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| 02.05.2024 | 10 startups achieving market success, and shaping our future food system (Sponsored) | - |
| 08.03.2024 | The Cultured Meat Market: Global and Regional Analysis, 2024-2033 - Global Market Projected to Soar to $3.81 Billion by 2033, Fueled by Sustainable Advantages and Growing Consumer Demand | - |
| 22.04.2022 | Cultivated Meat Maker Upside Foods Lands $400 Million Series C and $1 Billion Valuation | 4 Mins Read
California-based cultivated meat company Upside Foods has announced $400 million in a Series C funding round, bringing its total funding to more than $600 million and its valuation to more than $1 billion—an industry first.
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| 21.04.2022 | ‘Historic inflection point’ for cultivated meat: UPSIDE Foods closes $400m series C round to support commercial-scale plant with production capacity of tens of millions of pounds | Co-founded by cardiologist Dr Uma Valeti in 2015, UPSIDE Foods recently opened an innovation center and pilot facility in Emeryville, CA, which can produce 50,000lbs of finished product a year, with a future capacity of over 400,000/lbs/yea... |
| 21.04.2022 | Lab-Grown Meat Producer Upside Foods Raises $400 Million | Upside Foods has privately raised $400 million from investors including the Abu Dhabi Growth Fund and Scottish fund manager Baillie Gifford, company officials said, a vote of confidence that Upside’s lab-grown meat can gain regulatory appro... |
| 17.12.2021 | Memphis Housing Authority Announces $70 Million Investment To Preserve 472 Units of Affordable Housing | "We recognized that something had to be done to improve the quality of life for our residents," said Dexter Washington, Memphis Housing Authority CEO. "We partnered with BGC Advantage for their deep expertise in the Rental As... |
| 09.12.2021 | MeaTech 3D : World's largest lab-grown steak unveiled by Israeli firm | The largest lab-grown steak yet produced has been unveiled by the Israeli company MeaTech 3D, weighing in at nearly 4oz (110 grams).
The steak is composed of real muscle and fat cells, derived from tissue samples taken from a cow. Living bo... |
| 27.09.2021 | In-vitro meat as a climate saver? 7 questions & answers about cultivated meat | Now everyone is talking about it again, but only in a figurative sense: in-vitro meat, also known colloquially as laboratory meat. The reason: The actor Leonardo DiCaprio, known at least for many from the film “Titanic”, has invested in two... |
| 12.05.2021 | Memphis Meats becomes UPSIDE Foods, plans to sell alt-chicken as first product this year | Memphis Meats, one of the pioneers of cell-cultured meat, has re-branded to UPSIDE Foods and announced its intention to sell chicken as its first product.
The US company expects to be able to sell its UPSIDE chicken to consumers this year, ... |
| 04.05.2021 | Barclays : The future of food | The problem of how to feed a growing global population is far from new. But the pandemic has served to highlight challenges around food sustainability, food security and food poverty. The companies supported by Barclays' Unreasonable Impact... |
| 04.05.2021 | BARCLAYS PLC
Barclays : The future of food | The problem of how to feed a growing global population is far from new. But the pandemic has served to highlight challenges around food sustainability, food security and food poverty. The companies supported by Barclays' Unreasonable Impact... |
| 31.03.2021 | Deep Tech: 30,000 Startups Can’t Be Wrong (And Some Will Change Our Lives) | Like other new technologies developed over the decades, there can be two sides to the Deep Tech ... [+] coin: They can have both huge positive impacts on the way we live or work—resulting, perhaps, in massive reductions in greenhouse gasses... |
| 16.03.2021 | Swiss cellular meat startup Mirai Foods raises $4.5m with second seed close | Mirai Foods — which claims to be Switzerland’s “first and to date only cultivated meat startup” — has raised $2.2 million in a second close of its seed round.
The second tranche followed an earlier seed capital injection that closed in Janu... |
| 25.02.2021 | 2020’s agrifoodtech investment story speaks of resilience, maturity and big bets on what comes next | Zero percent of us would choose to go through another year like 2020 (2021 isn’t exactly spectacular yet, either). But for the agrifoodtech sector, we pen 2020 as the year investors got serious. We could thank the pandemic… but then, why wo... |
| 25.02.2021 | 2020’s agrifoodtech investment story speaks of resilience, maturity & big bets on what comes next | Zero percent of us would choose to go through another year like 2020 (2021 isn’t exactly spectacular yet, either). But for the agrifoodtech sector, we pen 2020 as the year investors got serious.
