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.
Roughly 70% of German agrifood’s $3.3 billion in funding went to just two companies, both part of the now-struggling instant-delivery sector.
Fund II will invest in ag biotech and digital solutions up and down the agrifood value chain, from fintech solutions to crop science and animal health.
Future Crops vertically farms its produce in a soil-based substrate which “sticks with what Mother Nature tells us,” Grinspan tells AFN. Plus it’s kosher.
Future Crops stands to benefit from Tencent’s deep domain expertise in AI and automation – as well as its massive footprint in the Asian tech ecosystem.
The startup recently raised $10 million in a seed round led by Acre Venture Partners.
Vestkorn Milling supplies proteins, fibers, and starches to manufacturers of plant-based meat alternatives, pet foods, and animal feed.
The Hollywood actor, who’s also joining the startups in an advisory capacity, said they’re solving “some of the most pressing issues [in] industrial beef production.”
Picnic dispatches groceries from strategically located, automated hubs to its customers’ doorsteps using electric minivans.
The Dutch government may consider farm expropriation, among other measures, in an effort to reduce nitrogen emissions.
The Dutch company claims that a quarter-teaspoon of Bovaer administered per cow, per day can reduce enteric methane emissions by up to 90%.
ReNature worked with a Brazilian farmer cooperative to generate the credits in partnership with Rabobank’s carbon marketplace, Acorn – with Microsoft the buyer.
This marks the third acquisition for CropX since the start of 2020 as it aims to offer the most comprehensive suite of tech services to farmers.
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