Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

These female-led future food startups are using technology to supercharge the women's health and wellness category. It's appalling that, even today, women spend 25% more time in poor health compared to men, the result of a cocktail of…
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US food tech startup MycoTechnology has secured self-affirmed GRAS status for Zukora, its precision-fermented sweet protein from honey truffles, and has scaled up to commercial batches. With companies in the US scrambling to reformulate…
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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization is calling on governments to streamline their regulatory frameworks for cultivated proteins and precision-fermented foods. As novel foods like cultivated meat and precision-fermented ingredients…
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Chinese biotech startup Guoke Xinglian has secured ¥100M ($14.6M) in Series A+ funding to scale up its precision-fermented human milk proteins, starting with lactoferrin. Beijing Guoke Xinglian Technology Co, a company working on…
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Superbrewed Food has begun commercial production of its fermented postbiotic protein at a facility owned by Döhler, whose venture arm has made a fresh investment in the startup. German manufacturing giant Döhler Group has made a…
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Healthier Comforts has rolled out an animal-free egg white protein powder in the US, which features The Every Company's precision-fermented OvoPro ingredient, the company has confirmed to Green Queen. Armed with the third-largest…
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Dutch food tech startup Vivici has launched its animal-free lactoferrin protein under the Vivitein brand, after self-determining its GRAS status in the US. Precision fermentation firm Vivici is aiming to expand access to functional and…
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French precision fermentation startup Verley has raised €32M ($37.6M) in Series A funding to scale up and commercialise its cow-free, functional whey proteins in the US this year. Months after receiving approval from the US Food and…
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Indian firm PreferCo has teamed up with German biotech giant Glatt to launch a precision fermentation scale-up centre in Hyderabad, weeks after India's landmark trade deal with the EU. It was nearly a month ago that India signed its…
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Copenhagen-based Reduced, which upcycles food processing waste into savoury flavour enhancers, has raised €4M ($4.7M) to expand production to industrial levels. Danish startup Reduced has closed a Series A funding round to bring its…
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The investment downturn in alternative proteins continued in 2025, falling by 20% and totalling under $1B for the first time since 2018. The gap between well-capitalised and struggling startups is set to continue this year. Investors'…
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Mycoprotein can deliver significant nutritional benefits with high protein digestibility and mineral accessibility; however, its true potential depends on the fungal strain and how it's cultivated. Protein from fungi is as complete and…
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Fermentation startup MicroHarvest has received a €5.5M ($6.5M) grant from the German government to open an industrial-scale microbial protein plant in Leuna. To take its waste-derived microbial proteins to the next level, Hamburg-based…
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Israeli food tech startup Amai Proteins has secured a 'no questions' letter from the US FDA, clearing the way for the market entry of its sweet protein in food and beverage applications. As sugar reduction reaches new heights in the US,…
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The US Food and Drug Administration has relaxed rules that restrict companies from labelling their food products as free from synthetic dyes, and approved a new beetroot-derived natural red colour. With food dyes firmly in focus in…
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German agrifood giant Cremer Group has launched FermBase, a "competence centre and one-stop shop" for fermentation feedstock and media formulations to address key biotech challenges. Cremer Group is hoping to usher in the next era of…
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Two food tech startups are working together to use mycoprotein and 3D printing to create scalable whole-cut cultivated seafood products. Mycelium could be the key to unlocking large-scale production of cultivated fish fillets, at least…
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Are protein shots the next big functional beverage trend? Dutch fermentation firm Vivici thinks so, positioning its animal-free whey ingredient as the ideal base for these products. Since the start of the pandemic, the number of…
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Planetary's new strategic partnership in India could take its decentralized fermentation model global, opening the door to cheaper blended meat and nutritionally superior dairy alternatives.​ Switzerland-based Planetary has signed a…
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Most of our nutrition toolkit was never designed around female biology, says New York startup Helaina, which ferments microbes to create breast milk proteins for a new dawn for women's wellness. Americans can now buy vegan protein…
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Can fungi help humans live better and longer? Dutch mycoprotein startup The Protein Brewery is hoping to do just that by promoting multiple pathways of healthy ageing. In Western Europe, people born in 2024 are expected to live 17 years…
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