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Welcome to the final edition of Green Queen’s #COP30 Digest. Here, our editorial team curates the must-reads, the must-bookmarks and the must-knows from around the web to help you ‘skim the overwhelm’. Catch up: VOLUME 1 |…
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Israeli food tech startup SuperMeat has secured $3.5M in an ongoing funding round to support the commercialisation of its cultivated meat in Europe. A year after announcing it could produce cultivated meat at price parity with…
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Danish precision fermentation startup Chromologics has secured €7M ($8M) in funding to commercialise its natural food-grade alternative to synthetic red dye. Amid the rush to phase out synthetic dyes from food products, one startup has…
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Welcome to #COP30. In our Green Queen COP30 Digest, our editorial team curates the must-reads, the must-bookmarks and the must-knows from around the web to help you ‘skim the overwhelm’. Catch up: VOLUME 1 | VOLUME 2 Headlines…
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Welcome to Volume 2 of Green Queen’s #COP30 Digest. Here, our editorial team curates the must-reads, the must-bookmarks and the must-knows from around the interwebs to help you ‘skim the overwhelm’. Catch up: VOLUME 1 Headlines You…
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Eco materials firm Qorium has raised €22M ($25M) in Series A funding from private investors and the Dutch government to commercialise its lab-grown leather. Qorium, a startup producing leather from cultured cow cells, has taken a major…
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Welcome to #COP30 – watch the opening ceremony here. In our Green Queen COP30 Digest, our editorial team curates the must-reads, the must-bookmarks and the must-knows from around the web to help you ‘skim the overwhelm’. Headlines You…
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French startup Green Spot Technologies has raised €5M ($5.8M) to expand production of its waste-derived fermented ingredients, including cocoa alternatives under new brand Milatea. As the hunt for cocoa alternatives reaches a fever…
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Californian food tech startup The Every Company has raised $55M in Series D funding to expand production of its precision-fermented egg proteins, following a nationwide rollout at Walmart. The Every Company is going all out to fill the…
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US food tech startup Atlantic Fish Co has raised $1.2M in new funding, which it will use to optimise its cultivated seafood fillets, scope out partnerships, and prepare regulatory filings. In its bid to "actually move the needle" in the…
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Australian eco materials firm Uluu has raised A$16M ($10.5M) to build a demo facility and scale up its technology to turn seaweed into bioplastics. Aiming to replace plastic in everything from clothes and packaging to car interiors and…
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Protein transition platform Food System Innovations has received a $2M grant from the Bezos Earth Fund to create an open-source AI model for sustainable food products with Stanford University. The Bezos Earth Fund is doubling down on…
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Following a dismal first half of 2025, funding for alternative protein startups bounced back in Q3 as investors rallied around differentiated tech and financial credibility. Plant-based and fermentation-derived proteins enjoyed a…
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French precision fermentation startup Nutropy has raised €7M ($8.1M) to scale up its casein proteins, targeting a launch of its "cheeseable milk" powder in 2027. The demand for dairy is rising sharply just as the number of farmers is…
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Danish food tech startup Matr Foods has raised €20M ($23M) in Series A funding for its mycelium meat alternatives, adding to the €20M debt funding it received from the EU in 2024. Copenhagen-based Matr Foods has secured fresh funding to…
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US plant-based meat startup Tender Food has now turned into a larger tech company, Lasso, which has raised $6.5M to create a suite of clean-label ingredients with its fibre-spinning technology. Who knew that cotton candy could be the…
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US artisan vegan cheesemaker Climax Foods has raised $6.5M, rebranded to Bettani Farms, and hired a new CEO in a major overhaul for the business. Climax Foods is shaking things up with a new name, a new CEO, and a new funding round for…
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Singaporean startup ImpacFat has secured fresh financing to fuel its Asian commercialisation plans for cultivated omega-3 fish fat. ImpacFat, a Singapore-based biotech firm producing fish fats from cell cultures, has expanded into Japan…
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Turkish food tech startup Itz Nutz, known for its cashew yoghurts and cheeses, has bagged $535,000 in investment to develop new products and expand distribution. Looking to take its line of plant-based dairy alternatives global,…
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Indonesian plant-based startup Arummi has raised $2M in seed funding to expand the distribution of its cashew milk line nationally and across Southeast Asia. Arummi, a Jakarta-based producer of cashew milk, has secured $2M in financing…
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Gates Foundation and Novo Nordisk Foundation have extended the Acetate Consortium initiative by another two years with a $25.6M investment to turn CO2 into proteins. It was in June 2023 that Bill Gates's philanthropic foundation teamed…
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