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‘Shark Tank’ Deal-Winning Pet Food Brand Wild Earth Debuts Cultivated Dog Food
Wild Earth, the Bay Area pet food company focused on alternative protein sources, has developed a cultivated chicken broth topper aimed at making the category more sustainable.
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Nearly Every Cultivated Food Startup In Asia Just Signed A Historic Nomenclature Agreement
Cellular agriculture producers across the APAC region have come to a consensus: the preferred English-language term for the category is "cultivated."
The cultivated meat sector has gone through a number of naming conventions including!-->!-->!-->…
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Forsea Snags $5.2 Million In Seed Funding for Cultivated Eel Meat
Israel-based Forsea Foods has closed a $5.2 million Seed funding round led by Target Global with backing from The Kitchen FoodTech Hub, PeakBridge VC, Zora Ventures, FoodHack, and Milk & Honey Ventures.
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The Dutch Government Invests €60M In Cellular Agriculture
The cellular agriculture industry receives a big boost with The Netherlands' €60 million investment and additional €25 million in financing.
The Dutch government's investment is now the largest government grant in the world into the!-->!-->!-->…
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US, EU & APAC Cultivated Food Associations Announce Major Global Alliance To Boost Industry
For the first time, three leading cultivated food industry associations are hosting a first-of-its-kind meeting this week in Singapore to formalize the launch of a global alliance to advance cultivated foods on the global stage.
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Hoxton Farms Closes $22 Million Series A for Cultivated Animal Fat
U.K.-based Hoxton Farms says it has closed a $22 million Series A funding round for its novel cultivated animal fat. The funding follows a $3.6 million Seed round last year.
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Umami Meats Expands Its Cultivated Seafood Offerings With Fish Cakes and Filets
Leading cultivated meat producer Umami Meats will debut its lab-grown fish cakes and filets, following the debut of its fish ball laksa in August.
During Agri-Food Week 2022 held in Singapore later this month, Umami Meats says its!-->!-->!-->…
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New Partnership Will Grow Micro Meat’s Cultivated Meat In Outer Space
Heading to outer space anytime soon? You may be dining on cultivated meat, thanks to a new partnership between alternative protein pioneer, Mexico's Micro Meat, and U.S.-based Orbital Assembly, developer of space-based business parks with!-->…
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Umami Meats Patents Novel Single-Cell Tech to Bring Down Cultivated Seafood Costs
Singapore-based Umami Meats has filed a patent for a novel single-stem cell technology that it says can build both muscle and fat in cultivated seafood.
The new patent for mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) lines from fish is aimed at helping!-->!-->!-->…
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BlueNalu Demonstrates Scalability and 75% Profit Margin for Cultivated Seafood
Cultivated seafood company BlueNalu says it has 'cracked the code' to significant profitability with 75 percent gross margins achieved through breakthrough technology.
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Is France About to Become the World Leader In Cultivated Meat?
Paris-based cultivated meat company Gourmey has announced the closing of an oversubscribed €48 million Series A funding round to accelerate its culinary-grade sustainable meat and foie gras and open the largest cultivated meat hub in!-->…
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Vow Opens One of the Largest Cultivated Meat Factories In the World Ahead of Anticipated Regulatory Approval
Australian cultivated meat company Vow has unveiled Factory 1, its NSW-based factory capable of producing 30 tons of cultured meat per year.
Coinciding with the opening of Factory 1 in Alexandria in Sydney, Vow says it has started!-->!-->!-->…
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Singapore’s Meatiply Debuts Asia’s First Cultivated Smoked Duck Breast
Singapore-based cultivated meat startup Meatiply, has revealed three structured meat prototypes as proof of concept, including the first smoked duck breast meat in Asia.
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New Partnership Will Bring the First Cultivated Wagyu Beef to Europe
A collaboration between U.S.-based cultivated meat company Orbillion Bio and Luiten Food, a European leader in premium meat, will bring cell-based wagyu beef to Europe, pending regulatory approval.
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South Korean Cultivated Meat Startup TissenBioFarm Raises $1.6 Million In Pre-Series A
Preparing to disrupt South Korea's protein market, TissenBioFarm has closed a 2.2 billion KRW (approx. 1.6million USD) pre-Series A funding round.
TissenBioFarm says the new funding was led by impact investing company, Envisioning!-->!-->!-->…
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Mark Cuban and Emily Ratajkowski Back Prolific Machines’ $42 Million Raise to Scale (Cheap) Cultivated Meat
Emerging from stealth mode, the celebrity-backed Prolific Machines is about to bring down the price of cultivated meat significantly.
Profilic Machines' $42 million was raised a year ago and comes from a long list of seed and an!-->!-->!-->…
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Biden’s Biotech Moonshot Lights the Way for Regulatory Approval of Cultivated Meat
Biotech is a priority for the Biden Administration, as the President signed an executive order earlier this week implementing support for the emergent category. Funding amounts were not disclosed but Biden says biotech holds the potential!-->…
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Forsea Foods Is Taking On the ‘Tremendous’ Eel Market With Novel Cell-Cultured Tech
Moving cell-cultured seafood "closer to nature," Israeli newcomer Forsea Foods says it's turning its attention to a bottleneck in the seafood industry by focusing on eel meat.
Ashdod, Israel-based Forsea Foods says its patented organoid!-->!-->!-->…
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With Its $10 Million Series A, Biobetter Brings Cultivated Meat Growth Media Down From $500,000 Per Gram to $1
Israel-based cultivated meat startup Biobetter says it has closed a $10 million Series A funding round led by Jerusalem Venture Partners and additional investment from Milk and Honey Ventures, and the Israeli Innovation Authority.
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Umami Meats Debuts the World’s First Cultivated Fish Ball
Singapore-based Umami Meats has debuted what it says is the world’s first cultivated fish ball laksa at a private event in Singapore this week.
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Ivy Farm Opens the Largest Cultivated Meat Factory in Europe
The first cultivated meat pilot plant of its kind in the U.K. is now open. Ivy Farm says its new 18,000-square-foot Oxford cultivated meat plant can produce nearly three tons of cultivated meat per year.
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