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3 Mins Read Food colorant biotech startup Phytolon has closed a $14.5 million Series A funding round, led by DSM Venturing with participation from Cibus Fund, The Trendlines Agrifood Fund, existing investors, and an in-kind investment by way of Foundry services from Ginkgo Bioworks. Israel-based Phytolon says its new round of funding, which builds on the $4.1 million […]
3 Mins Read UK-based tempeh manufacturer Better Nature is expanding its product range to include alternative seafood. Using traditional tempeh fermentation techniques with food industry by-products, the company claims it can replace conventional fish. To develop the product, Better Nature has been awarded a £350k grant from Innovate U.K. Better Nature says that its fish analogue will be […]
3 Mins Read Geneva-based food tech Planetary has announced a $8.1 million in a seed financing round. Astanor Ventures led the investment, with XAnge, Blue Horizon, Nucleus Capital and more participating. The startup is planning to use the money raised to complete the design and construction of a flagship site in Switzerland to build out transplantable industrial-scale microbial […]
3 Mins Read Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has announced a plant-based breakthrough. A team of its scientists has successfully developed a protein and antioxidant-rich emulsifier. It is free from traditional eggs and dairy. Preliminary findings show it could replace animal products in relevant food products. Mayonnaise and whipped cream were given as examples. The NTU emulsifier […]
5 Mins Read The plant-based and cultivated meat sectors are widely recognised in the alternative protein world, but there’s now a third category emerging – fermentation. Food scientists and companies are now innovating new ways to apply fermentation technology to create novel sustainable proteins as well as to enable the further development of both plant-based and cultivated meat […]
3 Mins Read Cocoa-free fermented chocolate maker QOA has raised $6 million in seed funding to build out a pilot production facility.
4 Mins Read San Francisco, California-based ingredient company Clara Foods has rebranded as The EVERY Company and unveiled its latest product, an animal-free egg protein food producers can use to boost the nutritional value of their own products. Dubbed EVERY ClearEgg, the product is the first in what EVERY Company says will be “a portfolio of egg proteins” […]
4 Mins Read Dairy identical startup Perfect Day is moving closer to going public, announcing it has raised $350 million in a late-stage funding round, bringing its total funding to more than $750 million.
4 Mins Read Stockeld Dreamery, the Swedish food tech behind the fermented pea and fava bean-based Stockeld Chunk, has just raised €16.5 million (US$20 million) in what it says is the largest-ever Series A round secured by a plant-based startup in Europe. Proceeds from the round will go towards expanding its team, scaling up and rolling out new […]
4 Mins Read General Mills is gearing up to enter the precision fermentation alt-protein industry, signalling the move with a new brand, Renegade Creamery. While the food giant has not confirmed the move, Renegade describes its product as ”creating milk proteins without the milk”, suggesting that the animal-free dairy is on the cards—and the brand’s first product appears […]
3 Mins Read Breast milk appears to be the next frontier in the world of biotech, with a new player joining the emerging sector focused on disrupting infant nutrition. Based in New York, startup Helaina is using precision fermentation to recreate “nature-equivalent” breast milk components with immunity-building potential. While some companies are using cellular agriculture to develop next-gen […]
4 Mins Read Researchers in Denmark will soon kickstart a six-year project to create an entirely new category of climate-friendly plant-based proteins using fermentation technology. Called Proferment, the project is being backed by the Novo Nordisk Foundation and will bring scientists from the University of Copenhagen, Technical University of Denmark and Utrecht University in the Netherlands together. Proferment […]
5 Mins Read Change Foods, the animal-free dairy startup based between the U.S. and Australia, has just announced the closing of its US$2.1 million seed funding round. The capital will be used to fuel its expansion in the San Francisco Bay Area and advance its R&D, with the view to launch real, cow-free cheese made using precision fermentation […]
3 Mins Read Food tech The Protein Brewery uses microbial fermentation to create alternative protein ingredients and has just completed the construction of its pilot plant in Breda, Netherlands and delivered its first food grade production samples of its protein-rich product Fermotein. Following its €22 million (US$26 million) Series A round in December last year, Dutch fermentation startup […]
4 Mins Read The Better Meat Co. has finished building its huge fermentation plant that will churn out “thousands of pounds” of its new superfood mycoprotein ingredient called Rhiza. The new facility will also serve as its R&D and corporate headquarters, as the B2B sustainable ingredients startup begins to offer its animal-free protein to food businesses developing alternative […]
4 Mins Read San Francisco food tech New Culture is gearing up to launch its animal-free mozzarella cheese in late 2023 with partnering pizzerias. In an interview, co-founder Matt Gibson revealed that the company has made “numerous breakthroughs” in recent months to produce large quantities of casein protein using precision fermentation, which will enable it to create a […]
3 Mins Read Biodesign startup Geltor has unveiled PrimaColl, which the company claims is the world’s first real vegan collagen for the food and beverage industry, an exact match for the bioactive amino acid core of Type 21 collagen. Founded by Alexander Lorestani and Nick Ouzounov in 2015, the San Leandro, California-based Geltor has created a computational biology platform that […]
4 Mins Read Imagindairy is the latest to join the animal-free dairy movement, tapping into precision fermentation technology to create “true milk proteins that are indistinguishable from the real thing”. Based out of Tel Aviv, the food tech says through “milking new technology”, it has recreated whey and casein without the cow, and these animal-free proteins can be […]
3 Mins Read Magellan Life Sciences has completed its seed funding round led by Roquette Ventures, the investment arm of the French plant-based ingredient giant. The capital will be used to scale the British startup’s plant protein sweeteners produced using fermentation, and will accelerate its go-to-market plans. British biotech Magellan has bagged seed investment led by the French […]
9 Mins Read A new Alternative Proteins Summit hosted by Future Food-Tech is set to take place virtually on June 22-23 this year, showcasing some of the most innovative solutions to solve our unsustainable global food system. The organisers at Rethink Events have “scoured the globe” in search of the trailblazers across the plant-based, fermentation and cell-based sectors, […]
3 Mins Read Chicago-based food tech Aqua Cultured Foods is launching what it claims is the world’s first whole-muscle cut seafood analogue developed using microbial fermentation. Looking to become a first mover in the category, much like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods has done in the plant-based space, Aqua Cultured is set on disrupting aquaculture by growing the […]