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| 05.02.2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Vegan Hot Honey, Dairy-Free February & Earthshot Prize | 5 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Eleven Madison Park’s new vegan hot honey and Kite Hill’s post-Veganuary dairy-free campaign. New products and la... |
| 25.03.2024 | FoodTech 500: Plant-Based Companies Lead the Way in Forward Fooding’s Annual List of Food Innovators | 11 Mins Read Described as the “Fortune 500 of agrifood tech”, food tech consultancy Forward Fooding has released its 2023 FoodTech 500 list, with the highest number of companies belonging to the plant-based sector. Other alternative protein... |
| 21.11.2023 | RTP Startups Demonstrate Benefits of Plant-Based Proteins for Cell-Based Food Production | Results from a collaborative project between Tiamat Sciences and BIOMILQ — women-owned biotechnology startups in Research Triangle Park — show the promise of using plant-based proteins to lower the cost of producing food using cultured cell... |
| 07.07.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Green Generation Fund raises $120m, Amazon takes Grubhub stake | This week, Germany’s Green Generation Fund landed more capital to invest in alt-protein startups, while Israeli foodtech firm Phytolon scored funding for its natural food coloring tech.
In the food delivery realm, Amazon bought a stake in G... |
| 12.06.2022 | These 5 Alt Breast Milk Startups Could Prevent the Next Baby Formula Shortage | 5 Mins Read
The current U.S. baby formula shortage has brought into sharp focus a need for alternatives to be brought to market. The U.S. has been attempting to increase its supply of infant nutrition products, but with little success. The ... |
| 04.05.2022 | BIOMILQ Says Its Cell-Cultured Breast Milk Could Be Ready in 3-5 Years | BIOMILQ, a biotech startup producing human breast milk from cultured cells, reveals its technology is on pace to reach the market in the next three to five years. Aiming to disrupt the $52 billion infant formula industry, BIOMILQ is working... |
| 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... |
| 02.01.2022 | The 6 most mind-blowing human health discoveries of 2021 | COVID-19 research was just the tip of the iceberg for 2021 discoveries.
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There were many important scientific discoveries unrelated to Covid-19 this year.
Scientists have studied and developed new treatments for everything from ... |
| 27.12.2021 | The 6 most mind-blowing human health discoveries of 2021 | COVID-19 research was just the tip of the iceberg for 2021 discoveries. Getty Images
There were many important scientific discoveries unrelated to COVID-19 this year.
Scientists have studied and developed new treatments for everything from ... |
| 20.10.2021 | Bill Gates Backs Lab-Grown Breastmilk Startup Biomilq Again in $21M Series A | 1
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Biomilq, the female-founded biotech developing lab-grown breastmilk, has received backing from Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures in its latest Series A financing. The round, co-led by Breakthrough and Danish inv... |
| 20.10.2021 | BIOMILQ raises $21m in series A round to accelerate production of cell-cultured human milk | BIOMILQ takes cells from human mammary glands, feeds them nutrients so that they proliferate, and then triggers them with a change in the feedstock to differentiate and start producing ‘milk,’ which it stresses is not bio-identical to breas... |
| 20.10.2021 | Why PayPal, M1, Square and more want to be more than just JPMorgan or Charles Schwab | 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.
Every company is a fintech. That phrase was everywhere just about a year ago.
And while that’s mo... |
| 20.10.2021 | $21M Series A For BIOMILQ’s “Human Milk For Babies” Means Mothers Won’t Have to Rely On Dairy Products | US biotech company BIOMILQ, which produced human breast milk outside of the body for the first time this June, has raised $21 million in a Series A funding round.
BIOMILQ’s breast milk will provide a much-needed solution for parents who wis... |
| 20.10.2021 | Why PayPal, M1, Square and more want to be more than just JPMorgan or Charles Schwab | 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.
Every company is a fintech. That phrase was everywhere just about a year ago.
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| 24.06.2021 | 52 Women-Led Startups Driving The Future Of HealthTech And FemTech | The Hero Arm, developed by Open Bionics, cofounded by Samantha Payne, is the world’s first ... [+] clinically approved 3D-printed bionic arm, with multi-grip functionality and empowering aesthetics.Open Bionics |
| 03.06.2021 | Got BIOMILQ? Startup grows human breast milk in a lab in world first | Breast milk has joined the ranks of cultured chicken nuggets, lab-grown lamb chops and cell-based steak. North Carolina-based startup BIOMILQ recently announced that it has mimicked the production of human milk outside of the breast — by cu... |
| 01.06.2021 | Got Milk! BIOMILQ Is The First Company To Create Human Breast Milk In A Lab | BIOMILQ TeamBIOMILQ |
| 01.06.2021 | Scientists say they’ve made the first ‘human’ breast milk in a lab, and it’ll be available in about 3 years | Biomilq is the first lab-grown milk with the nutritional components and complexity of breast milk.
Two female scientists launched the startup to provide a superior-to-formula breast milk alternative.