We could thank the Covid-19 pandemic… but the... |
| 16.02.2021 | Brief: ‘All rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef,’ says Bill Gates | Bill Gates has suggested that developed nations should completely replace their consumption of cattle-derived beef with “synthetic” alternatives.
“For Africa [and] poor countries, we’ll have to use animal genetics to dramatically raise the ... |
| 11.02.2021 | OPINION: Bill & Melinda Gates can create the world’s biggest agrifoodtech testbed – but they need to win over farmers first | Last month, US land investment magazine The Land Report published research indicating that Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda own the largest stock of farmland in the US.
About 242,000 acres of it in fact, and part of a broad... |
| 11.02.2021 | Gates can create world’s biggest agrifoodtech testbed, but needs to win over farmers first | Last month, US land investment magazine The Land Report published research indicating that Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda own the largest stock of private farmland in the US.
About 242,000 acres of it in fact, and part of... |
| 20.01.2021 | BlueNalu raises $60m, gears up for commercial launch of cell-based seafood this year | BlueNalu, which raised $4.5m in seed funding in 2018 and a $20m series A round in early 2020, has just closed a $60m round* in debt financing that will enable it to move to a facility capable of producing around 500lbs of finished product... |
| 14.01.2021 | Brief: Bill & Melinda Gates revealed as largest private farmland owners in US | Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda have amassed the largest portfolio of private farmland in the US, according to The Land Report.
The Gates’ own an estimated 242,000 acres of farmland as part of a broader 269,000-acre land p... |
| 14.01.2021 | BRIEF: Bill & Melinda Gates revealed as largest private farmland owners in US | Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife have amassed the largest portfolio of private farmland in the US, according to The Land Report.
The Gates’ own an estimated 242,000 acres of farmland as part of a broader 269,000-acre land portfolio... |
| 12.01.2021 | Steve Jurvetson and Maryanna Saenko on their new fund, SPACs and the great tech exodus | Future Ventures — cofounded by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson and Maryanna Saenko, a colleague of Jurvetson at his last firm, DFJ, as well as an investor previously with Airbus Ventures and Khosla Ventures — has closed it... |
| 30.12.2020 | The 20 highest-funded agrifoodtech startups of 2020 | It safe to say that 2020 has been a difficult year for many of us – to say the very least. But as the global Covid-19 pandemic has rumbled on, agrifoodtech startups have continued to attract capital from investors.
They’ve had to work even ... |
| 22.12.2020 | Cultured Protein: A Guide To Every Cell-Based Meat Startup In The World Right Now | 3 1
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The alternative protein market is on fire right now, estimated to be worth approximately $2.2Bn, and cultivated meat is expected to play an important role in the shift from traditional meat products. Experienced sc... |
| 07.12.2020 | If Current Levels Of Meat Production Are Unsustainable, What's The Alternative? | Photo by John Gress /Corbis via Getty Images |
| 04.11.2020 | Pushing for US & Middle East to eat organic, Saudi prince joins Back To The Roots round | KBW Ventures, the early-stage investment firm run by Saudi Arabian prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud, has joined an investment round into Oakland, California’s organic gardening company Back to the Roots.
The round, of undisclose... |
| 21.10.2020 | Meet Arama Kukutai, co-founder and partner at Finistere Ventures | Finistere Ventures invests in startups in the food and agriculture spaces
Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow's products and services. Oh, how times have changed!
While there are more startups ... |
| 16.09.2020 | Cellular Agriculture – forecasting innovation | Cellular Agriculture – forecasting innovation
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This article focuses on anticipated innovation in relation to cell culture for the production of cultured meat products.
Adam Gregory, Partner and Patent Attorney, Mewburn Ellis LLP, ... |
| 14.09.2020 | From Burger King to Saudi prince: Bond founder on why cats & dogs could be cultured meat’s first mass consumers | Providing advertising makeovers and comms tips to a fast food giant used to gnaw at the moral fiber of former brand strategist Rich Kelleman.
“I was a vegan at Burger King,” he explains to AFN.
