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.
Cellular agriculture startups aim to solve agrifood’s biggest sustainability problems. But smallholders must be part of the solution, writes Saron Berhane.
TurtleTree said it will use the capital to move closer towards the commercial launch of its first cell-based milk protein products.
It aims to “get cell-cultured meat onto the tables of Chinese consumers, providing them with healthier, safer, and lower-carbon meat products,” according to co-founder Ding Shijie.
The category includes cell-cultured meat, plant-based analogs, fermented and fungi-based proteins, functional foods, and other novel ingredients.
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