The 2020 Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit is coming up on November 18-20. This year’s summit will be held virtually, with twelve agri-food startups presenting their new technologies. Among them are several plant-based and alt-protein companies.
Aleph Farms, the Israel-based leader in growing steak directly from non-GMO animal cells, launches its ‘Aleph Zero’ program focused on cultivating meat for space exploration, enabling “human life to become multiplanetary and unconditional nutrition to […]
Meat-Tech 3D Ltd, a developer of industrial-scale cultivated meat production technologies based on advanced 3D bioprinting, announces it has made an initial €1M investment in Belgian cultured fat startup Peace of Meat, as part of […]
The EU is subsidising a research program from the Meat4All consortium to the amount of 2.7M Euros, the consortium believes this is the first time a cell-based meat project has received financial backing from Brussels, […]
The founders of Dutch startup Those Vegan Cowboys have launched a search for a starter culture that will turn grass into real milk proteins. Jaap Korteweg and Niko Koffeman, who previously founded The Vegetarian Butcher, […]
It was announced this morning that Netherlands-based cultured meat pioneers Mosa Meat has secured EUR 55M as part of a Series B funding round led by Blue Horizon Ventures, a VC firm founded by Roger […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF), an independent federal agency of the US government, has just awarded the University of California Davis with a $3.5 million five-year grant for cultured meat research. With this investment, North […]
Brightseed, a US-based biosciences and AI company, announces today that it has raised $27 million in growth financing, bringing its total funding to $52 million. The company is committed to generating new knowledge from plants […]
Japan’s Shin-Etsu Chemical, the largest chemical company in Japan, ranked No. 9 in Forbes Global 2000 for chemical sector, is reportedly released its intentions to enter the plantbased meat sector to benefit from the rising […]
Vow, a Sydney-based innovative food startup developing unconventional meat products directly from animal cells, just announced the world-first culinary demonstration of its multi-species meat platform with top Australian chefs Neil Perry and Corey Costelloe on […]
Israeli food-tech startup SavorEat has raised $4.75 million in capital in two financing rounds. With these investments, the company plans to develop a new generation of meat alternatives using customised 3D printing technology.
Plant-based alternatives to meat and dairy products have had huge success in recent years, and seafood replacements may not be far behind. Companies like BlueNalu and Good Catch are providing tasty seafood alternatives to the […]
In an earlier article about Higher Steaks, a leading UK food tech company, we said the company had revealed “the world’s first cultivated bacon and pork belly”. We have since been contacted by Mission Barns, […]
Geltor yesterday announced that it has closed its Series B financing round at $91.3M. The California based biodesign company creates advanced designer animal-free products aimed at consumer brands with global scale in the beauty, nutraceuticals, […]
Higher Steaks, a leading food technology company in the UK, yesterday revealed the world’s first cultivated bacon and pork belly, establishing the Bristol-based company as the market leader in the cultivated pork sector. We spoke […]
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