36 alt seafood startups in 14 countries—spanning cultivated, plant-based, and fermentation-based segments—have joined forces to create a new trade association: Future Ocean Foods.
San Diego-based cellular aquaculture startup BlueNalu has raised $33.5m in a series B round from “new and existing investors.”
While the unit economics of cultivated chicken nuggets will likely be challenging for some time, making a high-value product such as Bluefin tuna in a bioreactor makes more sense, claims San Diego-based startup BlueNalu.
Aquaconnect will use the new capital to build up its product portfolio for both pre-harvest and post-harvest services for the aquaculture industry.
Victory Farms, East Africa’s largest commercial fish farmer, is setting its sights further afield in DRC, Tanzania and Rwanda.
The New Zealand startup just closed its pre-seed round.
Cultured Decadence has developed “proprietary cell lines and cell feed” for seafood products including lobster and other crustaceans.
The Chicago-based company will use the funds to commercialize its seafood analogs made with microbial fermentation.
CEO Sriram on why she made the leap from full-time scientist to founder – and how she reconciles vegetarianism with being a cultured meat eater.
The US startup will use the convertible note financing to complete its pilot production facility in San Diego. But its next factory could very well be in Asia, says CEO Lou Cooperhouse.
Hong Kong’s Avant will expand its focus beyond traditional Chinese cuisine with new products tailored to Western markets.
Shiok Meats is the first ‘lab-grown seafood’ venture in the aquaculture-focused VC’s portfolio, Aqua-Spark co-founder Amy Novogratz told AFN.
Two of Asia’s highest-funded alt-protein startups have joined forces to bring cultured, cellular ag-grown seafood to the masses.
Shiok Meats has just raised another $3 million in bridge funding as it sets its sights on commercialization of its cultured seafood products.
In the US, roughly 70% of seafood consumption is at restaurants and only 30% at home. With restaurant business falling off a ledge, what are the pandemic-evoked ramifications for seafood businesses? To find out, our resident fish geek called a variety of players in the chain to find out.
Canada’s NovoBind, which is developing a precision biologics platform to protect livestock against pathogenic bacteria, viruses, and parasites, has closed a Series A round of funding.
Recent academic work has found that oyster farming can remove nitrogen, phosphate and sediment from the water column making it more than just a profitable business with growing global demand, writes Chip Terry.
You may not realize that seafood is the fastest-growing protein category, with an annual growth rate surpassing that of all land-based animal meat combined. But the fish farming industry is in need of innovation to mitigate and reduce environmental concerns.
**UPDATED: MARCH 27, 13:55 ET. Added additional Aqua-Spark investment announced today, and corrected Aqua-Spark’s assets under management to €72.5m** BioFishency, an aquaculture filtration technology startup,
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