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| 22.01.2025 | The Rise of Sustainable Indulgence: Cultivated Caviar and Plant-Based Milk in a Changing Market | In a world where indulgence meets responsibility, two emerging trends are reshaping the culinary landscape: cultivated caviar and plant-based milk. These innovations are not just about taste; they are about sustainability, ethics, and the e... |
| 20.01.2025 | No Comp-roe-mise: Asian Alt-Seafood Leader Swims Into Gen Z TikTok Trend with Cultivated Caviar | 5 Mins Read Singapore-based cellular agriculture pioneer Umami Bioworks has introduced its latest product, cultivated caviar, for high-end restaurants, retailers and consumers.
Joining the cultivated meat companies targeting premium markets... |
| 13.11.2024 | $229 Billion Cultured Meat Market Trends and Forecast Estimates, 2020-2023, 2024, 2035 and 2050 – ResearchAndMarkets.com | DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “Cultured Meat Market: Industry Trends and Forecasted Estimates to 2050 – Distribution by Source of Meat, Type of Cultivation Technique, Form of Meat Produced, End Products Offered and Key Geographical Region” rep... |
| 11.03.2024 | TIME’s Top GreenTech Companies of 2024 Recognizes The Better Meat Co., Rebellyous Foods, Prime Roots & More | TIME Magazine together with Statista, a leading statistics portal, recently unveiled America’s Top GreenTech Companies in 2024, recognizing 250 firms leading the charge in sustainability and environmental stewardship.
Among these, FoodTech ... |
| 05.02.2024 | Cultivated seafood co Finless Foods reduces headcount | A flurry of departures at California-based Finless Foods—one of the first players to enter the cultivated seafood segment—suggests the firm has engaged in a fresh round of layoffs as the funding environment has deteriorated.
The startup—whi... |
| 11.01.2023 | Lab-grown caviar and foie gras could be biotech's newest goldmine, industry experts say: 'Being ethical is the new luxury' | Lab-grown caviar by Caviar Biotec, an arm of the UK company Exmoor Caviar. Courtesy of Caviar Biotec
Many companies are racing to stock lab-grown meat in supermarkets, but it's an expensive endeavor.
Some entrepreneurs see more potential in... |
| 02.10.2022 | The Foundation of our Food and Drink Focus | The first time we officially declared Food as a focus area was in the spring of 2018. “We see an impending tech-driven revolution in food, top to bottom,” we proclaimed. The never-ending hunt for new ingredients can indicate what people are... |
| 14.05.2022 | Finless Foods Launches Pokè-Style Plant-Based Tuna into US Food Service Nationwide | Finless Foods, a leading alt-seafood company, announces its first official product, plant-based pokè-style tuna, is launching at the National Restaurant Association (NRA) show in Chicago. Now available for US nationwide purchase through Gor... |
| 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... |
| 10.03.2022 | Finless Foods closes USD 34 million Series B fundraising round | Emeryville, California, U.S.A.-based cell-cultured and plant-based seafood analog company Finless Foods has closed on USD 34 million (EUR 30.9 million) in a Series B fundraising round.
The company, which plans to launch a plant-based tuna p... |
| 10.03.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Finless Foods nets $34m; CPGs & QSRs quit Russia | This week, cultivated seafood startup Finless Foods closed a $34 million funding round, Clean Crop Technologies raised funds for its crop protection tool, and Protenga nabbed capital for its insect farming operations.
Meanwhile, major food ... |
| 09.03.2022 | Finless Foods Nets $34 Million Series B Funding for Plant-Based and Cultivated Tuna | 3 Mins Read
Californian alternative seafood startup Finless Foods has closed a $34 million funding round ahead of specialist facilities construction. The round was led by Hanwha Solutions, with Dainichi Group, At One Ventures and Sustainabl... |
| 08.03.2022 | Finless Foods raises $34m to build cell-cultured seafood pilot plant, support national foodservice launch of plant-based tuna | The announcement comes hot on the heels of a $100m raise from fellow cell-cultured seafood startup Wildtype, which has a "modest" pilot plant in San Francisco but says a larger facility will come online shortly to support the ... |
| 08.03.2022 | Finless Foods raises $34M | Finless Foods has a raised a $34 million Series B led by Hanwha Solutions. The company is a developer of cell-cultured seafood products; it plans to use the funding in part to add plant-based tuna to its offerings in 2022.
