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Startup Scout 19 Dec 2022

Green Bioactives grows medicines in plant cells

Though plants may hold the key to new, effective medicines, sourcing these compounds sustainably is difficult. Green Bioactives devises eco-friendly ways to produce plant-derived drugs via plant cell cultures. For…

December 19, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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More News! 30 Nov 2022

Nutri-tech startup, Novella, grows botanical ingredients without using the plants

Nutri-tech start-up Novella, Ltd. will start growing botanical ingredients while leaving the whole plant out of the equation through nutrient cultivation. This original platform in the plant world will help…

November 30, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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…

November 29, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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,…

November 10, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

Best in Biotech 28 Sep 2022

The 5 hottest private biotechs in South Africa

Biotechnology companies are sprouting in South Africa’s maturing life sciences industry. We’ve listed five private biotech companies that have turned heads in the last few years. South Africa boasts the…

September 28, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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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…

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…

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.…

September 20, 2022 - 3 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…

September 8, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 8 Sep 2022

Cultivated Biosciences raises $1.5M to take fats to the next frontier

Cultivated Biosciences, an ingredient startup biotech company founded by Swiss entrepreneurs Tomas Turner and Dimitri Zogg, has just raised a $1.5M pre-seed round. The funding will enable the growing team…

September 8, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 26 Jul 2022

Israeli foodtech company develops zero-waste plant protein extraction

A novel, waste-free protein extraction method that completes the sustainability loop through the sustainability practice of upcycling has been created by Acre, Israel-Gavan Technologies, Ltd. The foodtech start-up supports the…

July 26, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 20 Jul 2022

Plant-based nylon addressing urgent need for sustainable materials

Global brands need to take action by using sustainable materials with traceable and transparent supply chains, the CEO of a US biotech company says. Genomatica (Geno) alongside longtime collaborator Aquafil…

July 20, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 24 Jun 2022

Stramsen Biotech to look at 11 plant-based drug candidates

Houston-based biotechnology firm Stramsen Biotech Inc. has announced 11 drug candidates for clinical development. Kefas Mugittu, co-CEO, made the announcement of the plant-based medical candidates. The company said the drugs…

June 24, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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