‘turbo-charged’ copper-based solutions
April 7, 2023
Copper has been used as a fungicide since the 1800s with no pathogen resistance. VM Agritech builds on this ancient solution with a broad-spectrum, copper-and-zinc-based fungicide.
Funding to Biomaterials startups bucks global decline increasing 14% to $2.2bn as industry looks for non-synthetic alternatives
March 30, 2023
Innovators creating bio-based alternatives to synthetic, fossil fuel and animal-based products and materials are capturing investor attention.
Exclusive: Cocoon Bioscience closes $16m round to turn moths into bioreactors for cultivated meat
March 20, 2023
Cocoon Bioscience will grow its high-value proteins business, which includes developing recombinant growth factors for cultivated meat.
Exclusive: Israeli startup deploys CRISPR to ‘virtually eliminate’ bitter-tasting saponins in yellow peas
March 16, 2023
Israeli startup Plantae Bioscience uses CRISPR gene editing techniques to slash levels of bitter-tasting saponins in yellow peas, addressing a major pain point in the plant protein industry.
Misinformation and over-generalization: The future of GMO in Kenya
March 3, 2023
‘Are GMOs the path to food security?’ A session turned debate on the adoption of GMOs in Kenya following the government’s decision to lift its ban sought to address this question.
Elo Life Systems raises $24.5m to support new sweetener, disease-resistant Cavendish banana
February 15, 2023
Elo Life Systems has closed a $24.5m Series A to accelerate the development of a natural high-intensity sweetener, and Cavendish bananas engineered to resist the devastating Fusarium wilt fungal disease threatening global banana production.
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