| Date | Title | Description |
| 26.09.2025 | Clean Food Group Gains a Million Litres of Fermentation Capacity by Acquiring Assets of Algal Omega 3 Ltd | Clean Food Group (CFG), a UK company creating sustainable oils and fats through fermentation, has acquired the assets of Algal Omega 3 Ltd from administration.
The acquisition will grant CFG access to a million litres of fermentation capaci... |
| 15.09.2025 | Startup Funding: Jim Mellon, Exec Chairman, Agronomics Jim Mellon, Executive Chairman of Agronomics, a leading VC firm that is helping to curate a future wave of biotech's in the UK, reveals what inve... | Jim Mellon, Executive Chairman of Agronomics, reveals what drives investor trust and smart growth.
What are the top three things founders should focus on when preparing to raise their first round of funding?
Firstly, without a doubt, what y... |
| 11.11.2024 | Fats from fermentation: Nourish Ingredients and CABIO Biotech announce strategic biomanufacturing partnership | Nourish Ingredients, an Australian startup creating novel fats via fermentation, has struck a deal with Chinese biomanufacturing co CABIO Biotech in which CABIO will manufacture Nourish’s first product ‘Tastilux’ at commercial scale.
Tastil... |
| 10.10.2024 | Clean Food Group to Create “Revolutionary” New Raw Materials for Cosmetics Through Transformed Food Waste | UK biotech company Clean Food Group has announced a strategic partnership with cosmetics product developer and manufacturer THG LABS to create groundbreaking raw materials, starting with a low-impact, high-performance oil for use in beauty ... |
| 31.07.2024 | From labs to market: 10 promising biotech startups based in the UK | Biotechnology, or biotech, uses living organisms to create products and technologies that improve our lives. This field spans not only healthcare but also sectors such as agriculture, environmental protection, and industrial processes, lead... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Creamy Future: Nourish Ingredients and Fonterra’s Fermentation Revolution**
** | ** In a world where food innovation meets sustainability, a new partnership is stirring the pot. Australian startup Nourish Ingredients is teaming up with New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra to create a new wave of dairy and non-dairy products... |
| 23.07.2024 | Designer lipids startup Nourish Ingredients collaborates with dairy giant Fonterra on fats from fermentation | Australian startup Nourish Ingredients has announced a collaboration with dairy giant Fonterra to accelerate the development of dairy products with fats produced via fermentation.
Nourish, which is developing a range of high-impact, low-inc... |
| 16.05.2024 | 🎥Fats from fermentation: Chewing the designer fat with Nourish Ingredients | The race is on to develop ‘designer’ fats for the next generation of food products. But will fats & oils produced by microbes in fermentation tanks ever be a cost-effective proposition?
The answer, says Australian startup Nourish Ingred... |
| 28.03.2024 | Clean Food Group Secures £2.5M to Launch Non-GMO Alternative to Palm Oil by 2025 | UK-based biotech firm Clean Food Group (CFG) has raised £2.5 million to accelerate the commercial launch of its yeast-derived, non-GMO alternative to palm oil by 2025.
Said to be equivalent to high-oleic palm oil, CFG’s go-to-market product... |
| 26.03.2024 | Clean Food Group raises £2.5M for its oil and fat substitutes | Clean Food Group (CFG) has announced £2.5M in funding following £13m raised in previous rounds. The injection of capital will be used to continue development of CFG’s sustainable oil and fat alternatives in the leadup to a planned commercia... |
| 26.03.2024 | Clean Food Group Raises £2.5M in Funding | Clean Food Group, a London, UK-based food-tech company, raised £2.5M in funding.
The round was led by Clean Growth Fund.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate the commercialisation of its technology.
Led by CEO Alex Neves, Clea... |
| 26.03.2024 | UK foodtech Clean Food Group gets €2.9 million to utilise food waste to deliver sustainable oil and fat ingredients | - |
| 06.03.2024 | Cultivated Biosciences raises $5m seed round to expand ‘yeast cream’ platform for alt dairy | Swiss startup Cultivated Biosciences has raised a $5 million seed round to scale up a yeast fermentation platform it claims can dramatically improve the mouthfeel and performance of alt dairy products and help firms achieve cleaner labels.
... |
| 15.12.2023 | Designer fats in focus: Does it make commercial sense to produce fats via precision fermentation? | Multiple startups now harness oil-producing microbes to create ‘designer’ fats with customized melting points, nutritional profiles, or green credentials. But will fats made via precision fermentation ever be a commercially viable alternati... |
| 11.12.2023 | Clean Food Group Receives £1M UK Award | Clean Food Group, a London, UK-based bio-tech startup, received a £1 award.
