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News and Trends 29 Nov 2022

Mycotechnology and IFF join forces in Europe to create better food system

Mycotechnology, a company using mycelia, the roots of mushrooms, and IFF have formed a partnership to co-develop alternative proteins. The two companies have already partnered in the U.S. and the new collaboration in Europe, they say, reflects their shared commitment of bringing a better food system and ‘next-generation’ food and drink products to the European […]

November 29, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 16 Nov 2022

Foodtech company, Wilk, creates first cultured milk fat, cell-based yogurt

Israeli company, Wilk, has today (November 16) announced the successful development of the world’s first yogurt developed with cell-cultured milk fat. The company is a developer of cell-cultured human and animal milk and milk components and this hybrid product has been validated by external laboratories, which Wilk says confirms it meets the necessary chemical and […]

November 16, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 15 Nov 2022

Bel Group and Standing Ovation partner on cheese proteins

Dairy giant Bel Group and start-up Standing Ovation are partnering on incorporating casein milk protein into Bel’s alternative cheese offerings. In September, Bel acquired an equity stake in Standing Ovation. Standing Ovation has developed a precision fermentation process that produces caseins of non-animal origin. These proteins are identical to those present in milk. Standing Ovation’s […]

November 15, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 15 Nov 2022

Fooditive takes world first bee-free honey a step closer

Large scale production trials of the first bee-free honey will start in the New Year thanks to Dutch-based ingredients company, Fooditive. The process of mass-producing a bio-identical honey means that the need to intensively farm honeybees will be eliminated and Fooditive aims to beat a scalable, provenanced supply. Not only will it provide the benefits […]

November 15, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 14 Nov 2022

Eden Bio raises £1m to boost AI protein yields

Eden Bio, a U.K.-based biotech using machine learning to increase protein yield, has raised £1 million ($1.17 million) from a seed investment round. The company said this strengthens its R&D capacity and ability to expand the underlying machine-learning platform over the coming years. By using artificial intelligence to genetically optimize microorganism strains, the company improves […]

November 14, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

More News! 10 Nov 2022

Novo Nordisk supports Plant2Food platform with €27M funding

Novo Nordisk Foundation will support new open collaborative platform, Plant2Food, to accelerate the development of plant-based foods with up to €27 million ($26.9m) over the next five years. The platform, Plant2Food, will include researchers and companies collaborating and exploring complex challenges within plant and food science and sharing new knowledge across sectors – without taking […]

November 10, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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More News! 9 Nov 2022

Better Juice launches naturally converting fruit juice sugars to prebiotics

A new site housing technology to naturally turn the composition of fruit juice sugars including sucrose, glucose and fructose into better-for-you prebiotics has been opened by Better Juice Ltd. The Israeli sugar-reduction startup launched its first full-capacity manufacturing plant for full commercial production of sugar-reducing immobilized enzymes. The new facility, the company says, will allow […]

November 9, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 26 Oct 2022

Singapore approves gas fermentation-powered protein

A food ingredient developed by the Finnish startup Solar Foods has earned its first market approval in Singapore. The product is brewed using microorganisms fed with carbon dioxide and electricity — a more sustainable alternative to conventional animal protein. Increasing numbers of fermentation-derived food products are reaching the market, including ingredients developed by Motif FoodWorks, […]

October 26, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Forsea Foods is relieving bottleneck in seafood supply starting with eel meat

News and Trends 26 Oct 2022

Forsea Foods raises $5.2M in bid to redress destruction of marine life

With eels becoming an endangered species and demand for its meat continuing to increase, the Israeli food-tech startup Forsea Foods has raised $5.2 million in a seed round to address the issue. Forsea Foods Ltd. is the first company to use organoid technology for culturing seafood products. Its aim is to redress the destruction of […]

October 26, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

Best in Biotech 18 Oct 2022

The hottest private biotech companies in Australia

Australia has a strong base in biotechnology, with many incentives for R&D and commercialization. Here are the top five private Australian biotech companies that have recently showcased the country’s credentials in the sector. Australia is a highly developed nation in the Southern Hemisphere. Famous for its huge wool trade and iron ore wealth, the country […]

October 18, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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Startup Scout 13 Oct 2022

Boston Bioworks helps precision fermentation startups scale up

Precision fermentation startups have few options when looking for ways to scale up their technology. The newly launched scaling service provider Boston Bioworks aims to address this bottleneck. In the food protein industry, sustainability, climate change and animal welfare are a growing concern for many consumers, leading to soaring interest in alternative protein. This wide […]

October 13, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 5 Oct 2022

Big Idea Ventures announces cohort of 17 start-ups

Big Idea Ventures has revealed its latest accelerator cohort. Seventeen early-stage startups were selected for pre-seed investment as part of Big Idea Ventures’ bi-annual new protein accelerator program. Investments were made through the firm’s three offices in New York, Paris and Singapore and the firm’s first fund – New Protein Fund I ($50 million+). “The […]

October 5, 2022 - 7 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Mycotechnology and IFF join forces in Europe to create better food system

Foodtech company, Wilk, creates first cultured milk fat, cell-based yogurt

Bel Group and Standing Ovation partner on cheese proteins

Fooditive takes world first bee-free honey a step closer

Eden Bio raises £1m to boost AI protein yields

Novo Nordisk supports Plant2Food platform with €27M funding

Better Juice launches naturally converting fruit juice sugars to prebiotics

Singapore approves gas fermentation-powered protein

Forsea Foods raises $5.2M in bid to redress destruction of marine life

The hottest private biotech companies in Australia

Boston Bioworks helps precision fermentation startups scale up

Big Idea Ventures announces cohort of 17 start-ups

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