Meet the founder: Protix’s Kees Aarts on insect ag… ‘You can’t come in with a Silicon Valley playbook and outcompete a legacy industry in 3 years’ March 1, 2024 “In the first six years, we had more failures than successes,” says insect ag pioneer Kees Aarts.
Exclusive: BSF ‘breeding as a service’ startup FreezeM nets $14.2m series A. ‘We want to be the seed company for the insect ag industry’ February 14, 2024 Insect breeding and rearing/processing require very different skillsets, claims FreezeM, which supplies insect farmers with neonates in a state of ‘suspended animation.’
Meet the founder: Bond Pet Foods’ Rich Kelleman on pet parents, pivots, and ‘de-risking’ alt protein June 16, 2023 Bond Pet Food is carving a distinct path in the alt protein space by engineering yeast to produce animal proteins for pet food.
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