This was a decade ago, long before the days of... |
| 09.09.2020 | Synthetic Biology Startups Raised $3 Billion In The First Half Of 2020 | (Getty Images/Luis Alvarez) |
| 07.09.2020 | Innovative Food startups raised more in H1 2020 than they did in the whole of 2019 | Startups developing innovative food and ingredients, including alt-proteins, raised more funding in the first half of 2020 than all of 2019, according to AgFunder‘s recent Agrifoodtech Mid-Year Investment Review.
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| 31.08.2020 | Venture Capital: Founders guide to the basics | “As a decade of growth in venture capital investment falters amid uncertain economic conditions, one thing remains constant: VCs will keep searching for companies that do business in a way that’s never been done before.”– CB Insights.... |
| 21.08.2020 | Q&A: ‘Meat The Future’ Documentary Director Liz Marshall On The Revolutionary Promise Of Cell-Based Protein | 10 1
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Award-winning Canadian filmmaker and director Liz Marshall is all about making “character-driven documentaries” and her latest production, which recently streamed at Toronto’s online version of its Hot Docs festiv... |
| 30.07.2020 | Clarification for Earlier Article on Cultivated Bacon and More on Cultivated Meat Market | In an earlier article about Higher Steaks, a leading UK food tech company, we said the company had revealed “the world’s first cultivated bacon and pork belly”. We have since been contacted by Mission Barns, another food technology company,... |
| 22.07.2020 | Hybrid products could drive first wave of cell-based meat launches, predicts Higher Steaks as it unveils pork belly, bacon prototypes | By weight, the pork belly prototypes contain 50% muscle cells grown in a bioreactor (without the use of bovine serum) and 50% plant-based proteins and fats; while the bacon contains 70% muscle cells and 30% plant-based materials.
“We’re alr... |
| 10.07.2020 | As Cultivated Meats Hit The Market, Menus Will Soon Feature ‘Fake’ Fish Grown In Vats | Ever since Robert Malthus published his essay on the Principle of Population, humanity has worried that our population would eventually outstrip our resources. |
| 27.05.2020 | Japanese cell cultured meat co IntegriCulture raises $7.4m, aims to commercialize foie gras in 2021 | The round – backed by Beyond Next Ventures, multinational food company NH Foods, AgFunder and other investors – follows a US$2.7m seed round raised in 2018, and will be used to fund R&D work, build the production facility for foie gras,... |
| 04.04.2020 | Стартапы недели: мясо в пробирке, российский «Uber для копирайтеров» и другие | А также обзор проектов из прошлогодних выпусков.
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Memphis Meats делает настоящее искусственное мясо. Пока Beyond Meat и Impossible Food экспериментируют с ... |
| 02.03.2020 | S2G Ventures chief investment officer: 'We're in the iPod phase of plant protein' | In its annual Agri-Foodtech report, AgFunder found that the 'Innovative Food category' (which is comprised of mostly alternative protein startups), experienced explosive growth in 2019, doubling the funding it received in 2018.
"No d... |
| 26.02.2020 | BlueNalu raises $20m, gears up for small-scale launch of cell-based seafood in late 2021 | The Series A round was led by Stray Dog Capital, CPT Capital, New Crop Capital, and Clear Current Capital, each of which participated in BlueNalu’s $4.5m seed round.
Additional strategic investors include animal nutrition and aquafeed firm ... |
| 26.02.2020 | Cultivated Food Tech Startups Unite To Create Industry Alliance & Lobby For New Regulatory Framework | 0
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A new Alliance for Meat, Poultry & Seafood Innovation comprised of 5 cultivated food tech companies has been established to work with governmental bodies to determine regulation and labelling policies for cell-based produc... |
| 11.02.2020 | Cell-based meat in focus: In conversation with Meatable, Finless Foods, New Age Meats | Despite all the hype, most startups in the space are still working in a laboratory (as opposed to a factory), although several have recently raised more substantial sums (Memphis Meats: $161m, Future Meat Technologies: $14m, Wild Type... |
| 24.01.2020 | Memphis Meats Secures US$161M Series B, Largest Funding Round In Cultivated Meat History Industry | 1
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California-based food tech startup Memphis Meats has just completed a historic US$161 million Series B round of funding, which attracted investment from big institutional names Softbank, Temasek and Norwest Venture Par... |
| 23.01.2020 | Калифорнийский производитель искусственного мяса Memphis Meats привлёк $161 млн от SoftBank, Билла Гейтса и других Статьи редакции... | Инвестиции позволят компании запустить производство мяса «на клеточной основе».
