NEW TECH FOODS

Tetra Pak and Danish biotech company Swan Neck Bio have joined forces to tackle one of the biggest challenges in producing fermentation-based foods at scale – preparing the seed culture.

The CRAFT Consortium has begun designing what it says will be the world’s first cultivated meat farm, aiming to integrate the technology directly into working farms.

German start-up Myriameat is collaborating with two undisclosed industry partners to develop a hybrid sausage combining conventional and cell-cultured meat, without plant-based additives.

The agri-food-tech sector has seen a steep decline in investment, with funding down 73% from its 2021 peak, according to 2024 FoodTech 500.

Brevel, a climate food-tech company specialising in microalgae protein, has successfully expanded its seed funding round to a total of $25m.

South Korea is launching its first cultivated meat research centre with ₩14.5B ($10M) public funding to strengthen its food tech leadership.