Exclusive: Onego Bio nets $15.2m to advance animal-free egg protein production
July 17, 2024
The new funding is from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator program and additional series A investors.
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World’s #1 Spanish omelet maker Grupo Palacios to formulate with The EVERY Co’s hen-less egg
June 17, 2024
Palacios’ Spanish omelets are sold in a ready-to-eat format in retail and foodservice locations in multiple countries.
Kipster is second firm in US to commit to in ovo sexing tech to end culling of male chicks
May 30, 2024
The technology—which will enable Kipster to determine the sex of chicks well before they hatch—will be implemented in the fall at the company’s farm in Indiana.
Unilever brand The Vegetarian Butcher partners with ‘animal-free’ egg protein pioneer The EVERY Co
May 15, 2024
Like many players in the space, The Vegetarian Butcher has been exploring clean label binders that can serve as alternatives to egg white and methylcellulose in meat alternatives.
The EVERY Company to ‘launch with multinationals’ this year as it ramps up manufacturing capacity for animal free egg proteins
February 2, 2024
According to its CEO: “We still have quite a bit of runway as we’ve been very lean. Part of that is because we’ve never invested in large-scale production capacity [in-house] and we’ve never entered the B2C world.”
In-ovo sexing reaches 15% penetration in EU as tech to end male chick culling advances
December 13, 2023
Many consumers remain blissfully unaware that it slaughters billions of male chicks every year… but not to put meat on the table.
BREAKING: In Ovo bags $42m from European Investment Bank to make culling of male chicks ‘a thing of the past’
November 2, 2023
The loan will help In Ovo expand its technology that determines the sex of hatching eggs, eliminating the need to cull day-old male chicks.
Gene editing promises an ethical, efficient solution to end male chick culling. Why are we afraid to execute?
May 17, 2023
The Egg-Tech Prize—a global competition to find scalable technologies to sex chicks before they hatch—remains unclaimed because none of the applicants meet the criteria. It’s time to explore gene editing approaches, says eggXYt CEO Yehuda Elram.
Brief: Cultivated meat included under China’s Five-Year Plan for the first time
January 31, 2022
‘Future food’ is one of several areas outlined in a new document setting out agricultural policy objectives under the country’s 14th Five-Year Plan.
Brief: The EVERY Company raises $175m to ferment animal-free proteins at scale
December 7, 2021
The San Francisco precision fermentation company will scale up its process for brewing animal-free egg proteins and other high-functioning ingredients.
Perfeggt readies its chicken-less egg alternative with $2.8m fundraise
November 25, 2021
The Berlin-based company will launch its liquid egg alternative in Germany and several other European countries early next year.
Plant-based ‘whole egg’ startup Float Foods scores seed funding from VCs, corporates
June 8, 2021
The Singaporean startup has created OnlyEg: a legumes-based ‘whole egg’ replacement that comprises a separate white and yolk.
EXCLUSIVE: In Ovo raises funding & hits milestone 150,000 chicks hatched without culling
March 29, 2021
The Netherlands startup can identify male chicken eggs before a fetus develops, allowing the egg industry to avoid the culling of 6.5 billion male chicks each year.
Plant-based whole egg startup Float Foods gets Temasek grant
March 15, 2021
The Singapore-based startup will use the project development grant money to commercialize OnlyEg, its legume-based egg substitute which comprises a distinct white and yolk.
Startup Spotlight: Soos is using sound waves to tackle male chick culling in the egg industry
December 23, 2020
Israel’s Soos uses sound waves to transform male chicken embryos – which are typically culled once hatched – into commercially viable egg-laying females.
Opinion: 50 Shades of Food Transparency
February 24, 2020
Technology is helping food companies connect consumers to their food but it’s also creating new opportunities to mislead them. Where do we draw the line between truth and questionable marketing?
Egg white replacement ingredient company scores €500k seed funding from Dutch VCs
February 4, 2020
A Wageningen spin-out, the company claims its non-GMO animal-free replacement is more cost-effective than traditional egg whites.
French poultry tech startup Tibot Technologies raises €3m seed round for health-boosting robot
October 16, 2019
The startup’s robots roam around poultry houses floors to encourage more bird movement and to prevent hens from laying eggs outside designated nest boxes.
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