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| 05.05.2026 | Biosphere lands Pentagon funding to build portable “protein from air” bioreactors | Biosphere—a California-based startup developing UV-sterilized bioreactors it claims can slash biomanufacturing costs—has won a grant from the US Dept of Defense (DoD) totaling $9 million over 3.5 years to fund the development of portable bi... |
| 19.07.2025 | Gas fermentation startup Novonutrients calls it quits, seeks buyer for assets: ‘The technology’s potential remains unchanged’ | California-based gas fermentation company NovoNutrients has entered the Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors (ABC) process, which serves as an alternative to bankruptcy.
The move follows news that Austrian ‘protein from air’ startup Arke... |
| 05.06.2025 | Breaking: Gas fermentation ‘protein from air’ startup Arkeon files for insolvency… ‘Every failure teaches us something new’ | Vienna-based gas fermentation startup Arkeon has filed for insolvency.
In a LinkedIn post Thursday, cofounder and CEO Dr. Gregor Tegl explained: “While this is a difficult moment, I am incredibly grateful for everyone who believed in our vi... |
| 15.03.2025 | From Air to Aisle: The Future of Food with Solein Protein | In a world where food security hangs by a thread, innovation is the lifeline. Enter Fazer, a Finnish food giant, ready to revolutionize our snacking habits. At the Future Food-Tech event in San Francisco, they unveiled their latest creation... |
| 14.03.2025 | From Air to Aisle: Fazer’s Trials Gas-Fermented Protein Snack & Drinks | 4 Mins Read Finnish food giant Fazer has teased a snack bar and two protein oat milk beverages made using Solar Foods’s fermentation-derived Solein protein.
How about some CO2 in your protein shake?
Fazer is giving attendees at Future Food-... |
| 15.01.2025 | Can gas fermentation deliver on its green promise for food and feed? In conversation with Calysta | Using gases instead of purified sugars as a feedstock for fermentation can potentially cut operating costs and reduce pressure on arable land. So is gas fermentation the next big thing in biomanufacturing, or does it have limited scope?
Whi... |
| 04.12.2024 | Farmless Secures €1M EU Grant to Validate its “Dramatically Efficient” Landless Protein Production | Dutch fermentation startup Farmless has secured a €1 million grant from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
Farmless produces functional proteins with a complete amino acid profile for the F&B industry. Its air-based fermenta... |
| 20.10.2024 | The Rise of AgriFoodTech: A New Era of Sustainable Innovation | The world of AgriFoodTech is buzzing. It’s a landscape ripe with innovation, where sustainability meets technology. Companies are racing to transform how we produce and consume food. This week, the headlines overflowed with exciting develop... |
| 16.10.2024 | Liberation Labs to Advance Precision Fermentation Facility with $3.5M Fundraise | US biomanufacturing company Liberation Labs has raised $3.5 million via a Secured Promissory Note (“Note”), including a $2.0 million subscription from the VC firm Agronomics Limited (LSE: ANIC). With this note, Agronomics’ total investment ... |
| 26.09.2024 | Researchers Are Using Baker’s Yeast to Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Protein & Folate | 4 Mins Read Scientists have discovered a way to turn gases into yeast that contains more protein than beef and enough folate to meet your daily requirements.
What if acetate and carbon dioxide could help you meet your daily nutritional need... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 03.04.2024 | Air Protein Named Number One FoodTech Company by TIME and Statista | Bay Area company featured in TIME and Statista’s 2024 inaugural listing. SAN LEANDRO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, April 3, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Air Protein, a pioneer in the production of air-based ingredients without the use of farmla... |
| 11.03.2024 | TIME’s Top GreenTech Companies of 2024 Recognizes The Better Meat Co., Rebellyous Foods, Prime Roots & More | TIME Magazine together with Statista, a leading statistics portal, recently unveiled America’s Top GreenTech Companies in 2024, recognizing 250 firms leading the charge in sustainability and environmental stewardship.
Among these, FoodTech ... |
| 27.12.2023 | What were the top 15 foodtech deals of 2023? | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company is AgFunder.]
Foodtech investment followed a similar trajectory to other tech sectors in 2023, with a dramatic drop off in funding from the heady days of 2021 and early 2022.
Funding for eGrocery—th... |
| 27.12.2023 | Еда из воздуха и стейк без мяса: фудтех-стартапы и их разработки | В предыдущем материале мы рассказали о технологиях 3D-печати пищи и альтернативному кофе без кофе. Но некоторые идеи фудтех-стартапов кажутся реализацией фантазий научных фантастов, настолько необычными они кажутся. О некоторых из них — в э... |
| 24.07.2023 | Air-Based Proteins Market to Exceed $100M: Highlighting 5 Prominent Players | The global air-based foods market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 11.7% to reach a value of US$ 100 million by the end of 2032, as consumers and producers look increasingly towards sustainable proteins. According to FACT. MR, initially, ai... |
| 18.05.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: GoodLeaf Farms snags $78m, Prime Roots raises $30m, Miso Robotics gets new investment | This week, Prime Roots raised funding for its mycelium-based take on deli meats and GoodLeaf Farms raked in funding to expand across Canada. Elsewhere, restaurant-tech startup Incentivio scored new funding, a South African bank took a stake... |
| 18.05.2023 | Brief: ADM teams up with Air Protein to help scale novel food production platform | ADM has entered a strategic development agreement with Air Protein, a startup seeking to decouple food production from agricultural land by using carbon dioxide, rather than sugar, to fuel its microbial fermentation platform.
