Teaming up with natural microbes for smarter food production
Location: United States, New York
Employees: 1-10
Investors 2
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Mentions in press and media 7
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| 10.10.2017 | Cultured Meat Will Cost Startups $150m-$370m (and Take At Least 4 More Years) to Bring to Market | There is a reason that high profile investors and entrepreneurs — and therefore media outlets globally — are getting increasingly excited about alternative protein-based food sources. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates tha... |
| 09.10.2017 | SOSV: “The future of food will be sustainable, personalized, and cellular” | SOSV is a prolific early-stage investor in agrifood tech with a unique model for supporting this growing sector. The firm topped our mid-year investor leaderboard once again for H1-2017, although it invested in less than half the number of ... |
| 02.12.2016 | The Technical.ly Brooklyn holiday gift guide | Buy your family gifts that are both inventive and unique, and also help the local economy this year. Here at Technical.ly Brooklyn, we’ve had the privilege of covering some really interesting people doing wonderfully cool stuff. There’s the... |
| 12.09.2016 | Cultured coffee… the beginning of a new fermented foods revolution? | This is the vision of Brooklyn-based start-up Afineur, which has combined its co-founders’ expertise in flavor chemistry and microbiology to create the first ‘cultured’ coffee (in which bitter notes have been eliminated by microbes during... |
| 05.07.2016 | A Closer Look at Cellular Agriculture and the Processes Defining It | Editor’s Note: Cellular agriculture is a method of agricultural production enabling the growth of meat, eggs, and leather in cell culture rather than raising and slaughtering livestock. Next week, scientists and producers spearheading cellu... |
| 27.08.2015 | This team is using microbes to make a new kind of coffee | Microbes are having a moment. And one Red Hook and Manhattan-based team is bringing these lil’ guys to bear in a new realm: coffee. “We’re targeting specific microbes that are going to chew away specific molecules in the coffee, like those ... |
| 20.08.2014 | A Synthetic Bio Startup Is Making Cat Poop Coffee Without the Poop (or the Cat) | Among coffee enthusiasts, kopi luwak, which is made from beans that have been partially digested and defecated by an Indonesian wild cat, is often held up as the best brew in the world. A pound of good kopi luwak beans can fetch $500, if yo... |