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| 06.03.2025 | Solar Foods: Finland Govt Pumps $10.6M in Startup to Build Giant Gas Protein Factory | 6 Mins Read Finnish gas fermentation firm Solar Foods has received €10M ($10.6M) in funding from Business Finland to help build Factory 02, which would produce 12,000 tons of Solein protein annually.
To accelerate the development of its ind... |
| 07.02.2025 | A Taste of Nostalgia and Innovation: The Sweet and Savory Trends of 2025 | In 2025, two culinary stories emerge from the heart of Europe, each with its own flavor and flair. One is a nostalgic return, a sweet treat that dances on the tongue. The other is a bold leap into the future, a savory snack that challenges ... |
| 07.02.2025 | Solar Foods Edges Closer to Regulatory Approval for Air-Based Protein in the EU | Finland’s Solar Foods is moving closer to regulatory approval in the EU after addressing inquiries from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) regarding the safety of its air-based protein, Solein.
The company submitted its novel food ap... |
| 06.02.2025 | KelpEat Introduces Crackers Featuring Solein Fermented Protein and Eu-Farmed Seaweed | Italian algae startup KelpEat has announced the launch of a new high-protein snack made with Solein®, a microbial protein developed by Finnish food tech company Solar Foods. The crackers, which also incorporate EU-farmed seaweed, will be pr... |
| 13.01.2025 | Standing Ovation Partners With Ajinomoto Foods Europe to Produce Animal-Free Caseins at Scale | Standing Ovation, a French biotech company specialising in precision fermentation applied to dairy proteins, has announced a long-term strategic partnership with Ajinomoto Foods Europe (AFE).
AFE is an affiliate of Japan’s Ajinomoto Group w... |
| 20.12.2024 | Voima Ventures closes €100M+ Fund III for Nordic and Baltic deeptech startups | Voima Ventures has announced the final closing of its €100 million+ Fund III, an Article 8-compliant deep tech fund. Based in both Helsinki and Stockholm, the fund has already begun deploying capital with 8 finalised investments from its fi... |
| 18.11.2024 | Happy Plant Protein bags €1.8M to disrupt plant protein market with local, low-cost production | One of the biggest challenges for plant protein manufacturing is creating products at a competitive price point and scale. But now Happy Plant Protein, a new company spinning out of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a n... |
| 31.10.2024 | Enifer Breaks New Ground as First Nordic Firm to Seek Novel Food Approval for Mycoprotein | Finnish biotech company Enifer announces that it has applied for regulatory approval from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to sell its flagship ingredient, PEKILO, in the EU. The company claims to be the first Nordic company to app... |
| 26.10.2024 | The Rise of Alternative Proteins: Finland and Beyond | The world is changing. Our food systems are under pressure. Climate change, population growth, and health concerns are pushing us to rethink what we eat. Enter alternative proteins. They are not just a trend; they are a necessity. Finland i... |
| 25.10.2024 | Finnish Alternative Protein Firms Secure €10M for Collaborative R&D Projects From Business Finland | Business Finland has granted two Finnish projects — FoodID and FinBioFAB — 10 million euros in R&D funding to create alternative proteins and materials through research collaboration.
The Finnish projects were accepted into the Global C... |
| 12.09.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: New climate tech deals in Europe, banks urged to stop funding livestock | The latest beef in the livestock sector is around big banks funding it. This week, an open letter went out to JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America saying its lending practices conflicted with its climate commitments.
Europe was full deals for c... |
| 03.09.2024 | Solar Foods Earns Self-Affirmed GRAS Status in the US for Solein CO2 Protein | 5 Mins Read Finland’s Solar Foods, which makes Solein protein from air, has obtained self-affirmed GRAS status in the US, taking it a step closer to commercialisation in the country.
Solar Foods is inching closer to bringing its Solein prot... |
| 18.07.2024 | NovoNutrients: Pioneering Sustainable Protein Production by Transforming CO2 Emissions | NovoNutrients, a forward-thinking biotech company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, has recently secured a significant milestone in its journey towards revolutionizing the protein industry. With a successful Series A funding round rai... |
| 11.07.2024 | NovoNutrients Closes $18M Series A to Make Protein from CO2 for People & Pets | 4 Mins Read US alternative protein startup NovoNutrients has raised $18M in a Series A funding round ahead of opening its pilot facility, with a renewed focus on humans and pets.
The $18M Series A round was led by Australia’s Woodside Energ... |
| 04.06.2024 | Rays of innovation: 10 European startups shaping the future of solar power | - |
| 13.05.2024 | VTT Study Finds Mycoprotein a Sustainable Superfood & Next-Level Nutrient Powerhouse | Research by a team of scientists at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland shows that mycoprotein is a valuable ingredient: it offers digestible proteins and, unlike meat, dietary fiber.
These findings are relevant because various studies... |
| 18.04.2024 | 2023 GFI Reports: Cultivated Meat and Fermentation Industries Growing Despite Drop in Investments | The Good Food Institute has released the 2023 State of the Industry Reports for the alt protein industry.
