GFI highlights chicken-and-egg conundrum facing cultivated meat industry
March 14, 2024
How will cultivated meat transition from a loss-making novelty served at a handful of restaurants to a viable alternative to animal ag?
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Brief: Orbillion raises new capital for predictive modeling platform to de-risk cultivated meat scaleup
March 14, 2024
Berkeley-based Orbillion reckons it can achieve economic production for cell-cultured Wagyu beef “at around 2,000 liters in scale,” says cofounder and CEO Dr. Patricia Bubner.
Eat Just CEO: Large-scale cultivated meat production requires a new operating model
March 6, 2024
“It is more likely than not that a CRISPR-enabled cell line will ultimately be necessary [for profitable production at scale],” says Eat Just CEO Josh Tetrick.
UPSIDE Foods’ large-scale cultivated meat plant on hold until it delivers ‘key proof points” at smaller site
February 15, 2024
Less than five months after announcing its first commercial-scale cultivated meat plant in Glenview, Illinois, UPSIDE Foods has hit pause…
Preliminary AgFunder data point to 78% decline in cultivated meat funding in 2023; investors blame ‘general risk aversion’
February 7, 2024
Funding for cultivated meat peaked at $989m in 2021, dipped slightly to $807m in 2022, then dropped sharply to just $177m in 2023.
More meat, more quickly: ProFuse Technology unveils non-GM cell lines for cultivated meat
February 6, 2024
The ‘PROFUSE-B8’ bovine myoblasts—muscle progenitor cells—are spontaneously immortalized without the use of genetic engineering.
Cultivated meat in the spotlight at Tufts cellular ag day: ‘Focusing on science experiments that cannot scale is misleading people’
January 22, 2024
We’re kidding ourselves if we think we can make the unit economics add up for cultivated meat without deploying ‘much much larger’ bioreactors, says Ark Biotech.
Meet the founder: ORF Genetics’ Dr. Björn Örvar on why barley could unlock the potential of cultivated meat
July 28, 2023
What’s the most efficient production platform for growth factors, pricey proteins used to stimulate cell growth and differentiation in cultivated meat?
Omeat emerges from stealth armed with $40m to scale novel approach to cultivated meat production
June 22, 2023
Cultivated meat startup Omeat has emerged from stealth armed with $40m to fund a novel approach to making meat from animal cells.
‘A truly historic moment…’ UPSIDE Foods and GOOD Meat clear final hurdles to launch cultivated meat in the US
June 21, 2023
UPSIDE Foods and GOOD Meat will be the first to launch cultivated meat in the US after clearing the final hurdles required by regulators.
Cultivated meat startup Higher Steaks raises $30 million series A, rebrands as ‘Uncommon’
June 9, 2023
UK-based Higher Steaks has rebranded as Uncommon and raised $30m in a series A round to scale production of cultivated pork using technology it claims gives it a competitive edge by speeding up the cell differentiation process.
Cultivated meat: Foodtech fantasy or the future of meat? ‘None of this stuff makes any commercial sense until everyone’s eating it’
June 1, 2023
Five or six years ago the press coverage around cultivated meat was almost universally positive. Today, we’re seeing headlines about cancerous cells, ‘vaporware,’ and business failures. So where does the industry go from here?
🎥SCiFi Foods on cultivated meat unit economics: ‘We can make a blended product commercially viable without needing crazy-scale bioreactors’
June 1, 2023
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.
🎥 Meatable CEO: ‘We believe we have the fastest process in the field to make cultivated meat’
May 30, 2023
Dutch startup Meatable has slashed production times for cultivated pork from three weeks to eight days in the past year by dramatically speeding up the process by which its stem cells differentiate into fat and muscle, transforming its unit economics.
Mosa Meat opens new facility in Maastricht, sees ‘a clear path towards price parity’ for cultivated meat
May 8, 2023
Dutch cultivated meat startup Mosa Meat has opened a new 30,000sq ft ‘scale-up plant’ in Maastricht as it edges closer to commercialization.
Israeli startup Ever After Foods addresses ‘critical scaling challenge’ in cultivated meat: ‘We have a huge cost advantage’
March 1, 2023
Israeli startup Ever After Foods (formerly Plurinuva) has unveiled technology it claims can transform the unit economics of cultivated meat by reducing the capex required to build facilities and increasing the productivity of tissue production.
Aleph Farms strikes deals in Singapore and Israel to advance ‘asset-light’ approach to scaling cultivated meat
March 1, 2023
Israeli startup Aleph Farms has struck deals enabling it to take an “asset-light” approach to scaling up cultivated meat production in Israel and Singapore. CEO Didier Toubia tells AFN Aleph is also scouting for sites in the US for a larger scale facility and believes it can achieve cost parity with premium beef by 2028.
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.
Don’t blame business for cultivated meat’s cell line shortage. Public funding is the problem
July 23, 2021
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.
Here’s how Eat Just’s GOOD Meat will spend its latest $170m funding
May 24, 2021
Ramping up production capacity is the top priority for GOOD Meat as Eat Just CEO says regulatory approval is less of a hurdle.
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