Tag: cellular agriculture

Bond Pet Foods raises $1.2m seed round to take the animal out of pet food

December 5, 2019

Did you know that if America's cats and dogs were a country, they'd be the fifth largest consumer of meat products globally? Now add the world's pets into that; that's a big contribution to the carbon footprint of the world's meat industry.

BRIEF: Kraft Heinz’s VC invests in New Culture $3.5m seed round for cell-grown cheese

September 10, 2019

New Culture is making dairy cheese without animals instead using fermentation, the addition plant-based fats, sugars and traditional cheesemaking process.

New Harvest 2019: Envisioning a food system built around cells, not animals

August 1, 2019

Investors are paying attention. So are larger meat, dairy and seafood groups. And yet the cell ag industry still has a long way to go, agreed delegates of the recent New Harvest conference in Boston. Brittany Solano reports for AFN.

New Harvest Conference

July 19, 2019

Join us for two full days of programming highlighting the latest developments in the exciting new field of cellular agriculture. Experience compelling talks and interactive exhibitions by leading startups and researchers to discover cellular agriculture’s applications to food, materials, and more in an accessible and interdisciplinary manner.

FDA and USDA Create Framework for Cell-Cultured Meat Regulation, But Labeling, Social License Still Uncertain

March 11, 2019

The US Department of Agriculture and the US Food and Drug Administration have established an inter-agency framework for regulating food items produced using cellular agriculture methods of meat and poultry production.

Finless Foods Raises $3.5m Seed Round to Culture Bluefin Tuna

June 20, 2018

Finless is focused on culturing higher-end species of fish like salmon and bluefin tuna and expects to be able to sell their product below market price of $100-$200 per pound for bluefin by the end of 2019.

Tyson Invests in Israeli Cultured Meat Startup Future Meat Technologies

May 2, 2018

Future Meat Technologies, an Israeli startup manufacturing meat from animal cells in a laboratory, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding, in a round led by Tyson Ventures, the venture arm of the meat giant.

Five Cultured Meat Startups Raise Funding as Fledgling Industry Comes into Focus

April 23, 2018

So far in 2018, at least five startups using cellular agriculture, the science behind cultured meat that can be used to manufacture many animal products in a lab setting, have raised funds as this fledgling industry diversifies and grows.

Ag Industry Brief: More Exec Churn at Chipotle, EU Changes Protocol on GMOs, TechAccel Funds New Grants, more

March 16, 2018

Chipotle loses a controversial executive, cultured leather comes to New York, TechAccel commits to innovation at UC Davis, and more in this week's brief.

Memphis Meats Adds Tyson to Investor List With Cargill, Gates, Branson, Musk, more

January 29, 2018

Cargill and other unspecified “food industry giants” joined the round, bringing the cultured meat company’s all time fundraising total to $22 million.

Want Sustainable Protein? Look to Dairy Tech

January 25, 2018

Today dairy is our most efficient form of animal protein delivery, but large efficiency improvement opportunities remain and dairy tech can help.

Israeli Cultured Meat Startup SuperMeat Raises $3m Seed Round

January 2, 2018

Israeli cultured meat startup SuperMeat has raised a $3 million seed round to continue to develop its cultured chicken product in the first of what will likely be several funding rounds in the area of cellular agriculture this year.

New Harvest 2017

October 11, 2017

New Harvest, the 501(c)(3) research institute advancing technologies to produce meat from cell culture, is hosting their second annual conference dedicated to cellular agriculture. Think: real meat, milk, eggs, leather, and more made from cell culture, synthetic biology, and tissue engineering.