These annual reports provide a global analysis of each sector’s commercial landscape, investments, scientific progress, and government... |
| 22.02.2022 | Solar Foods Nets €10 Million Investment For World’s “Most Sustainable Protein” Production Facility | 3 Mins Read
Finnish food tech Solar Foods has scooped a €10 million investment from the Pharmacy Pension Fund of Finland to create, amongst other things, a commercial production line for the company’s proprietary “thin air” Solein protein. ... |
| 17.02.2022 | Solar Foods Signs €10M Investment Agreement for “Most Sustainable Protein in the World” Production | Solar Foods – the food tech creating protein “from thin air” – has received a €10 million investment boost from the Pharmacy Pension Fund of Finland. The agreement will see investment in the Solar Foods’ Factory 01 facility which will house... |
| 09.12.2020 | British Biotech To Scale Fishmeal Made From Recycled Industrial Emissions After US$3M E.U. Grant | 3 Mins Read
U.K. biotech firm Deep Branch is set to scale-up its sustainable animal feed made from recycled carbon. After securing a €2.5 million (US$3.03 million) grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC), the company says it will b... |
| 08.12.2020 | Solar Foods Gets US$5.2M Grant From Business Finland To Commercialise Air Protein | 1
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Finnish food tech Solar Foods has been granted €4.3 million (US$5.21 million) in financing from Business Finland, a government organisation supporting innovation funding and investment. The financing will support the s... |
| 03.12.2020 | Finland: “Protein From Thin Air” by Solar Foods Gets Commercial Go-Ahead | The Finnish foodtech startup Solar Foods produces nutrition from thin air. What sounds like science fiction is expected to be ready for the market by end of 2022, as the €8.6 million research project has now been greenlighted.
In September ... |
| 21.01.2020 | Meet Xenobots The World’s First “Living Robot” | The groundbreaking Xenobots were created by a team from Tufts University and the University of Vermont. Douglas Blackiston, Tufts University, Author provided (No reuse) |
| 16.12.2019 | «Работать с государством — престижно» и ещё три наблюдения о финских стартапах Статьи редакции | Бонус: небольшой чек-лист для российских компаний, которые решили выходить в Европу.
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| 16.12.2019 | 1,5 milioane dolari pentru startup-uri, de la 15 tineri angel investors | Fondul european de investiții de capital de risc Atomico distribuie câte 100.000 de dolari unui număr de 15 tineri angel investors, care vor avea libertatea să finanțeze orice fel de startup vor ei, scrie Sifted.eu.
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| 13.12.2019 | Atomico launches second angel programme | European venture capital fund Atomico has announced the results of its first angel programme and launched its second cohort, with 15 new angels. Each will receive $100,000 to invest in early-stage startups of their choice.
The scheme, which... |
| 02.12.2019 | The Future Of Food: We’re Now Making Protein From Thin Air | 1
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One of the biggest ways we can reduce our individual environmental impact and boost our health is to reduce our reliance on traditional livestock farmed meat. Though the concept of plant-based meat still remains foreig... |
| 29.10.2019 | Why India Urgently Needs A Sustainable Protein Revolution | 1
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India will become the most populous country, the largest economy and experience the greatest rise in meat consumption. We need to think more about how India will eat meat in the next 30 years and what that means for th... |
| 18.10.2019 | WATCH: What role will microscopic microbial factories play in the future of protein? | It’s too early to write off farm animals just yet, says Darren Streiler, investment director at ADM Ventures (ADM’s corporate venturing arm, which has invested in Geltor, Perfect Day and Sustainable Bioproducts), but this technology ... |
| 02.10.2019 | Forget animals, animal cells, and plants, says Air Protein: The most sustainable 'meat' is made from microbes… and thin air | Some companies such as Motif FoodWorks use synthetic biology to write DNA sequences that can be inserted into microorganisms to ‘instruct’ them to produce animal proteins; others such as Sustainable Bioproducts have identified microbes ... |
| 03.07.2019 | Industry Pioneer, Educator and Bestselling Author Olivia Fox Cabane on the Future of Food | Courtesy of Olivia Fox Cabane
Olivia Fox Cabane is the organiser of the Alternative Protein Summit and is recognised for her industry landscapes mapping out foodtech’s most innovative companies, an activity with which we at vegconomist are ... |
| 24.01.2019 | This Startup Is Making Food Mostly Out of Air and Electricity | A Finnish tech startup has managed to produce food mainly out of electricity and air, and is now looking to enter the market by 2021.
Solar Foods, based out of the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and the Lappeenranta University of ... |
| 13.06.2018 | The Revolution in Food and Biomass Production Will See Co2 Used to Make Proteins | Editor’s Note: Michael Carus is a physicist, and founder of the nova-Institute, a private institute offering science-based consulting and research services to clients in the bio-based economy, including agrochemical, food, plastics, and con... |
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| - | Nordic Foodtech Venture Capital closes first fund at €42 million | Investing explicitly in the future of food, Helsinki-based Nordic Foodtech VC has closed its first fund at €42 million. As the name might suggest, Nordic Foodtech will be investing in Nordic and Baltic early-stage companies working in and a... |
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