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| 16.07.2025 | APAC-SCA Report Finds 76.7% of Chinese Respondents Would Try Cultivated Meat | The APAC Society for Cellular Agriculture (APAC-SCA) has conducted a market study examining consumer perceptions and acceptance of cellular agriculture products across four Tier 1 cities in China — Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen... |
| 23.06.2025 | The Future of Food: Innovations in Cellular Agriculture and Cultivated Meat | The landscape of food production is shifting. Innovations in cellular agriculture and cultivated meat are paving the way for a new era. This change is not just about feeding the world; it’s about doing so sustainably and ethically. Two rece... |
| 20.06.2025 | Avant’s Zellulin Cell-Cultured Peptide Becomes First Non-Food Product to Earn C-Label Certification | Avant’s Zellulin® ZelluGEN™ has achieved a milestone in the growing field of cellular agriculture by becoming the first non-food product to receive the C-Label certification. The C-Label, created by V-Label, is a standard that aims to ensur... |
| 12.01.2025 | Cultivated Meat: The Future of Food on the Horizon | The world is changing. Our food systems are at a crossroads. Population growth, environmental challenges, and the quest for sustainable protein sources are pushing us toward a new frontier: cultivated meat. This innovation offers a tantaliz... |
| 06.01.2025 | Qkine Launches Animal-Origin-Free & Food-Grade Growth Factors for Cellular Agriculture | Qkine, a producer of growth factors for cultivated meat and cellular agriculture, has launched a new product range.
The new growth factors are animal-origin-free, food-grade, and subject to extensive quality analysis. They are produced usin... |
| 23.08.2024 | GFI Report Explores Funding Landscape for Alt Proteins, Highlighting Challenges & Solutions | A new report by the Good Food Institute (GFI) has outlined the current funding landscape for alternative protein companies looking to scale from pilot to commercial manufacturing.
Called Funding the Build, the guide describes how venture ca... |
| 03.04.2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Oatly Jiggers, Flavoured Barista Milks & A Factory Farming Vote | 5 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers flavoured barista milks, Oatly’s new Jiggers, and Quorn’s sum... |
| 02.04.2024 | Avant Meats to Expand Cultivated Fish Production Significantly by 2025, Following Successful Pilot Production | China’s first cultivated and seafood startup, Avant Meats, is set to expand its manufacturing capacity from 250 to 2000 L bioreactors at its pilot plant in Singapore by 2025, CEO and co-founder Carrie Chan said in an interview with the Sout... |
| 16.11.2023 | Data snapshot: APAC alt protein investment trends… Transitioning from CPG to picks and shovels | Data snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
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| 16.05.2023 | Lever VC: How do we avoid a Theranos for cultivated meat? | Alternative protein investor Lever VC has released internal benchmarks for assessing the scientific progress of early-stage cultivated meat companies to help investors place more informed bets in a “complex and nascent industry” and help av... |
| 04.07.2022 | Avant Raises $10.8M to Commercialise Cultivated Seafood by 2023 | Chinese biotech firm Avant has raised $10.8 million in its Series A funding round. The company intends to use the funding to commercialise cultivated seafood.
The round was led by S2G Ventures, with other investors including Lever VC, CPT C... |
| 04.07.2022 | S2G joins cell-cultured seafood-maker Avant Meats' USD 10.8 million funding round | Hong Kong-based startup Avant announced it has received over USD 10.8 million (EUR 10.3 million) in a funding round led by S2G ventures.
Avant, a company specializing in cell-cultured fish fillets, said the funding round saw investments fro... |
| 01.07.2022 | What the hell is going on with crypto lending? | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Chaos continues to swirl in the world of crypto lending, and BlockFi is on the chopping block.
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| 30.06.2022 | Avant Announces more than US$10.8 Million Series A led by S2G Ventures to commercialize cultivated fish & marine protein | Avant's products: (left) Zellulin marine peptide, a skincare product active ingredient, (middle) Avie cultivated fish maw, (right) Avie cultivated fish fillet
Funding will support the construction of a pilot plant in Singapore and the marke... |
| 21.06.2022 | Avant Meats raises $10.8m in Series A funding round led by S2G Ventures | Cell-based seafood producer Avant Meats has secured $10.8 million in a Series A funding round led by S2G Ventures, according to regulatory filings.
