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Canadian firm Phytokana Ingredients has secured C$25M ($17.8M) in equity funding to construct a dry fractionation facility for the production of plant-based proteins. Having already obtained hundreds of millions worth of offtake…
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The Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein and Imperial College London have launched a future food accelerator to help startups reach commercial scale, connecting them with Danone, Mars, Cargill and Kerry. Bezos Earth Fund is extending…
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Israeli food tech startup Plantopia has secured $9M in funding to establish a molecular farming facility to produce casein proteins within sprouted oats. Plantopia, a molecular farming firm growing dairy proteins in oats, has raised $9M…
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The EU has pumped €5.7M into Alganova, a new project that seeks to establish a biorefinery for the production of proteins and functional ingredients from microalgae fed on waste and carbon dioxide. Algae's potential to safeguard the…
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Singapore's National Environment Agency has awarded S$5.3M ($4.1M) to three food waste upcycling projects as part of its Closing the Resource Loop initiative. To tackle its food waste problem and boost its self-sufficiency, the…
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Singaporean agritech startup Rize has closed a $31M Series B investment to aggressively expand sustainable, low-methane rice farming across Southeast Asia. Rize, a Singapore-based startup futureproofing rice production, has secured $31M…
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The EU has invested €5.5M ($6.3M) in the Coco-AI project, which aims to use artificial intelligence to develop a plant cell culture platform to grow sustainable cocoa. As part of its Horizon Europe scheme, the EU is betting on…
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NFX UK, a dedicated network of experts backing the novel foods sector, has secured $650,000 in funding to accelerate regulatory approvals in the UK and expand its work into Europe. Just as the UK government publishes its latest set of…
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Chipotle Mexican Grill's food tech venture fund, Cultivate Next, has made investments in six agrifood tech companies, including regenerative farming company Simpli. Regenerative agriculture has been in sharp focus under the Trump…
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US alternative fat startup Savor has closed a $32M funding round, with participation from AAK, which has signed a deal to develop dairy alternatives and bakery applications with the former's carbon-derived fats. Californian food tech…
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Dutch cultivated meat pioneer Mosa Meat has received an €875,000 ($1M) loan from state-owned Invest International to navigate regulatory processes and launch into countries across the globe. Seven months after raising €15M ($17.6M at…
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Food tech startup Nutrition From Water has agreed to make an equity investment in Portugal's PhycoFerm, formalising a joint R&D collaboration to accelerate microalgae strain generation. New Zealand-Portuguese startup Nutrition From…
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Japan’s government has laid out a draft public-private investment roadmap across 17 sectors for 2040, totalling $2.3T. As part of this, it’s targeting $6.2B in funding for novel food technologies. Japan has taken a big step in its bid…
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Protein Industries Canada has funded a new project to create an AI platform that can make fermentation cheaper and more efficient, and "unlock new value" from agricultural byproducts. The Canadian government has announced its latest…
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US startup Wildtype has kicked off a crowdfunding drive to begin direct-to-consumer sales of its cultivated salmon lox and launch a marine complex supplement for skincare. Wildtype, which has been selling its cultivated salmon in a…
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Dutch food tech startup The Protein Brewery has closed an €18M ($20.5M) extension of its Series B round to expand production of its Fermotein mycoprotein and support its EU launch. Days after securing the first novel food approval for…
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London-based startup Myota, which makes prebiotic fibre blends to enhance gut health, has secured $4.5M in Series A funding to scale its D2C sales and set up a B2B business in Europe and the US. UK gut health supplement brand Myota has…
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British vegan pet food maker Omni has raised £11M ($14.5M) in Series A funding to expand its footprint, enter the US market and launch an Ozempic-style product for dogs. A year after finding success on Dragons' Den, London-based startup…
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Dutch precision fermentation startup Vivici has secured €12.5M ($14.4M) in funding from the European Innovation Council to scale up and expand its footprint for cow-free whey proteins. A year after raising €32.5M in a Series A round,…
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Finnish gas protein firm Solar Foods has secured €77.8M ($89.1M) in grants and loan financing from Business Finland to construct its industrial-scale factory. Shortly after making its US debut, Solar Foods has received a comprehensive…
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The Finnish government has invested €1.8M in local food producer Raisio for a project to create functional fibre ingredients from grain byproducts, with the latter investing a further €2.7M. As Europe seeks to cut its food waste…
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