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| 07.03.2022 | Finless Foods Raises $34M in Series B Funding | Finless Foods, an Emeryville, CA-based cell-cultured seafood company, raised $34M in Series B funding.
The round, which brings the total raised to nearly $48M since 2017, was led by Hanwha Solutions, with participation from Dainichi Corp, A... |
| 07.03.2022 | California’s Finless Foods Secures $34M For Cell-Cultured Bluefin Tuna | Finless Foods, which claims to have been the first cell-cultured seafood producer and the first to serve cell-cultured fish in the US, has closed a $34M Series B round, bringing its total raise to $48M. The company states the fresh funds wi... |
| 07.03.2022 | Finless Foods Bringing Plant-Based Tuna To The Masses, Ramping Up Cell-Cultured Plans with $34 Million In Series B Funding [Read Article] | - |
| 31.01.2022 | Where To Find Plant-Based Dishes At South Beach Wine And Food Festival 2022 | Vegan coconut curry served at the Grand Tasting Village at a previous edition of South Beach Wine & ... [+] Food Festival (Photo by Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images for SOBEWFF) getty |
| 10.06.2021 | California’s Finless Foods Announces Launch of “Sushi Grade” Cell-Cultured Tuna | As the plant-based seafood industry is projected to grow 28% annually over the next decade, Finless Foods of Emeryville California has announced a new cell-based tuna offering, as well as a brand refresh and new website.
“The feedback recei... |
| 08.06.2021 | Sustainable Tuna Becomes A Reality On World Ocean Day | To celebrate World Oceans Day, Finless Foods announced its new plant-based tuna product that offers ... [+] a way for consumers to support healthy oceans. Finless Foods |
| 06.06.2021 | There’s Plenty Of Fish-Cell Opportunity For Cellular Agriculture And Biomedicine | Fish-cell production could open new opportunities for food security and biomedicinegetty |
| 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... |
| 14.10.2020 | Where are the world’s first ‘lab burger’ growers now? Enlarging their Series B raise | These days, it feels like most days are a ‘World Something Day.’ If there’ll ever be an ‘International Cultured Meat Day,’ an apt date to mark it is August 5.
On that day in 2013, Dutch foodtech company Mosa Meat brandished the world’s firs... |
| 15.06.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: How We Manage Our Portfolio: Why It Remains Strong During Market Corrections (And Apparently Pandemics) | When COVID-19 hit, it hit hard. Who would have imagined the Federal Reserves slashing interest rates down to zero to salve a dead stopped economy? Or imagined a worldwide lockdown? The modern world has, literally, never seen anything like t... |
| 07.05.2020 | Hatch 4.0 accelerator is open for innovators who can bring sustainability to aquaculture | Hatch is inviting startups to apply for the fourth cohort of its aquaculture-focused accelerator program.
It’s looking for eight to 10 companies from anywhere in the world, at seed or pre-seed stage, to join the 15-week program. Applicants ... |
| 26.02.2020 | Cultivated Food Tech Startups Unite To Create Industry Alliance & Lobby For New Regulatory Framework | 0
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A new Alliance for Meat, Poultry & Seafood Innovation comprised of 5 cultivated food tech companies has been established to work with governmental bodies to determine regulation and labelling policies for cell-based produc... |
| 11.02.2020 | Cell-based meat in focus: In conversation with Meatable, Finless Foods, New Age Meats | Despite all the hype, most startups in the space are still working in a laboratory (as opposed to a factory), although several have recently raised more substantial sums (Memphis Meats: $161m, Future Meat Technologies: $14m, Wild Type... |
| 07.01.2020 | Inception with Mike Selden, CEO of Finless Foods | Mike Selden is CEO of Finless Foods, bringing sustainable, delicious seafood to the world without having to farm or harvest live fish. In this episode, Mike talks about how growing up watching Miyazaki films affected his vision for his comp... |
| 16.10.2019 | In the Accelerator over the Sea | In our oceans the scale of disasters is measured in millions, billions, and trillions, while solutions amount to single digits: individuals or institutions working to impact a chosen issue with approaches often both brilliant and quixotic. ... |
| 23.07.2019 | Clean Meat Startups: 10 Lab-Grown Meat Producers to Watch | 162 shares
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| 07.07.2019 | Fish replacement may be the next big wave in alternative protein development | Brian Kateman Contributor
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| 23.05.2019 | Who Are the Most Active AgriFood Tech Investors? | While still a niche corner of the overall venture capital industry, investment in AgriFood Tech startups has grown exponentially since 2012, reaching $17 billion in 2018, according to our research.