S2G Ventures, which typically invests in companies specialising in the food, agriculture, oc... |
| 11.05.2022 | Singapore-based Good Startup raises $34M fund to invest in alternative protein companies | Good Startup founders Gautam Godhwani and Jayesh Parekh
Good Startup, a Singapore-based venture capital firm focused on alternative protein, has closed its latest fund. Consisting of $34 million, the new fund, called Good Protein Fund I, in... |
| 20.04.2022 | CellMEAT, a South Korean lab-grown shrimp producer, bags $8.1M Series A funding | As consumers’ interest in the environment and nutrition rises, food-tech companies join the race to invent meat alternatives. In 2021, alternative seafood companies received $175 million in investment globally, increasing 92% from 2020. A S... |
| 01.04.2022 | EXCLUSIVE: IntegriCulture debuts animal-free serum tech to radically reduce cultivated meat costs | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in IntegriCulture.
IntegriCulture has announced the commercial release of its basal medium which can be used to produce cultivated meat without the addition of animal-derived growth... |
| 08.03.2022 | IWD 2022: Celebrating the Queens Of Alt Protein Who Are Forging The Future Of Food | 166
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The two biggest plant-based protein startups in the world are run by men. The majority of the rising cell-based protein startups are also run by men, alongside most of the vegan investment groups that fund them... |
| 23.02.2022 | Who Will Asia’s Biggest Cultivated Seafood Players Be? | 5 Mins Read
Cultivated seafood is shaping up to be a serious niche within the cell-based protein sector. This is especially true in Asia, where demand for seafood remains high. In fact, more seafood is consumed per capita in the region than... |
| 09.02.2022 | Data Snapshot: Alt-protein is now in China’s 5-year plan. Here’s how much funding it raised in 2020 | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new r... |
| 22.10.2021 | Chinese cellular pork producer Joes Future raises $11m Series A funding | Chinese cultivated meat startup Joes Future Food has raised ¥70 million ($10.9 million) in funding, it said in an announcement on social media platform WeChat.
Local firms Hillhouse Capital, Matrix Partners China, Crystal Stream Capital, an... |
| 06.10.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Funds worth $300m+ launch in Europe, South America | The last seven days saw major agrifoodtech funds launched in Europe and South America, with well over $300 million to deploy between them; while cow-less dairy dreamers Perfect Day raised a moo-assive $350 million with a potential IPO in si... |
| 27.09.2021 | New Production Facility in Singapore for Cell-Cultured Fish Pioneer Avant | After being named as one of the World Economic Forum’s “Technology Pioneers” recently, Hong Kong’s cell-cultured fish pioneer Avant has announced the opening of a new production facility in Singapore.
Joining forces with A*STAR’s Bioprocess... |
| 21.07.2021 | Shiok Meats adds Asian food industry giants to cap table in latest funding round | Shiok Meats has closed a bridge financing involving several major food companies. While the cell-cultured seafood startup didn’t disclose how much it has raised, it said the round takes its total funding to date to $30 million.
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| 21.07.2021 | BREAKING: Shiok Meats adds Asian food industry giants to cap table in latest funding round | Shiok Meats has closed a bridge financing involving several major food companies. While the cell-cultured seafood startup didn’t disclose how much it has raised, it said the round takes its total funding to date to $30 million.
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| 17.06.2021 | Cell-Cultured Fish Company Avant Named “Technology Pioneer” by World Economic Forum | Avant, a Hong Kong company developing cell-cultured fish, has been named as one of the World Economic Forum’s “Technology Pioneers”. The company was recognised for its contributions in the field of Global Public Goods.