Under the agre... |
| 09.03.2022 | Data Snapshot: Female founders in agrifoodtech have steadily multiplied since turn of century | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
Almost without exception, the number of agrifoodtech startups with women founders has steadily increase... |
| 08.03.2022 | IWD 2022: Celebrating the Queens Of Alt Protein Who Are Forging The Future Of Food | 166
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The two biggest plant-based protein startups in the world are run by men. The majority of the rising cell-based protein startups are also run by men, alongside most of the vegan investment groups that fund them... |
| 22.11.2021 | Purpose At Work: How Unreasonable Collaborates With Barclay’s To Give Businesses An ‘Unreasonable’ Advantage | Purpose At Work: How The Unreasonable Group with Barclays PHOTO PROVIDED BY Unreasonable Group |
| 01.03.2021 | The Meatless Mafia: Four Companies Revolutionizing The Future Of Food | Lisa Dyson, CEO of Air Protein (top left), Eben Bayer, CEO of Atlast Food (top right) Pat Brown, CEO ... [+] of Impossible Foo (bottom left), Ryan Bethencourt, CEO of Wild Earth (bottom right) Air Protein, Atlast Food Co., Impossible Foods,... |
| 25.02.2021 | Agtech CVC: ADM Ventures on the many ways corporations can invest in innovators | This interview is part of a series on agrifoodtech corporate VC investment strategies and insights. The series is produced in collaboration with the OnRamp Agriculture Conference, which brings together the agriculture and food industries’ l... |
| 28.01.2021 | Unreasonable Collective’s First Investment: A Startup Making ‘Air-Based’ Meat | In October, Unreasonable Group launched a co-investment club for accredited investors to focus on Unreasonable alumni. |
| 14.01.2021 | Daily funding roundup - January 13th, 2021 | Brace raised $15.7; Bryte secured $24M; Dynamics landed $60M; Webflow secured $140M
Blend: Blend is a San Francisco-based digital lending platform. Blend has raised $300 million in Series G funding, including from Tiger Global Management an... |
| 12.01.2021 | Air Protein Raises $32M in Series A Funding | Air Protein, a Berkeley, California-based maker of meat made from elements of the air, raised $32M in Series A funding.
The round was led by ADM Ventures, Barclays, and GV (formerly Google Ventures). Unreasonable Collective, an invitation o... |
| 09.01.2021 | Air Protein Bags US$32M In Series A To Commercialise Its Climate-Friendly Meat | 17 1
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Air Protein has secured US$32 million in its latest Series A funding round, which will go towards continued product development towards commercial launch. The Californian food tech is among the few startups pionee... |
| 08.01.2021 | USA: Air Protein Announces $32 Million Series A Financing | Dr. Lisa Dyson ©Air Protein
Air Protein, a pioneer in the production of meat from elements of the air, today announce the closing of a $32 million Series A round. Led by founder and CEO Dr. Lisa Dyson, Air Protein will use the funding to la... |
| 08.01.2021 | USA: Air Protein Announces $32 Million Series A Financing | Air Protein, a pioneer in the production of meat from elements of the air, today announce the closing of a $32 million Series A round. Led by founder and CEO Dr. Lisa Dyson, Air Protein will use the funding to launch an innovative R&D l... |
| 07.01.2021 | Air Protein raises $32m Series A to make ‘meat’ out of the ether | You may have seen a magician pull a bouquet of flowers out of thin air, but what about protein? A Pleasanton, California startup is trying to do just that with a fresh $32 million round of funding led by ADM Ventures, Barclays, and Google-a... |
| 07.01.2021 | Air Protein raises $32m to create sustainable 'meat' from microbes... and thin air | The round, led by ADM Ventures, Barclays and GV (formerly Google Ventures), will help fund an innovation R&D lab, accelerate product development and commercialization, and build the team at California-based Air Protein, which effectiv... |
| 23.10.2020 | Carbon-Negative Food Made From Thin Air? This Science Fiction Idea May Be A Reality Sooner Than You Think | Physicist, entrepreneur, and Kiverdi CEO, Lisa Dyson seeks to transform carbon dioxide into ... [+] nutritious, sustainable meatless meat proteins. Photo Courtesy of Lisa Dyson |
| 17.09.2020 | Microbes, the third pillar in the alternative protein industry: ‘The rationale is simple: Fermentation is just more efficient’ | It’s early days, says the Good Food Institute (GFI), but microbial fermentation is rapidly emerging as the “third pillar in the alternative protein industry [alongside cell-cultured and plant-based]," attracting $435m in investment ... |
| 26.05.2020 | Air Protein – Creating Meat Out Of Air — “We Have an Ultra-Sustainable, Clean Label Solution for the Future of Meat” | Last autumn, Air Protein created meat out of air. This astonishing company has pioneered a process of producing meat using the elements in the air, converting them into nutrients to form Air Protein flour; a complete protein that contains a... |
| 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... |
| 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 ... |
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