AgriFood Tech encompasses all foodtech and... |
| 13.02.2019 | 60 AgriFood Tech Startups Nominated for 2019 AgFunder Innovation Awards – Vote Now! | *VOTING EXTENDED UNTIL MARCH 1, 9AM ET!*
We’re very excited to open our Third Annual AgFunder AgriFood Tech Innovation Awards, where we recognize the innovators and entrepreneurs driving the agrifood tech sector forward.
Our nomination comm... |
| 11.12.2018 | JUST strikes deal in Japan to bring cell-cultured Wagyu beef to market | Under the deal, JUST will develop cultured Wagyu beef from Toriyama cell lines, and Awano (Toriyama's export agent with clients around the globe) will market and sell the meat.
While Wagyu beef is known for its high levels of intra-muscular... |
| 01.08.2018 | Clean meat: How do US consumers feel about cell cultured meat? | While early research on consumers’ reactions to clean meat has been mixed, it has generally focused on understanding ‘baseline’ attitudes — “asking people who know little about it whether they’d be willing to eat it,” said Faunalytics - ... |
| 25.06.2018 | Cultured fish co Finless Foods raises $3.5m, predicts “rapid commercialization within years, not decades” | In a post on medium, Selden said the round – led by Silicon Valley-based VC firm Draper Associates - had been completed “a few months ago,” and was supported by Softmatter VC in New York, Starlight in Florida, The U-Start Club in Italy, ... |
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| 21.06.2018 | Cellular Biology Seafood Startup Finless Foods Raises $3.5M in Seed | Finless Foods, a San Francisco, CA-based cellular biology seafood startup, raised $3.5m in seed funding.
The round was led by Draper Associates, with participation from Softmatter VC, Starlight, U-Start Club, Blue Horizon, Hemisphere Ventur... |
| 20.06.2018 | Finless Foods Raises $3.5m Seed Round to Culture Bluefin Tuna | Finless Foods, a San Francisco-based startup working on culturing tuna using cellular agriculture, has closed a $3.5 million seed round led by California tech VC Draper Associates.
Finless is one of a growing group of startups attempting to... |
| 15.06.2018 | FDA announces public meeting on cultured meat, says it can be regulated under existing frameworks | The announcement also made it clear that regulating cultured meat – which involves producing meat from growing animal cells outside an animal – falls squarely within the FDA's remit, despite calls for USDA to create new regulations governi... |
| 18.05.2018 | Ill considered’ cattlemen’s petition ‘would cause chaos’ in the marketplace,’ claims North American Meat Institute | While cattle farmers are concerned about how cultured meat – which is produced from animal cells but does not involve raising or slaughtering animals - might impact the meat industry as we know it, leading meat processors see it as an oppor... |
| 17.05.2018 | Clean meat: ‘Traditional animal agriculture has reached capacity,’ says Future Meat Technologies | Speaking to FoodNavigator-USA after raising $2.2m in a seed funding round co-led by Tyson Ventures - the venture arm of meat giant Tyson Foods – FMT founder Professor Yaakov Nahmias said: “We can get the price down probably in about 6-8 m... |
| 02.05.2018 | Approving cattlemen’s petition would have a “chilling” effect on food innovation, says Memphis Meats | While no cultured meat products are on the market yet, a handful of players from Mosameat in the Netherlands, Future Meat Technologies and SuperMeat in Israel, Memphis Meats, Finless Foods and Just Inc in the US, and Integricultu... |
| 23.04.2018 | Five Cultured Meat Startups Raise Funding as Fledgling Industry Comes into Focus | So far in 2018, at least five startups using cellular agriculture, the science behind cultured meat that can be used to manufacture many animal products in a lab setting, have raised funds as this fledgling industry diversifies and grows.
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| 13.04.2018 | Ag Industry Brief: FBN Makes Moves in Canada, Bayer Sells Digital to BASF, more | Bayer to Sell Digital Assets to BASF Ahead of Monsanto Deal
After getting what is likely the final go-ahead from the US Justice Department, Bayer will sell its digital farming business to BASF ahead of taking over Monsanto. The sale is a co... |
| 09.03.2018 | Everything You Need to Know About Lab-Grown Meat | One popular Bill Gates quote sums up the difficulties of predicting the future: “We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.”
