Oobli, formerly Joywell Foods, a sweet protein developer from California, USA, announces that it has received what it claims to be the FDA's first "No| Cultivated X
The new production site will initially develop brazzein, a sweet-tasting protein found in the fruit of the native West African Oubli plant, that is said to be| Cultivated X
Mycelial fermentation leader MycoTechnology announces significant progress in scaling production and ensuring the safety of the first-ever honey truffle| Cultivated X
Florida's Governor, Ron DeSantis, has signed a law prohibiting the sale and production of lab-grown meat within the state, making Florida the first US state| Cultivated X
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The Republicans (Les Républicains) party of France has introduced a bill in the National Assembly to prohibit the production and marketing of cultivated meat| Cultivated X
French startup Gourmey has secured €48 million in Series A funding to further develop its cultivated foie gras.| Cultivated X
Israeli food tech Wanda Fish Technologies announces it has secured $7 million in seed funding to scale the production of its first product --- cultivated| Cultivated X
Berlin-based biotech startup Pacifico Biolabs emerges from two years in stealth mode with the announcement of a $3.3 million oversubscribed pre-seed round.| Cultivated X
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© Investment Climate Podcast In this podcast series, Alex Shandrovsky interviews investors about benchmarks for funding Alt Proteins in 2025 and uncovers the investment playbooks of successful Climate Tech CEOs and Leading VCs. Podcast Host Alex Shandrovksy is a strategic advisor to numerous global food tech accelerators and companies, including alternative proteins and cellular agriculture leaders. His focus is on investor relations and post-raise scale for agrifood tech companies. This pod...| Cultivated X
© CellRev CellRev, a UK company producing proprietary media additives to optimise cell manufacturing, has ceased trading. In a LinkedIn statement, CEO Chris Green explained that the company had not been able to deliver commercial milestones quickly enough to secure Series A funding. Despite this, he noted that CellRev had achieved several goals since it was founded in 2018 as a spinout from Newcastle University. These included developing a continuous adherent cell ... more| Cultivated X
© Dr. Robert Scott MycoTechnology, a US company using advanced fermentation technology to create value-added ingredients, has appointed Dr. Robert Scott to its Board of Directors. Scott is a food and beverage industry executive with over 25 years of experience across the corporate, academic, and nonprofit sectors. He was previously President of R&D at Kraft Heinz and Vice President of R&D at Coca-Cola, where he led new ingredient discovery and sweetener technology development. Additionally, ...| Cultivated X
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The recording of our recent webinar, “Rethinking Food: APAC as a Living Lab for the Future,” is now available on the vegconomist YouTube channel. This session explored the transformative role the APAC region is playing in the future of food innovation. Moderated by Nadine Filko, the webinar brought together a diverse panel of experts: Megumi Abigail Yoshitomi, President of the Japan Association for Cellular Agriculture; Byron Perez, Programme Doctorate at ... more| Cultivated X
German biotech startup MyriaMeat announces that it has successfully developed a cultivated pork fillet made entirely from pig cells, without the use of| Cultivated X
Koralo, a German B2B alternative seafood startup operating a subsidiary in South Korea, announces a milestone in the production of its flagship product called| Cultivated X
PHW Group, one of Europe's largest poultry producers, and Israeli food-tech SuperMeat have partnered to bring cultivated meat to the masses. The deal will| Cultivated X
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The cellular agriculture startup will now double pilot production of its cultivated shrimp before entering the B2B and B2C market in Singapore within the next| Cultivated X
Meatable has held a tasting for its cultivated meat in Singapore, inviting a select group of retail partners and the Singaporean Economic Development Board to| Cultivated X
French cultivated meat company, Vital Meat, announces it has submitted a novel food pre-market regulatory dossier to the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) seeking| Cultivated X
The approval will enable the company to import, manufacture, and sell Fermotien or products containing it while expanding its operations in the country.| Cultivated X
Vancouver-based Maia Farms, a B2B producer of the mycoprotein and winner of the Deep Space Food Challenge Grand Prize with its ingredient CanPro, announces it| Cultivated X
Nosh.bio, a B2B biomass fermentation startup based in Germany, has developed a unique mycoprotein that allows manufacturers to produce single-ingredient meat| Cultivated X
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Precision fermentation company Bond Pet Foods has partnered with previous investor Wilbur-Ellis Nutrition, a leading provider of innovative animal nutrition| Cultivated X
