| Date | Title | Description |
| 24.08.2026 | ADM Gets $2.2M Award from Iowa State to Expand Precision Fermentation Capacity in Clinton | 3 Mins Read Food processing giant ADM has received $2.23M in tax credits from the Iowa state government to convert an underutilised space at its Clinton facility into a precision fermentation hub.
A month after securing a contract to produc... |
| 25.03.2026 | Australia’s Cauldron Ferm Gets $13.25M for Continuous ‘Hyper-Fermentation’ Platform | 5 Mins Read Australian biomanufacturing specialist Cauldron Ferm has raised $13.25M in funding to expand its “hyper-fermentation” platform with retrofitted facilities and meet government and corporate demand.
Scale and cost efficiency have ... |
| 24.03.2026 | Cauldron Raises $13.25M in Series A2 Funding | Cauldron Ferm, an Orange, Australia-based advanced biomanufacturing company, raised $13.25M in Series A2 funding.
The round was led by Main Sequence Ventures, with participation from Horizons Ventures, SOSV, and NGS Super.
The raise brought... |
| 21.11.2024 | The Future of Food: Precision Fermentation and Cultivated Meat in the Asia-Pacific Region | The food industry is at a crossroads. Traditional methods of food production are under pressure. Population growth, climate change, and resource scarcity loom large. In response, innovative technologies like precision fermentation and culti... |
| 20.11.2024 | Precision Fermentation Industry Could Generate $30Bn Annually for Australia, Says New White Paper | Australia’s Food and Beverage Accelerator (FaBA) has released a new report exploring the challenges, economic impact, and sustainability of the country’s precision fermentation industry.
More than 70 authors from industry, government, and a... |
| 03.10.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Fly farmer catches $58m, new deals for restaurant tech, TR4-resistant bananas | Restaurant tech was in the spotlight this week as food delivery app HungryPanda and software startup Dinii both announced new funding rounds. In Canada, Entosystem raised new capital for its black soldier fly larvae farming operation.
In no... |
| 02.10.2024 | Queensland Govt Backs Cauldron Ferm’s Efforts to Build APAC’s Largest Precision Fermentation Facility | 4 Mins Read Australian fermentation specialist Cauldron Ferm has received financial support from the Queensland government to build a first-of-its-kind precision fermentation contract manufacturing plant.
The state of Queensland is exhibiti... |
| 02.10.2024 | Cauldron Ferm to Develop Asia-Pacific’s Largest Precision Fermentation Facility Following Queensland Government Support | Australia’s Cauldron Ferm announces that the Queensland Government, through its Industry Partnership Program (IPP), will support the development of the ‘Cauldron Bio-fab’, a precision fermentation facility in Mackay.
The facility will be th... |
| 02.09.2024 | Think Tank Lays Out Policy Recommendations for Australia’s Precision Fermentation Sector | 5 Mins Read Australia has a young but burgeoning precision fermentation sector, but to meet its potential, it needs a big helping hand from the government.
It may only be home to six companies, but Australia’s precision fermentation ecosyst... |
| 14.08.2024 | New eligibility test, updated rules for SMEs in revamped Export Market Development Grant scheme | Source: Unsplash/Paul Teysen. article-article-body
The federal government’s latest Export Market Development Grants (EDMG) round will open to small businesses in November, and Trade Minister Don Farrell is urging SMEs to understand the new-... |
| 13.08.2024 | Cauldron awarded $2.8m to advance continuous fermentation tech, appoints CTO | Australian startup Cauldron has been awarded AUD4.3 million ($2.8 million) from the Department of Industry, Science and Resources Industry Growth Program (IGP) to help scale a manufacturing platform enabling its partners to produce high-val... |
| 12.08.2024 | Cauldron books $4.3 million Industry Growth Program grant to expand hyper-fermentation facility | Cauldron co-founder and CEO Michele Stansfield. Source: Cauldron article-article-body
Australian biomanufacturing startup Cauldron Ferm has secured $4.3 million in the first round of Industry Growth Program funding, helping the operation sc... |
| 11.08.2024 | The Rise of Alternative Proteins: A New Era in Biomanufacturing | The world is changing. Traditional food systems are under pressure. Climate change, population growth, and health concerns are pushing us to rethink what we eat. Enter alternative proteins. They are not just a trend; they are a revolution. ... |
| 08.08.2024 | Cauldron Appoints Biotech Veteran to Spearhead Hyper-Fermentation Solution for Alternative Proteins | Contract manufacturer organization Cauldron Ferm announces the appointment of Solugen and BASF industry veteran David Weiner as new chief technology officer.