Калифорнийская компания Memphis Meats сообщила о привлечении $161 млн в раунде B от группы инвесторов во главе с SoftBank Group, Norwest, Temasek. Среди других ... |
| 23.01.2020 | Is a whopping $161m Series B enough cash for Memphis Meats? | AFN has been closely tracking the progress of Memphis Meats since its first attempts to grow animal products with cell cultures. There have been a few eye-catching moments, like when Memphis Meats revealed the world’s first cultured meatbal... |
| 23.01.2020 | Memphis Meats raises $161m led by SoftBank, Temasek and Norwest | Premium
Lab-grown meat producer Memphis Meats said on Wednesday it raised $161 million in a funding round led by Japan’s SoftBank Group, Singapore’s wealth fund Temasek Holdings and Norwest Venture Partners.
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| 22.01.2020 | Memphis Meats Raises $161M in Series B Funding | Memphis Meats, a Berkeley, Calif.-based cell-based meat, poultry and seafood company, closed a $161m Series B funding round.
The round was led by SoftBank Group, Norwest and Temasek with participation from Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Thres... |
| 22.01.2020 | Memphis Meats raises $161m to build its cell-based meat platform: 'We have a pretty clear path to bringing prices down to cost parity' | The Series B round – led by SoftBank Group, Norwest and Temasek and supported by Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Threshold Ventures, Cargill, Tyson Foods, Finistere, Future Ventures, Kimbal Musk, Fifty Years, CPT Capital, KBW Ventures and Vulc... |
| 22.01.2020 | Memphis Meats Closes Largest Funding Round in Cell-Based Meat Industry With $161 Million From Branson, Gates et al | Memphis Meats, the leading name in cellular meat, has received investment totalling in excess of $180 million, including this most recent Series B round of $161 million, with participants such as Bill Gates and Richard Branson. The Berkeley... |
| 22.01.2020 | Memphis Meats raised $161 million from SoftBank Group, Norwest and Temasek | Memphis Meats, a developer of technologies to manufacture meat, seafood and poultry from animal cells, has raised $161 million in financing from investors, including Softbank Group, Norwest and Temasek, the investment fund backed by the gov... |
| 22.01.2020 | Memphis Meats Closes Largest Funding Round in Cell-Based Meat Industry With $161 Million From Branson, Gates et al | Branson with Memphis Meats, ©Virgin
Memphis Meats, the leading name in cellular meat, has received investment totalling in excess of $180 million, including this most recent Series B round of $161 million, with participants such as Bill Gat... |
| 22.01.2020 | Memphis Meats Raises $161 Million In Funding, Aims To Bring Cell-Based Products To Consumers | Memphis' Pan-seared chicken with sugar snap peasMemphis Meats |
| 22.01.2020 | Memphis Meats raises $161 million in funding round | BERKELEY, CALIF. — Memphis Meats closed a $161 million Series B funding round, the largest to date for the cell-based meat industry.
Existing investors including Tyson Foods and Cargill participated in the round, which was led by SoftBank G... |
| 22.01.2020 | Top tech startup news for today, Wednesday, January 22, 2020: Goldman Sachs, SoftBank, Jumia, Sysdig, Promethium | Good morning! Below are the top tech startups news for today, Wednesday, January 22, 2020.
African unicorn Jumia looks to services, platforms to halt slide. African e-commerce unicorn Jumia Technologies, which last year became Africa’s fir... |
| 04.11.2019 | Richard Branson: “Plant-Based Meat Will Become the Norm and Animals Will no Longer Need to be Killed For Food” | Last Friday, British plutocrat Richard Branson posted on social media after sampling clean meat products from Memphis Meats. In an article published on his Virgin blog page, as linked below, Branson states; “Meat production has not changed ... |
| 22.10.2019 | The present and future of food tech investment opportunity | Ingrid Fung Contributor
Ingrid Fung is an associate at Finistere Ventures.
There is no bigger industry on our planet than food and agriculture, with a consistent, loyal customer base of 7 billion. In fact, the World Bank estimates that food... |
| 25.09.2019 | Lab-Grown Food To Drive Collapse Of Beef & Dairy Industry By 2030 Says New Report | 1
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A new report conducted by independent think tank RethinkX concludes that the beef and dairy industries are in a “death spiral” and will collapse by 2030, predicting that the bold disruption will be driven by new food t... |
| 05.09.2019 | Tyson Ventures has invested in New Wave Foods, a startup making a plant-based shrimp substitute | Tyson Foods is getting into the seafood business.
