NEW TECH FOODS

US-based cell ag company BlueNalu has raised $33.5 million from new and existing investors in a Series B financing round.

Climate tech venture capital firm At One Ventures has announced the close of a $375 million fund for start-ups focusing on planetary health.

Upside Foods has announced plans to build its first large-scale cell-based meat production plant, named Rubicon, in Glenview, Illinois, US.

Animal-free dairy start-up New Culture has announced the achievement of a new milestone in the scale-up of its fermentation manufacturing.

Jellatech has announced a $3.5 million oversubscribed seed round to enable the scale-up of its cutting-edge protein manufacturing platform.

Omeat has launched Plenty, an “ethical replacement for foetal bovine serum (FBS) that is equally effective but for a fraction of the cost”.

Dyadic International has announced that its animal-free bovine serum albumin is structurally identical to commercial animal albumin.

Upside Foods bolsters executive team as it enters its next phase of growth, with new chief scientific officer and chief legal officer.