Drawing on his extensive experience in product development and scaling innovative ... |
| 07.08.2024 | Why Australia Is Ideally Positioned to Play A Leading Role in the Global Smart Protein Industry’s Success | 7 Mins Read Australia has unique advantages when it comes to pushing the future of protein technology forward, argues independent alternative protein think tank Food Frontier CEO Dr Simon Eassom.
Food systems transformation is increasingly ... |
| 21.03.2024 | Revolutionizing Precision Fermentation: Cauldron Ferm's $6.25M Series A Funding | Cauldron Ferm, an Australian hyper-fermentation company, has secured $6.25M in Series A funding to scale its continuous fermentation technology and build a large-scale facility for manufacturing high-value ingredients. Led by Horizons Ventu... |
| 20.03.2024 | Cauldron Ferm Raises $6.25M in Series A to Fund Hyper-Fermentation Facility for High-Value Ingredients | 5 Mins Read Australian hyper-fermentation company Cauldron Ferm has secured AU$9.5M ($6.25M) in Series A funding to build a large-scale facility to manufacture high-value ingredients through precision fermentation.
A year after closing a la... |
| 19.03.2024 | Investors Back Cauldron’s Plans for Global Network of Precision Fermentation Facilities to Tune of $6.25M | Precision fermentation company Cauldron Ferm announces it has secured AUD 9.5 million ($6.25M) in a series A round led by Horizons Ventures. SOSV, In-Q-Tel, and previous investor Main Sequence also participated in the round, bringing Cauldr... |
| 18.03.2024 | Cauldron raises $6.25m series A to scale continuous fermentation tech | Australian startup Cauldron has raised AUD9.5 million ($6.25 million) in a series A round led by Horizons Ventures to scale a manufacturing platform enabling its partners to produce high-value ingredients via precision fermentation more eff... |
| 01.03.2024 | This Week in Australia’s Cell Ag Sector: Cauldron Ferm and QUT Lead Efforts to Scale Precision Fermentation Production | We are covering this week’s developments in Australia’s cellular agriculture ecosystem, with Cauldron Ferm and Queensland University of Technology (QUT) leading efforts to establish a global infrastructure for scaling up precision fermentat... |
| 14.11.2023 | 🎥Cauldron on precision fermentation: ‘A continuous process will unlock cost of goods for low-value, high-volume products’ | Precision fermentation might make commercial sense for high-value ingredients such as enzymes or lactoferrin. But what about low-value, high-volume ingredients such as casein proteins?
AgFunderNews caught up with Australian startup Cauldron... |
| 30.03.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Local Bounti lands $145m, Momofuku Goods bags $17.5m, Vow’s ‘mammoth’ meatball | This week, indoor farming startup Local Bounti raised additional funding, as did the Momofuku restaurant group’s spinoff company, Momofuku Goods. Indoor mushroom startup Smallhold expanded thanks to a retail partnership, and cultivated meat... |
| 29.03.2023 | Cauldron raises $7m to expand precision fermentation platform using ‘smaller, smarter, cheaper’ continuous process | Australian startup Cauldron has raised A$10.5 million ($7 million) in a seed round led by Main Sequence and Horizons Ventures to scale a manufacturing platform enabling its partners to produce high-value ingredients via precision fermentati... |
| - | Cauldron Ferm | “Cauldron is sustainably delivering the precision fermented prototypes of today to the supermarket shelves of tomorrow.” |
| - | Cauldron Ferm | “Cauldron is pioneering next-generation bioprocess innovation to accelerate industrial-scale, commercially viable biomanufacturing.” |
