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News and Trends 28 Sep 2022

Spoonshot on how foodtech can reduce food waste

With the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste just around the corner, Labiotech caught up with Spoonshot co-founder and CEO Kishan Vasani to find out how the foodtech sector can tackle food waste. Spoonshot is a software platform for food and beverage professionals that delivers category intelligence by leveraging data from more […]

September 28, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 27 Sep 2022

Watch: Scottish biotech startup looking to sustainable omega-3 production

Established in 2016, Edinburgh-headquartered MiAlgae says there is a global threat to oceans caused by overfishing to supply omega-3 oil for human and animal consumption. This prompted the development of a solution through the circular economy. Labiotech visited the company recently to find out more about its operations. Using its biotech platform, MiAlgae uses co-products […]

September 27, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 27 Sep 2022

EU Agriculture Ministers meet in Prague to discuss sustainability and food security

At an informal gathering of EU Agriculture Ministers, food security and the role of European agriculture and sustainable global food production were the main discussion points. At the meeting held in Prague, the EU agriculture ministers also agreed that the time is now to act in a coordinated way to maximize sustainable increases in agricultural […]

September 27, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 27 Sep 2022

Capagro launches second fund of €200M to support promising European startups

The most promising startups in the European FoodTech and AgTech sectors will be supported by funding from Capagro. The European AgriTech is building on the success of its first fund five years ago and is now launching its second with a fund of €200 million ($193 million). The launch of the new fund, Capagro Agri-Food […]

September 27, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

Interview 27 Sep 2022

Europe’s first lab-grown fish company Bluu Seafood is aiming for sustainability

Overfishing is a global issue that negatively impacts the ecosystem and our access to fish protein. One solution to overfishing is producing fish products in the lab from harvested animal cells. This can help feed the world while using up fewer resources and without endangering wild fish populations. As the world’s population continues to grow, […]

September 27, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Omnia Ibrahim

Best in Biotech 21 Sep 2022

The 5 hottest biotech companies making waves in Israel

Despite its small population, Israel hosts a high concentration of startups. Here’s a collection of the hottest biotech companies raising big cash in the Middle Eastern nation. Historically, Israel’s biotech industry has been viewed as secondary to its thriving medtech scene. However, in spite of a population of just 9 million people, the nation has […]

September 21, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

ANINA Transforms Ugly veg into Artistic Ready Meal 2 002

News and Trends 21 Sep 2022

Anina – reshaping the future of food by upcycling rejected vegetables

Two industrial design students were so concerned by the huge amounts of perfectly good fresh produce being wasted, they spent two years working on a healthy solution. Esti Brantz and Meydan Levy noticed that fruit and veg was getting tossed in the trash due to cosmetic reasons such as size, shape, color differences, or […]

September 21, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 20 Sep 2022

Texture of meat alternatives vastly improved by platform creating alternative active proteins

An Israeli start-up is using technology to clean up labels in products mimicking meat using veggie protein. Meala FoodTech Ltd using a platform to create functionally active proteins designed to replace 1:1 methylcellulose and other hydrocolloids and gums widely used in meat replacements as binding and gelling agents. Meala FoodTech says its multifunctional proteins vastly […]

September 20, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 20 Sep 2022

Fooditive creating bee-free honey using precision fermentation biotech

Dutch plant-based ingredients company Fooditive is scaling up existing products and introducing the latest developments: LowSalt & Bee-free-Honey. “We feel like the next chapter of this journey has just begun. With the support from our shareholders, clients, partners and our team we are focused to increase our impact and make a fundamental change in the […]

September 20, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 19 Sep 2022

Taiwan-based Anyong Biotechnology first to employ seafood stem-cell freezing

Anyong Biotechnology is the first company in its region to use the most advanced freezing technology in Asia, it was announced today (September 19). The aquatic food processing company based in Taiwan has employed Cells Alive System (CAS) technology from Japan. Originally a medical-grade technology for freezing stem cells, Anyong says CAS is highly praised […]

September 19, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 8 Sep 2022

Onego Bio secures extra funding for egg white production technology

Onego Bio is a biotech spin-off from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The company uses a commercially proven Trichoderma technology to solve environmental problems associated with eggs, one of the world’s most used animal proteins. Onego Bio said its sustainable and cost-effective precision fermentation method produces ovalbumin, the most abundant egg white protein, and […]

September 8, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 8 Sep 2022

From tobacco to table – cell-cultured meat venture receives $10M funding to scale-up production

Cell cultured meat could now be produced on a broader scale thanks to funding of $10 million invested in the Israeli start-up BioBetter Ltd. Food-tech BioBetter Ltd., received the significant injection of capital in its series A round of funding which was led by Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) with additional investment from Milk and Honey […]

September 8, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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Spoonshot on how foodtech can reduce food waste

Watch: Scottish biotech startup looking to sustainable omega-3 production

EU Agriculture Ministers meet in Prague to discuss sustainability and food security

Capagro launches second fund of €200M to support promising European startups

Europe’s first lab-grown fish company Bluu Seafood is aiming for sustainability

The 5 hottest biotech companies making waves in Israel

Anina – reshaping the future of food by upcycling rejected vegetables

Texture of meat alternatives vastly improved by platform creating alternative active proteins

Fooditive creating bee-free honey using precision fermentation biotech

Taiwan-based Anyong Biotechnology first to employ seafood stem-cell freezing

Onego Bio secures extra funding for egg white production technology

From tobacco to table – cell-cultured meat venture receives $10M funding to scale-up production

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