Through the company’s venture capital arm, Tyson is investing in New Wave Foods, a San Francisco-based startup that’s making a plant-based shrimp substitute.
The company, founded by marine b... |
| 26.08.2019 | Kentucky Fried Chicken goes beyond chicken in partnership with Beyond Meat | Kentucky Fried Chicken is going beyond chicken with its latest partnership.
As other chicken chains vie for chicken sandwich dominance, KFC is doing its bit for the planet and taking its first fledgling steps to move beyond the chicken coop... |
| 23.07.2019 | Clean Meat Startups: 10 Lab-Grown Meat Producers to Watch | 162 shares
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| 13.06.2019 | Tyson Foods launches its take on alternative proteins with new ‘Raised & Rooted’ brand | Earlier today, Tyson Foods announced the launch of its first foray into the meat replacement market with the unveiling of its Raised & Rooted brand.
While the company’s plant-based nuggets present a direct challenge to companies like Be... |
| 15.02.2019 | Steve Jurvetson tells all about his new $200 million fund, his new partner, his new shopping list, and more | Steve Jurvetson is staging a comeback, disclosing today that his new San Francisco-based, early-stage venture firm Future Ventures, has raised $200 million for its debut fund.
“It’s good to be back in the saddle again,” says Jurvetson, whos... |
| 11.12.2018 | JUST strikes deal in Japan to bring cell-cultured Wagyu beef to market | Under the deal, JUST will develop cultured Wagyu beef from Toriyama cell lines, and Awano (Toriyama's export agent with clients around the globe) will market and sell the meat.
While Wagyu beef is known for its high levels of intra-muscular... |
| 04.12.2018 | Заменители мяса, питательные порошки и вода в шариках: сколько стоит собрать себе ужин будущего Статьи редакции... | Подборка стартапов из сферы фудтеха.
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| 01.11.2018 | Agrifood – The $8 Trillion Industry That’s Worth Your Salt | Cannabis-infused drinks. Burgers grown in laboratories. Entire meals in bottles. Consumers, retailers and farmers alike are hungry for the next generation of food, and investors are beginning to acquire the taste, too. Early-stage investmen... |
| 01.11.2018 | Agrifood — the $8 trillion industry that’s worth your salt | Esther Delignat-Lavaud Rodriguez Contributor
Esther Delignat-Lavaud Rodriguez is an investor at Oxford Capital, a seed and Series A investor in the U.K.
Cannabis-infused drinks. Burgers grown in laboratories. Entire meals in bottles. Consum... |
| 13.09.2018 | JUST gears up for late 2018 cell-based meat launch, but says more meaningful quantities are 2-3 years out | The products - made from cells grown outside an animal in a plant-based growth medium - will debut in a yet-to-be-announced overseas market owing to the lack of regulatory clarity over selling cell-based meat in the US right now, said Tet... |
| 01.08.2018 | Clean meat: How do US consumers feel about cell cultured meat? | While early research on consumers’ reactions to clean meat has been mixed, it has generally focused on understanding ‘baseline’ attitudes — “asking people who know little about it whether they’d be willing to eat it,” said Faunalytics - ... |
| 15.06.2018 | FDA announces public meeting on cultured meat, says it can be regulated under existing frameworks | The announcement also made it clear that regulating cultured meat – which involves producing meat from growing animal cells outside an animal – falls squarely within the FDA's remit, despite calls for USDA to create new regulations governi... |
| 18.05.2018 | Ill considered’ cattlemen’s petition ‘would cause chaos’ in the marketplace,’ claims North American Meat Institute | While cattle farmers are concerned about how cultured meat – which is produced from animal cells but does not involve raising or slaughtering animals - might impact the meat industry as we know it, leading meat processors see it as an oppor... |
| 17.05.2018 | Clean meat: ‘Traditional animal agriculture has reached capacity,’ says Future Meat Technologies | Speaking to FoodNavigator-USA after raising $2.2m in a seed funding round co-led by Tyson Ventures - the venture arm of meat giant Tyson Foods – FMT founder Professor Yaakov Nahmias said: “We can get the price down probably in about 6-8 m... |
| 02.05.2018 | Approving cattlemen’s petition would have a “chilling” effect on food innovation, says Memphis Meats | While no cultured meat products are on the market yet, a handful of players from Mosameat in the Netherlands, Future Meat Technologies and SuperMeat in Israel, Memphis Meats, Finless Foods and Just Inc in the US, and Integricultu... |
| 02.05.2018 | Tyson Foods investment arm backs another lab-grown meat manufacturer | The venture investment arm of massive meat manufacturer Tyson Foods is continuing its push into potential alternative methods of poultry production with a new investment in the Israeli startup Future Meat Technologies.