“We believe a technol... |
| 16.06.2021 | Hong Kong’s Avant Named WEF Technology Pioneer For Cell-Cultured Seafood | 3 Mins Read
Hong Kong-based Avant, the startup making fish proteins directly from cells, has been named one of the world’s 100 most promising Technology Pioneers for 2021. The list, selected by the World Economic Forum (WEF), identifies com... |
| 09.03.2021 | Cultivated Protein Startup Avant Meats To Slash Costs By 90% In New Partnership With QuaCell | 3 Mins Read
Hong Kong-headquartered cell-based marine protein startup Avant Meats has announced a strategic partnership with Guangdong-based biotech firm QuaCell, which will enable a 90% production cost reduction. With more cost-efficient p... |
| 08.03.2021 | IWD 2021: Celebrating the Queens Of Alt Protein Who Are Forging The Future Of Food | 15 Mins Read
Editor’s Note: This list is the result of hours of work, and no doubt we have missed some amazing queens. We will do our best to keep adding. On the startup side, we focused on founders, but many of these startups have incredib... |
| 18.02.2021 | Hong Kong Cell-Based Seafood Startup Avant Enters Skincare With Cultivated Marine Protein | 3 Mins Read
Hong Kong-based cultivated seafood startup Avant Meats has announced the launch of its cell-based functional protein for cosmeceutical products, marking its first foray into the skincare market. Produced in a traceable and contr... |
| 16.02.2021 | World’s First Cell-Based Collagen Product ‘Zellulin’ is Revealed by Avant | Hong Kong’s Avant is known to vegconomist readers as the first cultivated meat company in China, whose proprietary technology platform produces animal-free fish proteins for various applications ranging from food to skincare. Avant today an... |
| 27.01.2021 | Avant Meats Forms Strategic Partnership With Vietnam Seafood Giant To Bring Cultivated Fish To Market | 1
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Avant Meats, the Hong Kong-based food tech developing cell-based seafood, has announced a new strategic partnership with Vinh Hoan Corporation (VHC), the world’s largest pangasius fish producer based in Vietnam. The pa... |
| 26.01.2021 | Vietnam’s biggest fish exporter launches venture unit, invests in cultured seafood startup Avant | Vinh Hoan, one of the world’s largest exporters of fish, has made a strategic investment in cultured seafood startup Avant Meats.
The Vietnamese company will become a shareholder in Hong Kong-based Avant after agreeing to acquire Vinh Techn... |
| 25.01.2021 | Cultivated Fish Producer Avant Meats Gets Funding From Major Seafood Co | © Avant Meats
Hong Kong: Cultured fish producer Avant Meats announces that VHC, the world’s largest pangasius fish company, will establish a strategic partnership with Avant to accelerate commercialization of cultivated fish protein.
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| 25.01.2021 | Cultivated Fish Producer Avant Meats Gets Funding From Major Seafood Co | Hong Kong: Cultured fish producer Avant Meats announces that VHC, the world’s largest pangasius fish company, will establish a strategic partnership with Avant to accelerate commercialization of cultivated fish protein.
Avant is the first c... |
| 22.01.2021 | BlueNalu sets sights on Asia after raising cultured seafood’s biggest round yet | San Diego-based BlueNalu just raised $60 million in a convertible note financing, which the startup claims is the biggest funding round yet in the ‘lab-grown’ seafood space.
Rage Capital led the funding, with a host of new and existing inve... |
| 24.12.2020 | 5 trends that shaped agrifoodtech in 2020 | 2020 has been a year like no other in living memory for the vast majority of us. The Covid-19 pandemic, which began in China at the tail end of last year and gradually engulfed to entire world by the second quarter of this one, has brought ... |
| 11.12.2020 | Maw & more: Hong Kong’s Avant nets $3m funding to expand cultured seafood range | Hong Kong-based cultured meat startup Avant Meats, which grows ‘animal-free’ proteins from the cells of fish and other marine organisms for food, skincare, and other applications, has raised $3.1 million in seed funding.
Investors taking pa... |
| 11.12.2020 | Maw & more: Avant nets $3m funding to expand cultured seafood range | Hong Kong-based cultured meat startup Avant Meats, which grows ‘animal-free’ proteins from the cells of fish and other marine organisms for food, skincare, and other applications, has raised $3.1 million in seed funding.