The product should launch in about three... |
| 01.06.2021 | Biomilq Says It Has Successfully Produced World’s First Cell-Cultured Human Breast Milk | 5 Mins Read
Mammalian milk food tech startup Biomilq has announced that it has moved from the proof-of-concept stage into proof-of-complexity, producing what it says is the “world’s first cell-cultured human milk outside of the breast”. Thi... |
| 01.06.2021 | Scientists say they've made the first 'human' breast milk in a lab, due on sale around 2024 | Hollis Johnson/INSIDER
Biomilq is the first lab-grown milk with the nutritional components and complexity of breast milk.
Two female scientists launched the startup to provide a superior-to-formula breast milk alternative.
The product shoul... |
| 05.05.2021 | 8 startups reshaping the global food system | Editor’s note: This post is part of a collaboration with F&A Next, an AgFunder Network Partner. F&A Next was founded by Anterra Capital, StartLife, Rabobank, and Wageningen University & Research.
F&A Next is a platform dedic... |
| 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... |
| 24.02.2021 | Meet 18 Startups Transforming Food, From Fungi Protein To Cultured Breast Milk | 12 Mins Read
As our food system continues to battle challenges brought on by climate change and the coronavirus pandemic, innovation in the food tech startup world has been racing to come up with disruptive solutions. The upcoming Future Fo... |
| 23.02.2021 | Meet the Nine Plant-Based and Cell-Based Innovators at Future Food-Tech Summit 2021 | Nineteen innovative food-tech startups are preparing to showcase their technologies at the Future Food-Tech Summit. Among them are six plant-based and three cell-based companies, including Eighth Day Foods and BIOMILQ.
The startups are spli... |
| 07.01.2021 | TurtleTree Scientific: Singapore Cell-Based Startup To Bring Cost-Effective Growth Factors To Other Market Players | 1
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Singapore cell-based startup TurtleTree Labs has announced the launch of a new venture dedicated to the development of food-grade growth factors. Called TurtleTree Scientific, the team will work with other cell-based m... |
| 31.12.2020 | AFN’s top 20 news stories of 2020 | Earlier this week, we took a look at the top 20 guest articles from external contributors published on AFN in 2020.
Today, on the last day of the year, we’re listing the top 20 news and analysis pieces published by the AFN editorial team ov... |
| 25.12.2020 | Israeli startup races to make first lab-cultured breast milk | While most health experts today recommend breastfeeding babies over formula-feeding, not all mothers are able or willing to do so.
“In the first few months of life, when the baby is completely dependent on milk, there is no real substitute ... |
| 22.12.2020 | Q&A w/ Biomilq Founder Michelle Egger: “I Can’t Wait To Bring Cultured Breast Milk To Mums Who Need It” | 27 1
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One year ago, Michelle Egger and Leila Strickland founded Biomilq, a cell-ag startup farming breast milk outside of the body – a development that could disrupt the enormous profit-driven infant formula industry a... |
| 17.12.2020 | TurtleTree Labs Closes Oversubscribed US$6.2M Pre-A Round For Lab-Grown Breast Milk | 1
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TurtleTree Labs, the world’s first startup to develop lab-grown milk with the same composition as real dairy milk without any cows, has just announced the closing of an oversubscribed US$6.2 million Pre-A funding round... |
| 20.10.2020 | Singapore’s TurtleTree Labs Wins Entrepreneurship World Cup US$500,000 Prize For Its Lab-Grown Milk From All Mammals | 1
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TurtleTree Labs, the world’s first startup to develop lab-grown milk with the same composition as real dairy milk without any cows, has just won the grand prize amongst the 175,000 companies competing at the Entreprene... |
| 24.08.2020 | Bioreactor breastmilk, farm tech, and (of course) Covid-19: AFN’s top 20 stories in H1 2020 | By popular demand and given the unprecedented nature of the first six months of the year, AgFunder released its H1 2020 investment review last week. As might be expected, the half-year report showed that the continuing Covid-19 pandemic has... |
| 18.06.2020 | Blue Horizon Ventures Takes Significant Positions in Four Food Tech Brands, Recruits Brendan Brazier as Venture Partner | With four additional closings this June, as detailed below, Blue Horizon Ventures reports that in less than ten months its portfolio has now expanded to 12 mission-aligned companies and that it has deployed circa EUR 50M to accelerate their... |
| 16.06.2020 | BIOMILQ raises $3.5m to fund mammary cell-cultured human breastmilk platform, disrupt infant nutrition market | “Whether it’s low milk production, medical challenges, incompatible workplaces, or the ongoing stigma around breastfeeding in public, mothers often feed infant formula out of necessity rather than preference,” said co-founder Dr Leila Stri... |
| 06.02.2020 | These two women are taking the breast out of breastmilk | “It may not sound groundbreaking, but hear us out: Two women may have made breastmilk this week. One cell biologist. One food scientist. We are those women.”
So begins a Medium post to be published later this Thursday by Michelle Egger and ... |
| - | Lab-grown breast milk startup Biomilq aims to change infant nutrition — if it can release a product | Biomilq, a North Carolina-based startup, is working to recreate breast milk outside of the body, a breakthrough that could change the way infant nutrition is understood in America.
The company’s seemingly niche innovation took on new resona... |
| - | The baby-formula shortage is panicking parents. Here's how startups Bobbie and ByHeart are responding to the crisis. | Image Source/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
The traditional baby-formula market is regulated by the FDA, making innovation difficult.
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