The backer of compani... |
| 02.05.2018 | Memphis Meats: ‘What’s common in Silicon Valley is that you move fast and break things, but that's an awful way to approach making food’ | Speaking to FoodNavigator-USA after filing comments with the USDA about clean meat labeling this week, Memphis Meats CEO and co-founder Uma Valeti MD stressed: “We don’t want to rush, just to be first to market, we want to introduce pro... |
| 28.03.2018 | Tyson Ventures Managing Director Dives into Strategy at Future Food Tech Conference | Tyson Ventures has made some attention-getting investments in the 15 months since it came onto the scene with $150 million to deploy in December 2016.
The company has been tight-lipped on what might come next, largely refraining from speaki... |
| 14.03.2018 | Nestlé Backs New European AgriFood Tech VC Five Seasons Ventures, Launching with €60m Fund | Five Seasons Ventures, a new European VC focusing on agrifood tech investments has launched its first fund, announcing a first close on €60 million ($74.3m). Backers include Nestlé, the European Investment Fund, Fondo Italiano d’Investiment... |
| 22.02.2018 | Lab-grown meat: It’s about to be what’s for dinner | Originally Published by:
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| 07.02.2018 | DEADLINE APPROACHING: Cast Your Vote in the AgFunder Innovation Awards | ***VOTING CLOSED***
It’s that time of year again to recognize the innovators and entrepreneurs driving the agrifood tech sector forward with the AgFunder Innovation Awards. These are peer-selected awards based on votes placed by you, our 45... |
| 29.01.2018 | Tyson spreads its protein bets with minority stake in cultured meat start-up Memphis Meats | In a statement announcing the investment (of an undisclosed sum) in Memphis Meats, Tyson Foods’ EVP corporate strategy Justin Whitmore said the move would “broaden our exposure to innovative, new ways of producing meat, especially since glo... |
| 29.01.2018 | Memphis Meats Adds Tyson to Investor List With Cargill, Gates, Branson, Musk, more | *First Published August 23, 2017. Updated January 29, 2018 to reflect new investment from Tyson Foods.
Tyson Foods‘ venture arm has joined the laundry list of well-known investors backing cultured meat developer Memphis Meats.
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| 16.01.2018 | Mosa Meat CEO on clean meat, competition and disrupting a $1 trillion market | Four years ago, Mosa Meat's chief scientific officer Mark Post showcased the world's the very first clean meat burger. Made of muscle fibre produced without killing an animal, it had the texture of meat, but not the flavour or colour.
Since... |
| 21.12.2017 | Cultured fish co Finless Foods aims to achieve price parity with Bluefin tuna by the end of 2019 | Co-founder and CEO Mike Selden told FoodNavigator-USA: “Initially, quantities will be limited, and we’ll be working with chefs in high-end restaurants doing some really interesting things just to spark a conversation, and get the public to... |
| 08.12.2017 | Clean meat is greener, claims Hampton Creek: ‘Animal agriculture is a relatively inefficient way to create the foods that we want’ | Speaking to FoodNavigator-USA at FOOD VISION USA in Chicago, director of cellular agriculture Eitan Fischer said growing interest in clean meat (made by culturing cells without raising or slaughtering animals) and plant-based meat, egg an... |
| 01.12.2017 | 5 Takeaways From The Times’s ClimateTECH Conference | SAN FRANCISCO — Technology and business leaders gathered here on Thursday to discuss solutions to rising global temperatures at ClimateTECH, a conference hosted by The New York Times. |
| 10.10.2017 | Cultured Meat Will Cost Startups $150m-$370m (and Take At Least 4 More Years) to Bring to Market | There is a reason that high profile investors and entrepreneurs — and therefore media outlets globally — are getting increasingly excited about alternative protein-based food sources.
