Dutch startup Meatable has slashed production times for cultivated pork from three weeks to eight days in the past year by dramatically speeding up the process by which its stem cells differentiate into fat and muscle, transforming its unit economics.
Alt protein investor Lever VC has released its internal playbook for assessing the scientific progress of early-stage cultivated meat companies to help investors place more informed bets in a “complex and nascent industry” and help avoid a “Theranos-style outcome.”
Dutch cultivated meat startup Mosa Meat has opened a new 30,000sq ft ‘scale-up plant’ in Maastricht as it edges closer to commercialization.
“It’s going to take fully-fledged tissue muscle tissue to convince die hard meat lovers [to eat cell-cultured meat],” says the founder of Myodenovo, a cultivated meat startup emerging from stealth with a mission to create thick, whole cuts, starting with a filet mignon steak.
Cultivated meat startup New Age Eats has made the ‘painful decision’ to shut down after failing to secure funding to complete work on its pilot plant in Alameda, CA.
The San Francisco startup says it has found a way to bring down the cost of cultivated meat manufacturing with biotechnology and machine learning.
Evolved Meats’ co-founders share how their startup makes whole-cut cultivated meat without scaffolding or binders.
Seed funding will enable the US- and India-based company to further develop its milk alternative made with mammalian cell cultured technology.
The Japanese startup is one of several companies that have discovered methods for removing animal serum from the cell culture process.
Lowercarbon Capital led the round.
Xi said that China “should shift our focus from farmland only” and use biotechnology to “obtain calories and protein from plants, animals, and microorganisms.”
The firm has made the first close of its $15 million maiden fund, which it claims is the first to exclusively back Asia Pacific alt-protein startups.
But the startup needs to get regulatory approval before it can sell its cell-cultured salmon to US consumers.
Cultivated meat and other “future foods” startups raised a total of $127 million in China during 2020.
‘Future food’ is one of several areas outlined in a new document setting out agricultural policy objectives under the country’s 14th Five-Year Plan.
Cultured Decadence has developed “proprietary cell lines and cell feed” for seafood products including lobster and other crustaceans.
It aims to create a “universally accessible cellular agriculture platform” by providing growth media and other solutions at relatively low cost.
It’s the largest single funding round yet for a cell-cultured meat startup, according to AgFunder data.
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TurtleTree said it will use the capital to move closer towards the commercial launch of its first cell-based milk protein products.
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