NEW TECH FOODS

Believer Meats has announced three new executive leadership appointments, effective immediately, as it prepares for commercialisation.

Campden BRI and Cellular Agriculture, have won funding for a project that aims to optimise the scalability of hollow-fibre bioreactors.

The European Commission says Italy breached EU scrutiny by passing its ban on cell-based meat before the Commission assessed it.

Steakholder Foods has announced its first private-sector commercialisation deal as it has signed an MOU with Wyler Farm.

Czech biotech Mewery has been awarded a grant of around €200,000k by the Czech government through the CzechInvest Technological Incubator.

NGO ProVeg International has stated that the EU is "primed to become a new Silicon Valley” for cell-based meat companies.

The Japanese government plans to make changes and transfer powers to different organisations, to propel the country's food-tech sectors.

House representatives in Arizona have proposed two bills banning cell-based meat and the other focusing on the labelling of alt-meats.

Denmark-based Kost Capital, a newly established VC fund, has announced its first close of €25m for the next wave of food-tech start-ups.

Lallemand has announced the closing of its acquisition of Swiss biotechnology business Evolva from Evolva Holding.

Perfect Day has announced that it has raised a pre-Series E financing round of up to $90 million, and has announced leadership changes.

The Japanese government has awarded $27.7m in funding to plant-based egg producer Umami United and cell-based meat biotech IntegriCulture.

Libre Foods has been awarded a €335,000 public R&D grant by Neotec to develop its low-cost mycelium ingredient for meat alternatives.

The Republicans party of France has introduced a bill in the National Assembly to prohibit the production and marketing of cell-based meat.

Hoxton Farms has announced two senior hires, positioned to accelerate its production timeline and drive conversations with regulators.

COP28: Key takeaways...Cell-based meat company Newform Foods has summarised the major takeaways from this year’s COP28 event in Dubai.

Vital Meat has submitted a novel food pre-market regulatory dossier to the Singapore Food Agency to launch its cell-based chicken.

Dutch fermentation start-up Farmless announced that it has raised €4.8 million to produce functional proteins for the F&B industry.

Singapore-based Meatiply secures $3.75m in seed funding for expansion and commercialisation of cell-based meat.

3D Bio-Tissues and its sister company Kerato, owned by BSF Enterprise, plan to form a JV with continuous cell manufacturing biotech CellRev.