Potentially massive new ... |
| 07.02.2018 | DEADLINE APPROACHING: Cast Your Vote in the AgFunder Innovation Awards | ***VOTING CLOSED***
It’s that time of year again to recognize the innovators and entrepreneurs driving the agrifood tech sector forward with the AgFunder Innovation Awards. These are peer-selected awards based on votes placed by you, our 45... |
| 29.01.2018 | Tyson spreads its protein bets with minority stake in cultured meat start-up Memphis Meats | In a statement announcing the investment (of an undisclosed sum) in Memphis Meats, Tyson Foods’ EVP corporate strategy Justin Whitmore said the move would “broaden our exposure to innovative, new ways of producing meat, especially since glo... |
| 29.01.2018 | Memphis Meats Adds Tyson to Investor List With Cargill, Gates, Branson, Musk, more | *First Published August 23, 2017. Updated January 29, 2018 to reflect new investment from Tyson Foods.
Tyson Foods‘ venture arm has joined the laundry list of well-known investors backing cultured meat developer Memphis Meats.
The San Franc... |
| 16.01.2018 | Mosa Meat CEO on clean meat, competition and disrupting a $1 trillion market | Four years ago, Mosa Meat's chief scientific officer Mark Post showcased the world's the very first clean meat burger. Made of muscle fibre produced without killing an animal, it had the texture of meat, but not the flavour or colour.
Since... |
| 02.01.2018 | Israeli Cultured Meat Startup SuperMeat Raises $3m Seed Round | SuperMeat, an Israeli cultured meat startup, has raised a $3 million seed round to develop its cultured chicken product in the first of what will likely be several funding rounds in the area of cellular agriculture this year.
Cellular agric... |
| 21.12.2017 | Cultured fish co Finless Foods aims to achieve price parity with Bluefin tuna by the end of 2019 | Co-founder and CEO Mike Selden told FoodNavigator-USA: “Initially, quantities will be limited, and we’ll be working with chefs in high-end restaurants doing some really interesting things just to spark a conversation, and get the public to... |
| 08.12.2017 | Clean meat is greener, claims Hampton Creek: ‘Animal agriculture is a relatively inefficient way to create the foods that we want’ | Speaking to FoodNavigator-USA at FOOD VISION USA in Chicago, director of cellular agriculture Eitan Fischer said growing interest in clean meat (made by culturing cells without raising or slaughtering animals) and plant-based meat, egg an... |
| 09.10.2017 | SOSV: “The future of food will be sustainable, personalized, and cellular” | SOSV is a prolific early-stage investor in agrifood tech with a unique model for supporting this growing sector. The firm topped our mid-year investor leaderboard once again for H1-2017, although it invested in less than half the number of ... |
| 05.10.2017 | Innovative Food: Startups Raise $206m to Meet Consumer Demand for Protein & Novel Ingredients | Consumer demands are changing at a faster pace than ever as our understanding of nutrition evolves.
Protein-rich foods are in particular demand, and with the meat industry responsible for more than 15% of greenhouse gas emissions, innovator... |
| 14.09.2017 | Tune in to IndieBio Accelerator’s Demo Day today | TechCrunch is excited to bring you IndieBio Accelerator‘s Demo Day today, September 14th at 3:00pm PT.
Targeting the biotech industry, the IndieBio Accelerator hosts a four-month program. IndieBio provides startups with 24/7 access to biosa... |
| 31.05.2017 | Scale is the Real Barrier for Lab-Grown Meat | When the lab-grown meat industry is fully mature, production facilities will look very similar to breweries, according to Michael Selden, cofounder of Finless Foods, an early-stage cultured fish startup.
Lab-grown meat, or cultured meat — n... |
| - | This company could take lab-grown meat mainstream thanks to a green light from the FDA | As demand for plant-based meat cools, advocates for cultivated meat, which is grown directly from animal cells, think they can target a wider consumer base.
Last fall, cultivated-meat company Upside Foods became the first in the U.S. to be ... |
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| - | Cell-Cultured Seafood Company Finless Foods Closes $34 Million In Funding | Finless Foods recently announced it raised $34 million in funding. These are the details.
Finless Foods – the first cell-cultured seafood company as well as the first to serve cell-cultured fish in the U.S. – announced the closing of its Se... |
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