| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.07.2025 | Op Ed: Harsh Amin – How Cultivated Meat Can Bolster British Food Security and Tackle Price Rise | Harsh Amin, CEO of Ivy Farm Technologies, is a stem cell scientist with a PhD from UCL and postdoctoral experience at Imperial College London. With a strong background in biotech R&D and leadership roles from start-ups to Lonza Biologic... |
| 07.04.2025 | Ivy Farm Appoints Gail Francis to Lead Commercial Efforts for Premium Cultivated Wagyu Beef | Ivy Farm Technologies has appointed Gail Francis as its new Vice President of Commercial, effective immediately. Francis brings over 30 years of experience in the global food industry, having held leadership roles in major food manufacturer... |
| 28.08.2024 | “Admirable and Important” – Meatly & Ivy Farm Respond to UK’s New Alternative Protein Innovation Centre | This morning saw the UK’s announcement of the National Alternative Protein Innovation Centre (Napic), spearheaded by the University of Leeds, with a total investment of £38 million to explore innovations in plant-based, cultivated, and ferm... |
| 12.07.2024 | Op Ed: Rich Dillon, CEO, Ivy Farm – What We Need From the New Labour Government
What does the alternative proteins sector need from the Labour government? | In the UK, a Labour government is now in power for the first time in 14 years. Change is on the horizon in terms of food policy and approvals in the country, which has just recorded its first decrease in meat production in over a decade, an... |
| 24.05.2024 | Cultivated Meat: Approvals and Prohibitions Since Singapore’s Pioneering Step in 2020
Singapore | Since Singapore became the first country to approve cultivated meat in 2020, a favorable regulatory environment has been growing in some nations while others have opted to ban the technology.
Currently, worldwide, 174 companies are developi... |
| 20.05.2024 | Icelandic Ministers Taste Ivy Farm’s Cultivated Beef During Iceland Innovation Week | The UK-based cultivated meat company Ivy Farm Technologies and the Icelandic biotechnology company ORF Genetics held a cultivated meat tasting and panel discussions at an event last week during Iceland Innovation Week.
The tasting featured ... |
| 16.05.2024 | Ivy Farm Partners with Synbio Powerlabs to Cultivate Meat At “Unprecedented” Scale | UK-based Ivy Farm Technologies announces it has signed a manufacturing agreement with Synbio Powerlabs, a Finnish leader in synthetic biology, to produce its cultivated meat products in large fermenters. According to Synbio Powerlabs, culti... |
| 11.03.2024 | BSF Enterprise and Ivy Farm Partner to Produce Cultivated Meat in China | Two UK firms, BSF Enterprise, owner of the UK clinical and cell ag company 3D Bio-Tissues (3DBT), and the cultivated meat company Ivy Farm Technologies, have partnered to fundraise, produce, and scale cultivated meat in China.
BSF Enterpris... |
| 05.02.2024 | Ivy Farm Anticipates Regulatory Approval After Creating Cultivated Meat Scotch Egg With Fortnum & Mason | The UK’s Ivy Farm Technologies has partnered with London’s high-end department store Fortnum & Mason to develop what is said to be the world’s first scotch egg containing cultivated meat.
Scotch eggs are a traditional British snack cons... |
| 21.11.2023 | Ivy Farm Technologies: “Fighting Climate Change with Cultivated Meat is a Global Opportunity” | Rich Dillon is the CEO of Ivy Farm Technologies, a leading cultivated meat company based in Oxford, UK. Ivy Farm describes itself as a “disruptive food-tech startup on a mission to create real meat in a radically more sustainable way and to... |
| 06.11.2023 | People moves: Foodpanda CEO departs amid rumors, Syngenta has a new boss, Post CEO on sudden medical leave | Stay up to speed with the latest people moves in agrifood and tech with AgFunderNews’ monthly column of the industry’s biggest leadership changes. In the last month, Foodpanda’s longtime CEO departed amid a bit of drama, Syngenta Group and ... |
| 06.07.2023 | Ivy Farm and Finnebrogue Partner to Bring Cultivated Wagyu Beef to the UK | Cultivated meat company Ivy Farm Technologies and UK food producer Finnebrogue have announced what they claim is a “world-first” partnership to develop and sell cultivated Wagyu beef burgers in the UK — once cultivated meat gets the regulat... |
| 03.05.2023 | Data snapshot: Agrifoodtech funding in Europe slumped 46% in 2022, but there were some bright spots | Data snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
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| 08.03.2023 | UK Women tech founders are taking a bigger share – 24 percent capital increase in 2022 compared to 2021 | Many studies support the fact that there are numerous gaps between men and women, particularly when it comes to ICT. Whether it is the number of girls who receive a STEM education or when it comes to funding of women founders of IT startups... |
| 15.09.2022 | UK alternative protein: UK could be leader with faster regulation, more funding for cell ag | All eyes are on the next country in the world to approve and regulate the sale of alternative meat products produced through cell-culturing techniques.