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Chicago's Aqua Cultured Foods and the Boston-based biotech Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA) announce a collaboration to transform alternative seafood production| Cultivated X
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New research conducted by Ipsos in the UK has revealed that 47% of Gen Z Brits (defined as those aged 16-29) would consume cultivated meat products. This| Cultivated X
Based in Canada, CULT Food Science boasts one of the most impressive portfolios not only in cellular agriculture but in all of alt protein.| Cultivated X
The U.S. Department of Defense's manufacturing innovation institute, BioMADE, has released a call for proposals to develop sustainable food and material| Cultivated X
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In a recent Future of Foods interview, Alex Crisp, spoke to CEO and founder Didier Toubia on the progress of Aleph Farms. The company, which has been at the| Cultivated X
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The NEOM Investment Fund (NIF) has entered into a strategic partnership with Liberation Labs, a leader in precision fermentation biomanufacturing. This| Cultivated X
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Meatable, a leader in cultivated meat technology, has announced its involvement in the 2025 edition of London Climate Action Week. As Europe’s largest climate| Cultivated X
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A new report from technology forecasting firm GetFocus reveals that lab-grown meat technologies are advancing at a faster rate than traditional livestock| Cultivated X
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A legislative committee in South Dakota has put forward a bill that would ban the manufacture, sale, and distribution of cultivated meat in the state.| Cultivated X
Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen has signed an executive order prohibiting state agencies from procuring cultivated meat products. The order also bars entities| Cultivated X
Cultivated fat startup Mission Barns has engineered a new bioreactor to optimize cultivated meat production, aiming to replace the single-cell suspension| Cultivated X
US food tech Mission Barns has unveiled its new headquarters and cultivated fat production plant, claiming to be fully prepared to hit the market with its| Cultivated X
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Israel's Brevel, a biomass fermentation startup using microalgae protein to create sustainable ingredients, announces the grand opening of its first| Cultivated X
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In this episode, I talked with Giacomo Bastianelli, CEO of Rainbow Crops, a VIB spinout focused on engineering complex traits in crops using AI-driven| Cultivated X
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In this podcast series, Alex Shandrovsky interviews investors about benchmarks for funding Alt Proteins in 2025 and uncovers the investment playbooks of| Cultivated X
The company’s new direction is highlighted by the launch of CoffeeCoa™, a cocoa substitute developed through innovative use of microencapsulation. The| Cultivated X
Green Bioactives, a Scottish biotechnology company specializing in sustainable plant-based natural products, has secured a grant of up to £1.1 million from| Cultivated X
A new report by Lever VC has found that skepticism about the viability of cultivated meat may be unfounded.| Cultivated X
French precision fermentation company Bon Vivant has announced that it is rebranding to Verley and launching a new portfolio of functionalized dairy proteins| Cultivated X
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In this podcast series, Alex Shandrovsky interviews investors about benchmarks for funding Alt Proteins in 2025 and uncovers the investment playbooks of| Cultivated X
In this episode, I interviewed Jason Rosenbaum, co-founder and co-CEO of Actual Veggies, who recently closed a $7M Series A. Jason breaks down why his company| Cultivated X
Cellular agriculture investment firm CULT Food Science Corp. has published an open letter to the Florida Government expressing the company's opposition to the| Cultivated X
Last November, UPSIDE Foods made history when it became one of the first two cultivated meat companies to have a product greenlit by the FDA. Since then, the| Cultivated X
In this podcast series, Alex Shandrovsky interviews investors about benchmarks for funding Alt Proteins in 2025 and uncovers the investment playbooks of| Cultivated X
South Korean biotech SeaWith and Icelandic molecular farming company ORF Genetics are partnering to accelerate the production of cultivated meat with| Cultivated X
Microalgae scaffolds and growth media developer Seawith and biomanufacturer Esco Aster unite to accelerate cultivated meat production.| Cultivated X
Alt-dairy startup Perfect Day announces that Nestle has begun testing its first animal-free milk product, Cowabunga, in select Safeway stores in San| Cultivated X
Gourmey, a French startup producing cultivated foie gras, has become the first company to apply for regulatory approval to sell cultivated meat in the| Cultivated X
Korean food tech startup TissenBioFarm has unveiled a 10 kg cultivated meat prototype at the inauguration of South Korea's first cellular agriculture hub, the| Cultivated X
