NEW TECH FOODS

German start-up Pacifico Biolabs has raised $3.3m in pre-seed funding for alt-seafood. The funding will be used to advance its tech.

GEA is investing €18 million in a technology centre for alternative proteins to pilot cell-based, plant-based foods and microbial foods.

Meiji has announced it is making its second investment in cell-based cocoa start-up California Cultured, following its original investment.

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

A new EU-funded think-tank, FEASTS (Fostering European Cellular Agriculture for Sustainable Transition Solution), launched last week.

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

Quest Meat and the University of Birmingham (UoB), have joined forces on a new R&D partnership to scale-up cell-based meat production.

Israeli start-up Mediterranean Food Lab has raised $17m in a Series A funding round to scale-up its novel solid-state fermentation tech.