The category includes cell-cultured meat, plant-based analogs, fermented and fungi-based proteins, functional foods, and other novel ingredients.
Protein has become a bit of a battleground in Australia of late; but the economics suggest there’s plenty of room for all players – traditional and alternative.
GOOD Meat, the cell-cultured meat business of US alt-protein startup Eat Just, has secured $97 million in funding as a continuation of the $170 million
Qatar and US-based Eat Just will build what they say is “the MENA region’s first-ever facility for cultivated meat” in the Middle Eastern country.
New Carnivore has made seven deals to date, co-investing with leading VCs such as Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and DCVC.
However, the survey’s choice of terminology may be problematic.
The deal “sets an example for a novel way of building and growing a company as part of the accelerating [alt-protein] industry,” said Shiok Meats CEO Sandhya Sriram.
Cell lines for cultivated meat R&D are proving hard to come by. But don’t point the finger of blame at startups, as a major UK newspaper appeared to do this week.
As is the case with a lot of great Canadian ideas, the founders of Future Fields came up with theirs while waiting in line at Tim Hortons.
Nestlé is said to be planning a range of products which blend cultivated meat with plant-based protein.
The Israeli company secured the mega-funding from L Catteron and agrifood corporates BRF, Cargill, CJ CheilJedang, and Thai Union.
Ramping up production capacity is the top priority for GOOD Meat as Eat Just CEO says regulatory approval is less of a hurdle.
Japan’s SoftBank which co-led the round along with Palo Alto-based private equity firm Norwest and Singapore’s state-owned investment company Temasek.
Alternative proteins had a big year in 2019. But are they alternative or additional to traditional protein sources, ask F&A Next partners ahead of the conference in May?
New Age Meats just raised $2.7m in seed funding to broaden its product offerings from sausages into bacon and pork belly.
The raise — which brings Meatable’s total funding to date to $13 million — comes mainly from an existing investor base and The European Commission also contributed funds through its Eurostars Programme.
Aleph Farms — a startup designing bio-reactor grown and 3D-printable beef steaks — has been busily turning the International Space Station into, well, an International ‘Space Steak’ Station.
