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Cultivated Seafood

New Cultivated Seafood Startup E-FISHient Launched in Collab with Israeli Ministry of Agriculture

E-FISHient, a new cultivated seafood startup, has been launched in Israel. After success in the cultivated meat field, BioMeat Foodtech, the publicly traded Israeli investment fund, has collaborated with the Volcani Institute – a governmental organization and officially an arm of the Ministry of Agriculture – to develop the cultivated fish meat company. The Volcani Center, Israel’s national agricultural R&D center, will back the joint E-FISHient venture which will manufacture and market cultivated tilapia fish based on non-animal serum. The Nile tilapia is one of the most commonly grown fish species in global aquaculture – thus presenting a large market, while the serum itself is an additional product intended to serve the whole cultivated meat industry in general.  The BioMeat Foodtech partnership will hold the …

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EFISHient

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Cultivated Seafood

New Cultivated Seafood Startup E-FISHient Launched in Collab with Israeli Ministry of Agriculture

E-FISHient, a new cultivated seafood startup, has been launched in Israel. After success in the cultivated meat field, BioMeat Foodtech, the publicly traded Israeli investment fund, has collaborated with the Volcani Institute – a governmental organization and officially an arm of the Ministry of Agriculture – to develop the cultivated fish meat company. The Volcani Center, Israel’s national agricultural R&D center, will back the joint E-FISHient venture which will manufacture and market cultivated tilapia fish based on non-animal serum. The Nile tilapia is one of the most commonly grown fish species in global aquaculture – thus presenting a large market, while the serum itself is an additional product intended to serve the whole cultivated meat industry in general.  The BioMeat Foodtech partnership will hold the …

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Startups, Accelerators & Incubators

Bio Meat Foodtech and Rilbite Pen New Deal at Israel’s Foodtech Vanguard 

Israeli alt protein companies Bio Meat Foodtech and Rilbite have signed a non-committal memorandum of understanding (MOU) as Israel continues to be a greenhouse of foodtech innovation and investment.  Established in November 2020 for the purpose of investing in and holding foodtech research and development projects, Bio Meat Foodtech went public with an IPO this year and is traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange valued at NIS 25.1 million (USD $7.6 million). Rilbite is a clean label plant-based meat producer which develops computational advanced hydrodynamics to create its next gen alt meats.  Bio Meat Foodtech will invest USD $1 million in Rilbite in return for a further 9% of its shares as part of the MOU, with Rilbite supplying products to Bio Meat Foodtech …

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