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- Florida-based venture capital firm Clear Current Capital announces its new impact fund focusing on early stage investments in US companies in the plant-based food, cell-cultured […]
- The New Food Invest is a 3-in-1 conference format, catering for three different time zones on a single day: it provides convenient access for the […]
- Cellular agriculture is an emerging field that has the potential to mitigate many of the issues within our food systems and provide an alternative solution. […]
- This course is timely since it touches a hot topic, which is relevant to society, industry and consumers in general. It is relevant to the […]
- Consumer acceptance will be crucial to the success of cellular agriculture. But will Europeans be willing to try and buy cultured products? This webinar will […]
Compagnies and key players
- Australian startup Nourish Ingredients, which makes plant-based fats, announced today that it has raised $11 million (USD) in initial funding. The round was led by […]
- MeaTech received net proceeds from this offering of approximately $21.9 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by MeaTech. MeaTech […]
- Dutch cultured meat startup Meatable announced today that it has raised a $47 million Series A round of funding. Investors include Dr. Rick Klausner, Section […]
- Bluu Biosciences has raised €7 million in a round of financing from investors including Manta Ray Ventures, Norrsken VC, Be8, CPT Capital and Lever VC […]
- So why is it that women are particularly well-represented in Asian plant-based and cultivated meat companies, compared with other industries and regions? We spoke to some […]
Market
- Companies developing sustainable meat and dairy alternatives smashed records with a €2.6B ($3.1B) haul last year. Why has it been such a bumper harvest? In […]
- In this prospective Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study of cultivated meat (CM, also sometimes referred to as cell-based meat, clean meat, cultured meat and in-vitro […]
- Meanwhile, Memphis Meats, which Gates namechecked in the Technology Review interview, wants to avoid animals altogether whenever possible—including by harvesting cells from procedures like animal […]
- Today, we are on the cusp of another breakthrough in technology, this time in seafood and meat production, and we are being asked to select […]
- So it’s understandable that Brown of Impossible Foods, and others in the alternative meat industry, are bullish on the idea that their products are the […]
Laws, ethics and lobbies
- Half of the farmers surveyed by Purdue University said plant-based proteins could hold up to 10% of the meat market in five years and some […]
- The environmental benefits of cell-cultured meat also mean less environmental destruction. Conventional meat production requires massive amounts of land for grazing and food production. Just […]
- Mainland Chinese cultivated meat startup Joes Future Food has raised 20 million RMB (US$3 million) in an angel investment round. The food tech, recently rebranded […]
- The first move is the government initiative in establishing the Food Tech Research Group. The Food Tech Research Group, including over 100 companies, was launched […]
- The dispute began late last year after Miyoko’s was told by the Department of Food & Agriculture to drop the terms ‘butter,’ ‘lactose-free,’ hormone-free’ and ‘cruelty-free,’ […]
Research
- The interest for artificial meat has recently expanded. However, from the literature, perception of artificial meat in China is not well known. A survey was […]
- From the perspective of bioethics, the research, development and production of cell cultured meat can help ensure the sustainable development of human society, improve animal […]
- Spinach, a cost-efficient and environmentally friendly scaffold, provided an edible platform upon which a team of researchers led by a Boston College engineer has grown […]
- If a large new production facility runs on renewable energy, the carbon footprint of cultivated meat would be lower than conventional beef, pork, and chicken. […]
- “Using techniques developed for regenerative medicine, we succeeded in culturing millimeter-sized chunks of meat wherein alignment of the myotubes help mimic the texture and mouthfeel […]
Other alternatives to meat
- Austrian-based Revo Foods announced on Facebook it will host what it believes is the ‘world’s first’ public tasting event for its 3D-printed, plant-based ‘Salmon with […]
- The animal-free pepsin – which will be distributed by Ingredion – has the same functionality as the animal-derived variety, with the added benefits of “safe and […]
- But there is a rising star on the alternative protein scene—a versatile platform that is simultaneously familiar and well established yet completely underexplored and untapped […]
- While other well-known meat alternative companies like Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat make plant-based protein from soy and peas, Air Protein is the first to […]
- Yesterday, Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its decision to decline the advocacy group’s […]