Meet the Founder: (cultivated) tortoise vs. chicken with Vow’s George Peppou
January 20, 2023
Creating sustainable meat means developing more than just the same old chicken and beef analogues, says Vow’s CEO and cofounder.
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Brief: Upside Foods gets world’s first FDA approval for cultivated meat in the US
November 16, 2022
The letter grants GRAS (generally recognized as safe) status to Upside’s cultivated chicken product, paving the way for a market launch in the US.
Brief: Vow lands $49.2m ahead of its cultivated quail launch in Singapore restaurants
November 14, 2022
PeakBridge and others participated in the Series A round, which Vow says will enable it to bring its cultivated quail to Singapore soon.
Meet the Founder: How Synonym’s Joshua Lachter finds inspiration in ‘the power of biology’
November 11, 2022
Synonym connects precision fermentation startups with production infrastructure to help them unlock the promise of synthetic biology.
Foodtech in focus: BioBetter bets on tobacco to bring down cultivated meat costs
October 6, 2022
BioBetter says it can bring down the cost of growth factors from the normal range of $50,000 – $500,000 per gram to a mere one dollar per gram.
Vow unveils southern hemisphere’s ‘largest’ cultivated meat facility, plans Singapore launch
October 4, 2022
The Factory 1 cultivated meat facility will handle commercial production for Vow’s “extremely delicious” first product it aims to launch this year.
Meet the Founder: How SCiFi Foods’ Joshua March went from sci-fi novels to cultivated meat CEO
September 16, 2022
The longtime entrepreneur describes the realities of founding a cultivated meat company, and offers insights for other founders and CEOs in the space.
Brief: Prolific Machines raises $42m from Breakthrough, Mayfield to slash cultivated meat costs
September 14, 2022
The San Francisco startup says it has found a way to bring down the cost of cultivated meat manufacturing with biotechnology and machine learning.
Meet the Founders: How Evolved Meats’ novel cell-based meat bypasses need for scaffolding
July 1, 2022
Evolved Meats’ co-founders share how their startup makes whole-cut cultivated meat without scaffolding or binders.
Data Snapshot: European climate investors should take broader view of alternative proteins
June 29, 2022
Insect protein and bio-textiles increasing in importance as alternative proteins become a bigger priority for climate-forward investors.
Brief: Cell cultured milk startup Brown Foods raises $2.36m from Y Combinator, AgFunder & others
June 9, 2022
Seed funding will enable the US- and India-based company to further develop its milk alternative made with mammalian cell cultured technology.
BREAKING: SCiFi Foods bags $22m in a16z-led round to bring hybrid alt beef burgers to market faster
June 8, 2022
Andreessen Horowitz led the Series A round, which will enable SCiFi to continue R&D on its blend of plant-based and cultivated beef burgers.
Brief: UPSIDE Foods bags $400m in cultivated meat’s largest funding to date
April 21, 2022
Pending regulatory approval, the US-based company hopes to bring its cultivated chicken to commercial markets later this year.
EXCLUSIVE: IntegriCulture debuts animal serum-free tech to radically reduce cultivated meat costs
April 1, 2022
The Japanese startup is one of several companies that have discovered methods for removing animal serum from the cell culture process.
Brief: Xi highlights alt-protein as central to Chinese food security
March 10, 2022
Xi said that China “should shift our focus from farmland only” and use biotechnology to “obtain calories and protein from plants, animals, and microorganisms.”
Asia Pacific alt-protein funding almost doubled last year, but region trails on fermentation: GFI
March 2, 2022
Latin America and the Middle East also saw their respective shares of global alt-protein funding increase year-on-year.
Asia became the ‘world’s factory’ for manufacturing. It’ll do the same for alt-protein, says Better Bite VC
February 24, 2022
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.
Brief: Wildtype reels in $100m to make sushi-grade cultivated salmon ‘ubiquitous’
February 22, 2022
But the startup needs to get regulatory approval before it can sell its cell-cultured salmon to US consumers.
Data Snapshot: Alt-protein is now in China’s 5-year plan. Here’s how much funding it raised in 2020
February 9, 2022
Cultivated meat and other “future foods” startups raised a total of $127 million in China during 2020.
Upside Foods’ acquisition of Cultured Decadence: All about the cell lines
January 26, 2022
Cultured Decadence has developed “proprietary cell lines and cell feed” for seafood products including lobster and other crustaceans.
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