| Date | Title | Description |
| 30.05.2025 | CULT Food Science Venture Arm Company California Cultured Achieves Major Scale-Up Milestone in Cell-Cultured Cocoa Production | Toronto, Ontario – May 30, 2025 / CNW / CULT Food Science Corp. (“CULT” or the “Company”)
(CSE: CULT) (OTC: CULTF) (FRA: LN00), a disruptive food technology investment platform focused
on making investments to pioneer the commercialization ... |
| 29.05.2025 | The Future of Food: Cellular Agriculture Beyond Burgers | The world of food is changing. Cellular agriculture is at the forefront of this revolution. It’s not just about burgers anymore. This technology is reshaping how we think about food production. It’s a wave of innovation, sweeping across the... |
| 23.05.2025 | Guest Post: There’s So Much More to Cellular Agriculture Than Burgers | Jim Mellon is Executive Chairman of Agronomics, a pioneering investment company focused on sustainable and alternative proteins. An accomplished author, entrepreneur, and investor, Mellon co-founded Agronomics in 2019 and serves on the boar... |
| 27.11.2024 | CULT Food Science Congratulates Venture Arm Companies on Recent Achievements | CULT is uniquely positioned to benefit from early investments into leading cellular agriculture and lab grown meat companies
Toronto, Ontario, November 27, 2024 / CNW / CULT Food Science Corp. (“CULT” or the “Company”) (CSE: CULT) (OTC: CUL... |
| 26.11.2024 | 🎥Biomass fermentation in focus at MISTA growth hack: ‘The food of the future is going to be manufactured in a tank’ | Biomass fermentation—which is used to produce everything from mycoprotein to DHA-packed animal feed supplements—is generally cheaper than precision fermentation because firms are harvesting the whole biomass, and skipping costly downstream ... |
| 11.10.2024 | The Future of Chocolate: How California Cultured is Revolutionizing Cocoa Production | In a world where the demand for chocolate is skyrocketing, the supply chain is crumbling. Traditional cocoa farming faces a perfect storm of challenges: climate change, deforestation, and ethical concerns. Enter California Cultured, a start... |
| 11.10.2024 | Chocolate Giant Puratos Makes Strategic Investment in California Cultured’s Cell-Based Cacao | California Cultured, a startup pioneering plant cell culture to produce cacao, has received an undisclosed investment from Sparkalis, the food tech venture arm of the Belgian international group Puratos.
The new capital will fund the startu... |
| 10.10.2024 | Sparkalis Invests in plant cell culture startup California Cultured to futureproof cocoa supply chain | California Cultured—a startup producing flavanol-rich cocoa and other botanicals via plant cell culture, has secured a “significant” investment from Sparkalis, the corporate venture arm of bakery ingredients and chocolate giant Puratos.
The... |
| 31.05.2024 | Meet the founder: Voyage Foods’ Adam Maxwell on futureproofing the chocolate supply chain | Looking at cocoa prices over the last few years, there’s a fair bit of volatility, says Voyage Foods founder Adam Maxwell. But if you normalize the curve, he says, they’re just going in one direction (spoiler alert: it’s up). And in the l... |
| 30.05.2024 | CULT Food Science Provides Update on Global Investment Portfolio | Strategic seed and Series A investments into cellular agriculture and lab grown meat companies position the Company on leading edge of foodtech
Toronto, Ontario, May 30, 2024 / CNW / CULT Food Science Corp. (“CULT” or the “Company”) (CSE: C... |
| 08.05.2024 | 4 startups taking the cocoa out of chocolate | Listen to the article 3 min
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A global cocoa shortage has sent chocolate prices skyward. The International Cocoa Organization pointed to production declines in two countri... |
| 22.04.2024 | Futureproofing your Morning Joe? Atomo opens ‘beanless’ coffee roastery in Seattle | [Disclosure: AgFunder, parent company to AgFunderNews, is an investor in Atomo.]
Atomo—maker of the ‘world’s first beanless espresso’—has opened a 33,547sq ft roastery in Seattle capable of producing four million pounds of ground ‘coffee’ a... |
| 06.03.2024 | CULT Food Science Applauds Regulatory Approval of Cultivated Beef and Provides Portfolio Company Updates | TORONTO, March 6, 2024 /CNW/ - CULT Food Science Corp. ("CULT" or the "Company") (CSE: CULT) (OTC: CULTF) (FRA: LN0), a pioneer in the investment, development, and commercialization of cellular agriculture technologies a... |
| 13.02.2024 | California Cultured Signs 10-Year Agreement for Cell-Cultured Cocoa with Japan’s Largest Chocolate Company | California Cultured, a West Sacramento-based startup specializing in plant cell culture, has announced a partnership with Meiji Ltd. Co., Japan’s largest chocolate company. This collaboration involves the integration of California Cultured’... |
| 12.02.2024 | California Cultured Joins Forces with Japanese Chocolate Giant Meiji for Cell-Based Cocoa Products | 5 Mins Read US startup California Cultured will see its cell-based cocoa incorporated in products by Japanese chocolate giant Meiji, with a 10-year commercial partnership for the former’s Flavanol Cocoa Powder.
