Breaking: Aleph Farms nabs ‘world’s first’ pre-market approval for cultivated beef
Israel’s Ministry of Health has issued a “no questions” letter granting the company pre-approval for its cultivated beef steaks.
Israel’s Ministry of Health has issued a “no questions” letter granting the company pre-approval for its cultivated beef steaks.
Who will fund cultivated meat facilities if VC funds are no longer willing to stump up cash for capex projects?
Bioreactor specialist ABEC claims it is owed $100m in cash and stock for work done on Eat Just’s GOOD Meat cultivated meat business.
To find out, foodtech editor Elaine Watson fired off a few emails to startups she’s covered on AgFunderNews this year to get a sense of what is disrupting their sleep, with a particular emphasis on the alt protein space.
The UMAMI/Cell AgriTech facility in Malaysia—the first phase of which is set to come online in Q1, 2025—has a projected annual output of 3,000+ tons (6 million pounds) of cultivated meat/seafood.
Meatiply’s focus on the production of complex value-added compounds using animal cells will allow it to create cultivated meat products with added health benefits, claims the startup.
Investors were pushing cultivated meat startups “to grow as quick and as big as possible while the technologies were not yet mature enough,” says Aleph Farms CEO Didier Toubia.
Everyone agrees that the cost of cell culture media has got to come down dramatically if cultivated meat is going to gain market traction. But what’s the most efficient way to do it?
San Diego-based cellular aquaculture startup BlueNalu has raised $33.5m in a series B round from “new and existing investors.”
While the unit economics of cultivated chicken nuggets will likely be challenging for some time, making a high-value product such as Bluefin tuna in a bioreactor makes more sense, claims San Diego-based startup BlueNalu.
What is Eat Just? A foodtech pioneer attempting to disrupt not one, but two huge addressable markets, or a “house of cards built on one individual’s ability to separate people from their money?”
London-based startup Hoxton Farms has opened a pilot facility to make cultivated fat, the ‘magic ingredient that makes meat smell, brown, sizzle, and taste incredible…’
UPSIDE Foods aims to break ground on a commercial-scale cultivated meat facility in Glenview, Illinois, later this year that will become operational in 2025.
Eat Just’s GOOD Meat cultivated meat division has been sued by a second engineering firm (CRB) over alleged non-payment of bills.
Like many startups, TurtleTree has made a strategic pivot, shifting from cell-cultured milk to producing high-value dairy bioactives via precision fermentation.
Omeat—which is scaling up a novel approach to cultivated meat production—is selling an affordable and ‘highly effective’ alternative to FBS.
Changes in precision fermentation will “make a lot of current technology obsolete,” says Bill Liao, general partner at global VC fund SOSV.
Some commentators argue that cultivated meat is a food tech fantasy. So are they right? It all depends on your approach, says Joshua March, cofounder and CEO at San Leandro-based startup SciFi Foods.
“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.
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