NEW TECH FOODS

Pascual Innoventures has invested in Mylkcubator and welcomed the next cohort including Cultzyme, California Cultured and Onego Bio.

Helaina has raised $45 million in a Series B funding round led by investment firm Avidity Partners.

Cultured meat firm Believer Meats has signed a strategic partnership agreement with GEA.

US animal-free egg firm The Every Company has been granted a foundational patent for its precision-fermented ovalbumin.

Meatable has been awarded €7.6 million under the Netherlands Enterprise Agency’s (RVO) ‘Innovation Credit’ programme.

Belgian biotech incubator Biotipe has announced its fifth cohort of start-ups.

The APAC Society for Cellular Agriculture has welcomed Meatable as its newest member.  

French precision-fermented protein start-up Standing Ovation has raised €3.75 million in a Series A+ funding round.

Steakholder Foods has opened a full-scale Demonstration Center, enabling customers to experience its entire production process firsthand.

The ‘world’s first and only’ alt-seafood association, Future Ocean Foods (FOF), has welcomed 17 new members to its global organisation.  

Earth First Food Ventures (EFFV) has launched a new $10 million Series A funding round via tokenisation.

Sweidsh precision fermentation firm Melt&Marble has reached a milestone by scaling its fat fermentation process to over 10,000 litres.

German producer of animal-free cheese products, Formo, has raised $61 million in a Series B funding round.

An Illinois House Representative has introduced a bill to make the sale, manufacture or distribution of cultivated meat a Class C felony.

The Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein at the National University of Singapore has launched with a $30m grant from the Bezos Earth Fund.

Denmark-based biotech start-up Meat Tomorrow has raised DKK 4.1 million (approx. $607,200) to accelerate the development of cultivated meat.

Zydus Lifesciences has acquired a 50% stake in Sterling Biotech from Perfect Day, entering into a 50:50 JV with the animal-free dairy firm.

The UK government will invest £15m in an innovation hub to accelerate the commercialisation of plant-based, cultivated and fermented foods.

Swiss alt-protein producer NUOS has announced a strategic partnership with Abu Dhabi Growth Fund to establish the ‘world’s most advanced’...

A new study by Believer Meats and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem demonstrates how cell-based meat can be produced cost-effectively.