West Sacramento-based food te... |
| 31.01.2024 | Real coffee… without the beans? Pluri deploys plant cell culture to futureproof coffee supply chain | With demand for coffee expected to dramatically exceed supply as climate change impacts key growing regions, a flurry of creative solutions has emerged, with startups exploring everything from bean-free alternatives and more robust coffee p... |
| 11.10.2023 | Atomo Coffee introduces ‘world’s first beanless espresso,’ fields calls from leading coffee brands | [Disclosure: AgFunder, parent company to AgFunderNews, is an investor in Atomo]
Seattle-based startup Atomo—which unveiled the ‘world’s first beanless espresso’ this week at Gumption Coffee in New York—is gearing up to open a facility in Ma... |
| 09.10.2023 | From on-farm fertilizer production to upcycled coffee grounds to replace alkalized cocoa, two circular economy startups to watch | From sugary wastewater from food production facilities to brewers’ spent grains and used coffee grounds… scores of so-called ‘waste’ streams are now being upcycled into a new generation of products.
On the farm, meanwhile, enterprising star... |
| 21.07.2023 | Reasons Not To Take Chocolate For Granted | Chocolate starts with a pod (upper left) which contains the beans (lower left) that are extracted, ... [+] fermented and dried before being shipped off for additional steps needed to make these treats.getty |
| 05.05.2023 | Plant cell culture deep dive: As cracks emerge in botanical supply chain, ‘It’s a huge space to watch’ | Plant cell culture has been around for decades, but it hasn’t set the world on fire… yet. So what is it, and what explains the recent emergence of a flurry of startups seeking to unlock its potential in food and nutraceuticals? A cluster of... |
| 19.04.2023 | BREAKING: Ayana Bio unveils first ingredients made using plant cell culture as cracks show in strained botanical supply chain | Ayana Bio has launched its first ingredients (lemon balm and echinacea) made via plant cell culture, an approach it claims can provide a consistent supply of botanicals without the supply chain headaches associated with traditional agricult... |
| 24.01.2023 | Coffee and Chocolate Drive Deforestation and Human Rights Violations. Can the Industries Change? | 8 Mins Read The world loves coffee and chocolate. But both are linked to two big problems: deforestation and ongoing human rights violations. What will it take for the industries to change their ways for good?
Both coffee and chocolate are ... |
| 01.06.2022 | Voyage Foods CEO: ‘If you look at cocoa and coffee prices over the last 20 years, they’re going in one direction’ | “You'll see Voyage Foods branding on the front and back of the label,” says founder and CEO Adam Maxwell, who was speaking to FoodNavigator-USA after raising $36m in a series A round led by funds managed by UBS O'Connor and Level One... |
| 24.05.2022 | Blue Horizon: “One of the Clear Leaders in Sustainable Food Investing” | Björn Witte is Managing Partner and CEO of Blue Horizon Corporation. He was also a Co-Founder and acted as CEO of the LIVEKINDLY Collective.
Björn talks to vegconomist about the future of protein and how Blue Horizon is on track to reach th... |
| 01.03.2022 | Blue Horizon Invests in California Cultured and the Future of Chocolate | Blue Horizon announces an investment in California Cultured, the cell cultivated chocolate leader. The move represents Blue Horizon’s first investment in plant cell culture, with California Cultured’s pioneering cellular agriculture tech se... |
| 17.02.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Equip gets $58m to help manage eating disorders; Bowery acquires Traptic | This week, US telehealth startup Equip raised funds for its eating disorder management platform, while Danish agtech company Agreena secured $22.5 million to help farmers participate in carbon markets.
In Asia, Next Gen Foods, the company b... |
| 08.02.2022 | CULT Invests in California Cultured, Pioneer of Cell-Cultivated Chocolate | CULT Food Science Corp has further diversified its cell-based food portfolio via a strategic investment into cultured chocolate leader California Cultured Inc. The sustainable and ethical chocolate manufacturer is using cellular agriculture... |
| 06.12.2021 | Cellular agriculture & emerging markets: Just because we can, does it mean we should? | Saron Berhane is an agrifoodtech entrepreneur based in Sydney, Australia.
The views expressed in this guest commentary are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of AFN.
Alt-protein is taking the food world by storm. Plant-ba... |
| 22.10.2021 | $4M Invested in California Cultured’s Cell-Cultured Chocolate to Solve Deforestation and Child Labor in Cocoa | Agronomics has led a Seed Funding Round for California Cultured, a food-tech company based in Davis, California, which utilises cell culture technology to produce cocoa products like cocoa powder, chocolate, cocoa butter and flavanols in or... |
| 14.07.2021 | Lab-Grown Chocolate Could Be The Future of Sustainable Confectionery | 4 Mins Read
You might have heard about lab-grown meat. But what about lab-grown chocolate? Researchers based in one of the world’s chocolate hubs, Switzerland, have made chocolate in bioreactors for the first time. And it could just be the ... |