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates tha... |
| 05.10.2017 | Innovative Food: Startups Raise $206m to Meet Consumer Demand for Protein & Novel Ingredients | Consumer demands are changing at a faster pace than ever as our understanding of nutrition evolves.
Protein-rich foods are in particular demand, and with the meat industry responsible for more than 15% of greenhouse gas emissions, innovator... |
| 28.09.2017 | Lab-Growing Meat Startup Raises US$17M From KBW Ventures And More High-Profile Investors | September 28, 2017 4 min read
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Growing meat in a lab might sound like a storyline from a science fiction film, but startup Memphis Meats is seeking to... |
| 25.08.2017 | Seattle Week in Review: Amazon, Whole Foods, Salmon Spill, Beef Beef | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The dog days of summer are here, but there’s plenty of tech news to catch up on. Here’s a look at what’s happening with Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods and its amazing imp... |
| 23.08.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, August 23 | THE NIKE OF SLEEP
This morning Fortune published my latest (and sadly, my last!) magazine feature story. It’s a profile of mattress startup Casper and its CEO Philip Krim, who ranked #28 on our 40 under 40 list.
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| 23.08.2017 | Billionaires and big ag are joining venture investors to fund lab-grown meat | Eighty-five years ago, Winston Churchill wrote an article for Popular Mechanics that predicted humans would soon be growing their meat rather than cultivating animals for it.
Now, with $17 million in fresh financing from a slew of new inves... |
| 23.08.2017 | Lab-grown food startup Memphis Meats raises $17 million from DFJ, Cargill, Bill Gates, others | Meat grown in a laboratory is the future, if certain sustainable food advocates have their way, and one startup just raised a bucketload of cash from major investors to make this goal a reality.
Memphis Meats produces a variety of meat prod... |
| 23.08.2017 | Lab-grown food startup Memphis Meats raises $17 million from DFJ, Cargill, Bill Gates, others | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Meat grown in a laboratory is the future, if certain sustainable food advocates have their way, and one startup just raised a bucketloa... |
| 17.08.2017 | Hampton Creek CEO: ‘We’re growing, and not by an insignificant amount’ | Over the past couple of years, however, the narrative has changed, as anonymous sources briefed Business Insider about a ‘cult of delusion’ at a ‘food company masquerading as a tech company,’ and Bloomberg published a steady stream of h... |
| 07.06.2017 | What's the path to commercialization for clean meat? | In a mapping document penned by GFI senior scientists Liz Specht, Ph.D., and Christie Lagally, the authors note that, “Clean meat will likely find an early market entry point as a high-value ingredient in products that are predominantly ... |
| 31.05.2017 | Scale is the Real Barrier for Lab-Grown Meat | When the lab-grown meat industry is fully mature, production facilities will look very similar to breweries, according to Michael Selden, cofounder of Finless Foods, an early-stage cultured fish startup.
Lab-grown meat, or cultured meat — n... |
| 25.04.2017 | Can You Innovate Your Way to Better Beef, Chicken, or Fish? | Americans love protein. Each year they eat an average of 210 pounds of meat per capita, more than double the global average. It’s a figure that many believe is unsustainable if the agricultural industry is to feed a growing planet on less l... |
| 27.12.2016 | The 4 Key Biotechnologies Needed to Get Cellular Agriculture to Commercialization | Editor’s Note: Emily Byrd is the communications manager for The Good Food Institute, a nonprofit that works with scientists, investors, and entrepreneurs to support innovations in plant-based foods and clean meat. Here she outlines some of ... |
| 22.11.2016 | Lab-made meat startup Memphis Meats hopes to grow a Thanksgiving turkey | Memphis Meats sizzled onto the startup stage earlier this year with a lab-grown meatball. Now, it’s entertaining the idea of growing other meats — including turkey.
The startup has created an Indiegogo campaign to save some of the nearly 50... |
| 05.10.2016 | How Does Agtech Fit an Impact Investing Thesis? | Editor’s Note: I recently attended SOCAP, the largest conference for the impact investing community, and was excited to note a growing enthusiasm on the potential for food and agriculture technology to promote positive change in the world. ... |
| 05.10.2016 | Connecting the Dots: Trends in Crop Protection and Animal Health | Editor’s Note: Kevin Zussman is an agtech investor with Cultivian Sandbox, a venture capital firm that invests in food & agriculture technology startups. Cultivian Sandbox is a joint venture between Cultivian Ventures and Sandbox Ventur... |