Singapore was the first after it gave Eat Just the go-ahead to sell its cultivated chick... |
| 01.09.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Planted’s $72m for whole-cut ‘chicken,’ genomics startup Pattern snags $35m | Swiss alt-protein startup Planted raised Series B funding to expand its line of whole-cut plant-based chicken items. Agtech and genomics startup Pattern also announced Series B funding, while carbon-neutral milk company closed a Series A ro... |
| 31.08.2022 | UK’s Ivy Farm opens the “largest cultivated meat pilot plant” in Europe | Ivy Farm, a cultivated meat startup in the UK, recently unveiled what it claims to be Europe’s largest cultivated meat pilot plant in Oxford, a city just outside of the capital London.
The food-tech startup, which has raised over $30 millio... |
| 04.08.2022 | Ivy Farm & BCG Release Report on Cultivated Meat in the UK: “We Need to Act Now to Truly Realise its Full Potential” | A report by Boston Consulting Group and the UK’s first cultivated meat producer Ivy Farm has outlined the ways in which the UK cultivated meat industry could scale up and reach its full potential.
It has been estimated that cultivated meat ... |
| 15.06.2022 | Data Snapshot: European climate investors are under-investing in agrifoodtech | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
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| 13.06.2022 | “A Missed Opportunity”: Alt Protein Leaders Respond to UK Government Food Strategy Published Today | The UK Government Food Strategy was published today, highlighting how sustainable and alternative proteins can play a major role in British food production. However, the report falls short and has been labelled as a disappointment to the UK... |
| 08.06.2022 | Data Snapshot: eGrocery & alt-protein ruled seed deals in 2021. Times have changed. | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
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| 23.05.2022 | UK Politicians Consider More Agile Cultivated Meat Regulations | On May 18, cultivated meat startup Ivy Farm Technologies and the Good Food Institute Europe (GFI) hosted an event at the UK Parliament to discuss cultivated meat regulations.
The organisations argued for more investment in cultivated meat r... |
| 09.12.2021 | Heck in Early Stage Talks With Ivy Farm to Bring Cultivated Sausages to UK Supermarkets | Heck Foods, specialist in gourmet sausages including a pea-based range and a veg-based line, widely available in mainstream UK retail, is in talks with cultured fat producer Ivy Farm for a partnership that could see cultivated Heck sausages... |
| 04.10.2021 | UK Government Must Embrace Cultured Meat or Miss Out on £2.1Billion and 16,500 Jobs | A study, commissioned by cell-cultured meat company Ivy Farm Technologies and conducted by researchers from Oxford Economics, has found that cell-cultured meat could add £2.1bn to the UK economy by 2030, along with creating 16,500 jobs. Bas... |
| 31.05.2021 | British Startup Ivy Farm Says It Plans To Bring Cell-Based Pork Sausages To Market By 2023 | 3 Mins Read
Ivy Farm Technologies, a spinout of Oxford University, wants to become the first British firm to commercialise cultured meat and says it will debut its cell-based pork sausages by 2023. Currently raising funds for its pilot R&am... |
| 18.05.2021 | Ivy Farm to Bring First Cultured Sausages to UK Supermarkets by 2023 & Produce 12,000 Tonnes of Cultured Pork Per Year | Ivy Farm Technologies aims to become the first commercial producer of sustainable, cultured meat in the UK. Co-founder Russ Tucker, originally from a family of butchers, says the startup plans to produce cultured sausages for supermarkets a... |