The UK Government’s Novel Low-Emission Food Production Systems: Industrial Research Grant was provided by Innovate UK, the UK’s national innovation agency, and the ... |
| 17.10.2023 | Can ‘designer fats’ made by microbes compete with animal fats and tropical oils? In conversation with Melt & Marble | The race is on to replace tropical [coconut, palm, cocoa] and animal fats with alternatives boasting superior functionality and a reduced environmental footprint. But will oil-producing microbes – even very high-yielding ones – ever be a sc... |
| 17.08.2023 | UK Food Tech Firm Raises £2.3M to Bring Fermentation-Based Palm Oil Alternative to Market | 3 Mins Read Ahead of a Series A round next year, UK biotech firm Clean Food Group has raised £2.3M in funding to accelerate the commercialisation of its fermentation-based fat, which it describes as a sustainable replacement for palm oil. T... |
| 15.08.2023 | Clean Food Group Raises £2.3M to Scale Pioneering Alternative to Palm Oil | UK-based biotech firm Clean Food Group (CFG) announces it has raised £2.3 million in funding to accelerate the commercialization of oil and fats produced using fermentation. The new capital will also fund regulatory and commercial approvals... |
| 14.08.2023 | UK foodtech startup Clean Food Group raises additional €2.7 million funding to develop sustainable oils and fats technology | - |
| 14.08.2023 | Clean Food Group Raises Additional £2.3M Funding | Clean Food Group, a London, UK-based food-tech business delivering sustainable oils and fats solutions, raised additional £2.3M in funding.
The round saw participation from Doehler Group, Alianza Team, Agronomics and SEED Innovations.
The c... |
| 14.08.2023 | Alianza Team and Doehler Group back Clean Food Group's sustainable tech with £2.3M | UK-based biotech firm Clean Food Group has raised a further £2.3 million in funding from Doehler Group and Alianza Team. Agronomics and SEED Innovations Ltd have pledged their continued support by participating in the round. The company pla... |
| 10.08.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Bactolife raises $33m, FAO scoops up $27 million, irrigation tech in the spotlight | This week, Danish startup Bactolife raised funds to develop gut microbiome-strengthening proteins and the UN’s FAO scooped up funding from the EU for its Sustainable Wildlife Management program. CPG giant Campbell made a new acquisition, as... |
| 07.08.2023 | 10 Years Since THAT Burger: 10 Highlights From The Cultivated Meat Journey | 10 Mins Read On August 5, 2013, a team of Dutch scientists from Maastricht University, led by Dr Mark Post, showcased the world’s first burger made from cultivated meat at a tasting in London. It was the result of decades of research and tr... |
| 02.06.2023 | Meet the founders: ÄIO looks to upcycled feedstocks to fuel biomanufacturing platform | Used in everything from lipsticks to confectionery and meat alternatives, tropical oils such as palm and coconut come with environmental and societal costs. But can oil-producing microbes snacking on upcycled feedstocks give them a run for ... |
| 22.05.2023 | The Dirty Business Of Fats And Why Alternatives Are Key To Future-Proofing Our Food System | 7 Mins Read A handful of startups around the world are pioneering new ways to produce the fat we all know and love, and unlocking a more sustainable food system in the process.
Fat is an important, but often misunderstood, core macronutrien... |
| 01.02.2023 | Who were the most active food and agriculture technology venture capital firms in 2022? | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder, a food and agriculture technology venture capital firm.
Click here for more research from AgFunder and ... |
| 08.12.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Grocery startup Oda bags $158m, new rounds for alt meat & restaurant tech | Despite losing its unicorn status, Norwegian online grocer Oda bagged a sizable round this week. Restaurant tech company MarginEdge and AgFunder portfolio company Black Sheep Foods also raised money, as did forest tech platform Gaia AI and ... |
| 04.08.2022 | Cultivated Palm Oil Has Potential to Reduce Dependency on Controversial Palm Oil Industry | Clean Food Group, a company developing cultivated palm oil alternatives made from yeast, is currently preparing for the commercialisation of its Clean Palm Oil planned for 2023 aiming to reduce dependency on the controversial palm industry.... |
| 02.08.2022 | UK-based foodtech startup Clean Food Group leaps forward to launch palm oil alternative | Chris Chuck – Yeast alternative to palm oil Research with Impact 2022 Client: Chris Melvin - Comms © University of Bath
Foodtech startup Clean Food Group is on a mission to develop a more sustainable alternative to palm oil. The UK-based te... |
| - | Clean Food Group | “We’re building the go-to sustainable oils and fats solutions provider to the world’s food and cosmetics manufacturers; delivering scalable, healthier, competitively-priced functional oils and fats solutions that have a positive impact on t... |
