Making Better Insects.
Specifically, we are insect breeders. We create high performance insect gene
Specifically, we are insect breeders. We create high performance insect gene
Location: United Kingdom, Scotland, Roslin
Employees: 1-10
Total raised: $2.1M
Founded date: 2017
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| 13.11.2023 | Climate VC | climate.vc |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 17.10.2023 | - | $2.1M | - |
Mentions in press and media 15
| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.06.2026 | Innovafeed raises $59m, scales production, cuts R&D headcount as insect ag hits “industrialization phase” | French insect ag firm Innovafeed has raised a €51 million ($59 million) round and unveiled plans to consolidate activities at its commercial-scale black soldier fly larvae production facility in Nesle, France. The move is part of a reorgani... |
| 26.03.2026 | Insect ag recalibrates after a brutal shakeout: Where are the key players now? | The insect ag industry is littered with the corpses of startups who found out the hard way that scaling biological systems is not as easy as it looks, prompting a wave of think pieces suggesting its days are numbered. Despite the sector’s w... |
| 17.03.2026 | Dutch insect ag firm Protix shifts focus to Asia: ‘We could be cost competitive there from day one’ | Dutch insect ag pioneer Protix is shifting its focus from Europe and North America to Asia, where it says the cost and regulatory structures are more favorable for the nascent industry, which is reeling from a wave of bankruptcies. Until Eu... |
| 22.06.2024 | The AgriFoodTech Revolution: Capital Raises, Acquisitions, and Partnerships Driving Innovation in the Industry | The dynamic world of AgriFoodTech is experiencing a surge of activity this week, with a plethora of significant developments making waves across the sector. Notably, companies in the alternative meat space, such as THIS, Tender, and Ever Af... |
| 20.06.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: THIS bags $25m & Tender scoops up $11m for meat alternatives, Farmbot scores $4.6m | Alt-meat got a few boosts this week, namely in form of capital raises for the UK’s THIS, US-based Tender, and Israeli cultivated meat company Ever After Foods. In farmtech, Australia’s Farmbot raised new funds along with insect-breeding pla... |
| 19.10.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Japan’s DAIZ lands $47m, Zordi emerges from stealth in US, FBN & ADM team up | Agtech’s big news this week was the emergence of US-based Zordi, which came out of stealth with its autonomous greenhouse tech. Over in foodtech, funding went to DAIZ for Japan’s ‘largest’ plant-based meat factory and a couple new developme... |
| 17.10.2023 | Edinburgh-based Beta Bugs raises €1.46M to scale up sustainable insect farming for animal feed production | Read this article in: Scottish insect genetics company Beta Bugs announced that it has raised €1.46M to scale up the production, sale, and supply of its black soldier fly (BSF) eggs and larvae. The insect farming sector will use them as a s... |
| 17.10.2023 | Beta Bugs Raises £1.72M in Funding | Beta Bugs, an Edinburgh, UK-based insect genetics company, raised £1.72M in funding. The round was led by The Tricapital Syndicate, with participation from SIS Ventures, Scottish Enterprise, Beeches Group, Climate.vc and existing shareholde... |
| 20.04.2021 | Phenix, a startup making better live-streaming tech, raises $16M | - |
| 07.10.2020 | UK government earmarks $13m for industrial insect farm | In the same week that French insect farming startup Ÿnsect netted its massive $372 million Series C, the UK government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) has earmarked a more modest £10 million ($12.9 million) to help build the cou... |
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