“For me, supply is the absolute constraint in this [mycoprotein] market right now,” says ENOUGH CEO Jim Laird.
Under the deal, Leprino will have exclusive global rights to produce casein proteins made via Fooditive’s precision fermentation platform.
Dutch startup Rival Foods will start deploying shear cell technology—a novel approach to texturizing plant-based proteins that can create whole cuts—at a “commercially viable scale” this summer.
Meatable has slashed production times for cultivated pork by dramatically speeding up the process by which its stem cells differentiate into fat and muscle.
“In the first six years, we had more failures than successes,” says insect ag pioneer Kees Aarts.
Funding for cultivated meat peaked at $989m in 2021, dipped slightly to $807m in 2022, then dropped sharply to just $177m in 2023.
Many consumers remain blissfully unaware that it slaughters billions of male chicks every year… but not to put meat on the table.
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.
Tyson will take a minority stake in Protix and fund further expansion of the latter’s insect protein business for animal feed and pet food.
Alt protein startup ENOUGH has raised $43.6 m in a series C round led by World Fund CPT Capital to expand its mycoprotein business.
Dutch cultivated meat startup Meatable has raised $35m in a series B round led by Agronomics, taking its total funding to $95m as it gears up to launch in Singapore next year.
Food tech fantasy or the future of meat? We catch up with Dr. Mark Post to discuss progress in cultivated meat,10 years after he unveiled a rather pricey burger at a press conference in London…
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?
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.
Pennsylvania-based Four Growers just released its second-generation automatic harvester for greenhouse-grown tomatoes.
Dutch cultivated meat startup Mosa Meat has opened a new 30,000sq ft ‘scale-up plant’ in Maastricht as it edges closer to commercialization.
Ÿnsect will shutter its Netherlands facility and shift from animal feed production to pet feed as the company strives for profitability.
Source.ag’s AI-based system creates “extreme efficiencies” in greenhouse production and improve food security and transparency, says Astanor.
Two Boston startups welcomed new executives and McDonalds got a new chief impact officer.
Investors should proactively engage with animal protein and feed producers and support farmer transitions on the path toward reducing nitrogen levels.
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