NEW TECH FOODS

Upside Foods recently announced a significant adjustment to its expansion strategy, pausing construction of its new Illinois plant.

Innovate UK has awarded around £500,000 in grant funding to three cell-based meat companies based in the North-East of England.

Singapore-based bean-less coffee company Prefer has raised $2m in a seed funding round, which it will use to “secure global coffee supply".

70/30 Food Tech has closed its seed-extension round of fundraising and will use the funds to launch a new research lab to develop its fungi.

The UK Government’s national funding agency investing in science and research, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), has funded the Microbial F

Miruku has raised $5m in pre-Series funding to support its development of dairy proteins and fats using molecular farming and oilseed crops.

Aleph Farms has partnered with BBGI and Fermbox Bio on a new manufacturing facility in Thailand, to increase Southeast Asian cell-ag.

South Korean cell-based meat start-up Simple Planet has raised $6m in pre-Series A funding to speed up R&D of its cultured meat powder.