Investors taking pa... |
| 04.12.2020 | Hong Kong’s Avant Meats Closes US$3.1M Seed Round To Commercialise Cultivated Fish In 2021 | 3 Mins Read
Hong Kong-based Avant Meats, the city’s only startup working on cell-based protein, has just closed a US$3.1 million seed funding round. Avant received backing from prominent regional and international investors, including the c... |
| 04.12.2020 | Daily funding roundup - Dec. 4th, 2020 | Codi has raised $7M; Rubedo Life Sciences secured $12M; Everlywell landed $25M
Rheaply: Rheaply is a Chicago-based resource management company that's right now working with universities, companies, and the U.S. government to increase their ... |
| 04.12.2020 | Biotechnology enterprise Avant Meats secures US$ 3.1 million seed funding | - |
| 03.12.2020 | Avant Meats Raises US$3.1M to Bring Cultivated Fish to Market in 2021 | Hong Kong-based startup Avant Meats, whose slogan is “Gratify without sacrifice”, produces sustainable fish and seafood products, using cell technology. This week Avant closed a seed round of funding with US$3.1 million to support its R&... |
| 03.12.2020 | Avant Meats Raises US$3.1M to Bring Cultivated Fish to Market in 2021 | © Avant Meats
Hong Kong-based startup Avant Meats, whose slogan is “Gratify without sacrifice”, produces sustainable fish and seafood products, using cell technology. This week Avant closed a seed round of funding with US$3.1 million to sup... |
| 20.11.2020 | Hong Kong’s Avant Meats Debuts Asia’s First Cultivated Fish Fillet | 28 1
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Hong Kong-based cell-based food tech Avant Meats has just unveiled its cultivated fish fillet in a regional first. The cultured fish fillet grown by the startup has been showcased in a cooking demonstration led by... |
| 27.10.2020 | The Most Exciting Alt Seafood Startups According To A Food Tech Investor | 12 3
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Editor’s Note: It’s the worst time in history for our oceans. They are filled with plastic, covered in dead zones caused by human pollution, dominated by hugely unethical fishing supply chains… Sealife doesn’t sta... |
| 01.04.2020 | Fish Today Contains 283 Times More Parasites Than 40 Years Ago | 64 2
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A new meta-analysis study by a research team at the University of Washington has revealed that fish now contains 283 times more parasitic worms than in the 1980s – which is ingested by humans when consuming raw, s... |
| 17.10.2019 | The 5 Best Food Tech Startups At Food’s Future Summit | 71 1
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The Food’s Future Summit took place on the 11th – 12th October, showcasing the most innovative food industry players as well as keynotes, exclusive launches and panel talks about solutions to our global food syste... |
| 11.09.2019 | Cell-Based Seafood Prototype Available Soon From Avant Meats | Avant Meats – whose tagline is “gratify without sacrifice” – is the first cell-based fish company in China, strategically established in Hong Kong, within the Greater Bay Area. The Company has been working on the production of fish meat, ma... |
| 11.09.2019 | Cell-Based Seafood Prototype Available Soon From Avant Meats | © Avant Meats Company Limited
Avant Meats – whose tagline is “gratify without sacrifice” – is the first cell-based fish company in China, strategically established in Hong Kong, within the Greater Bay Area. The Company has been working on t... |
| 29.04.2019 | Avant Meats, Hong Kong’s First Cell-Based Seafood Startup Looks To Tackle Demand For Prized Fish Maw & Sea Cucumber | 3 Mins Read
Cell-based meat, also known as lab-grown meat or cultured-meat, is trending right now with headlines about cruelty-free chicken nuggets and shrimp wowing inaugural tasters and Hong Kong-born cell-based seafood startup Avant Meat... |
| 16.04.2019 | Avant Meats: “Our Products are a Pragmatic Way for People to Reduce Harm to Animals and the Environment” | Avant Meats is a food tech company based in Hong Kong whose motto is, “Gratify without sacrifice.” The company produces high quality and sustainable fish and seafood products, using cell technology.
Avant Meat’s products will be produced su... |
