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| 17.09.2026 | These constraints are holding agrifood back. AgFunder is investing to solve them | In the 1820s, when European farmers were pouring manure onto exhausted soils and getting very little yield back, the accepted explanation was that plants needed more humus, the decayed organic matter in the ground, which they fed on. So the... |
| 22.06.2026 | Cultivated meat deep dive: After the crash, who’s still standing? | It’s fair to say that cultivated meat is now well past its honeymoon period after a string of high-profile failures. But is there light at the end of the tunnel, or is one of agrifoodtech’s biggest moonshots destined for the dustbin of hist... |
| 18.06.2025 | Future Fields raises $8m Series A to expand fruit fly biomanufacturing platform: ‘Clients come to us because they’ve struggled to make proteins in legacy platforms’ | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Future Fields.]
Canadian startup Future Fields has raised an $8 million Series A round to expand its biomanufacturing platform harnessing genetically engineered fruit flie... |
| 18.01.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Agrotoken closes Series A, John Deere & SpaceX team up, MaxAB merges with Wasoko | Latin America agrifintech startup Agrotoken made news this week with a Series A that included participation from Bunge Ventures. A number of new collaborations also emerged, including a strategic partnership between John Deere and SpaceX, a... |
| 05.09.2023 | Good investment: The ambitious fund that shows how social impact can pay dividends | Amplify Capital’s Kathryn Wortsman wants every dollar to make a difference |
| 07.06.2023 | 🎥 Could fruit flies give microbes a run for their money? Future Fields thinks outside the fermentation tank | Microbes such as yeast and E. coli have been the workhorses of recombinant protein production for decades. But could the humble fruit fly give them a run for their money?
It’s early days, but given the upfront capex and high running costs a... |
| 23.02.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Pure Salmon nabs $507m, FreshToHome bags $104m, more layoffs for agrifood | This week, Amazon backs India’s FreshToHome and Pure Salmon inked a whopping $507 million deal with Saudi Arabia’s government. Layoffs continue, while regulators in Finland approve the use of “burger patty” in marketing plant-based meat pro... |
| 23.02.2023 | Future Fields Raises $11.2M USD in Funding | Future Fields, a Edmonton, Canada-based fly biotechnology company, raised $11.2M USD in funding.
The round was led by Bee Partners and Toyota Ventures with participation form Builders VC, AgFunder, Amplify Capital, Milad Alucozai of BoxOne ... |
| 22.02.2023 | Brief: Future Fields raises $11.2m to scale up fruit flies for recombinant protein production | [Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Future Fields via the 2019 GROW impact accelerator and its 2022 Alt Protein Fund.]
Canadian startup Future Fields has raised $11.2 million in a seed extension round to scale up ... |
| 22.02.2023 | Future Fields is turning fruit flies into bioreactors | It takes a lot of infrastructure, and money, to build the giant bioreactors experts say are needed to mass produce raw materials to make things like medicine, vaccines and cultivated meat.
Matt Anderson-Baron, co-founder and CEO of Canada-b... |
| 22.02.2023 | Future Fields: Why We Invested | At Amplify Capital, we actively support and invest in mission-driven founders and their startups across North America, focusing on healthcare, education, and environmental technologies. Our thesis is grounded in backing companies where purp... |
| 11.01.2023 | Apply to the 2023 AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator | Disclosure: AFN is the official media partner to GROW, which is backed by AFN’s parent company AgFunder.
US-based VC firm AgFunder and Singapore-based ecosystem builder GROW are now taking applications for the fourth cohort of their Impact ... |
| 27.04.2022 | A Pioneering Spirit Powers Kira Noodleman to Partner | I’m excited to formally announce that we have a new partner: Kira Noodleman. |
| 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... |
| 14.02.2022 | Could fruit flies slash the cost of growth media for cell cultured meat? Future Fields thinks outside the box | Cell cultured meat startups keep the composition of their media tightly under wraps, but it typically contains water, amino acids (lysine, arginine etc), sugars (glucose), salts, vitamins, buffering agents, culture aids and/or essential co-... |
| 17.11.2021 | Food for a Growing Planet: How Biomachines Will Win | When our portfolio company Future Fields set out to address the world’s reliance on animal protein as a food source, they intended to produce lab-grown chicken. After four months of intense experimentation, their only product was a chicken ... |
| 03.08.2021 | Join us online for GROW Impact Accelerator Demo Day 2021 | Disclosure: GROW is backed by AFN’s parent company, AgFunder.
After 20 weeks of coaching sessions, mentor networking, customer introductions and pitching practice, the GROW Impact Accelerator is drawing to a close.
It’ll soon be time for De... |
| 15.07.2021 | The answer to cell-cultured meat’s biggest conundrum? Fruit flies, says Future Fields | Disclosure: AgFunder (our parent company) is an investor in Future Fields through its GROW Impact Fund.
As is doubtless the case with a lot of great Canadian ideas, the founders of Future Fields came up with theirs while waiting in line at ... |
| 04.04.2021 | Reducing the cost of cell-cultured meat... Growth media in focus | Cell culture media formulas are a closely guarded secret in the nascent cell-cultured meat industry, says Bangalore-based Richcore Lifesciences. However, they typically contain water, amino acids (lysine, arginine etc), sugars (glucose), sa... |
| 31.03.2021 | Future Fields Raises $2.2M, Aims to Slash the Cost of Cell-Cultured Meat | Future Fields, a Canadian cell-cultured startup based in Edmonton, has raised US$2.2M from three American venture capital firms — Bee Partners, Pioneer Fund, and Narrative Fund. Several private investors also contributed.
The company has de... |
| 01.03.2021 | Future Fields Bags US$2.2M To Deliver Low-Cost FBS-Free Growth Media & Scale Cell-Based Meat | 4 Mins Read
Future Fields, the Y Combinator-backed Canadian startup creating custom growth media for the cultivated protein industry, has announced the closing of a US$2.2 million seed funding round. The firm also revealed that it has shipp... |
| 26.02.2021 | Future Fields Raises $2.2M in Seed Funding | Future Fields, an Edmonton, Alberta, Canada-based cellular agriculture company, raised $2.2m in seed financing.
The round was led by Bee Partners.
The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and business reach.
Co-founded by M... |
| 06.01.2021 | TurtleTree Labs launches B2B unit to develop cost-efficient culture media & growth factors | TurtleTree Labs, a Singaporean startup that’s culturing milk in the lab from animal cells, has launched a B2B business to develop growth factors for the wider cellular agrifood industry.
Dubbed TurtleTree Scientific, the new unit will work ... |
| 22.12.2020 | Cultured Protein: A Guide To Every Cell-Based Meat Startup In The World Right Now | 3 1
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The alternative protein market is on fire right now, estimated to be worth approximately $2.2Bn, and cultivated meat is expected to play an important role in the shift from traditional meat products. Experienced sc... |
| 27.08.2020 | Here are the 197 tech startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2020 Batch | We wrote about Y Combinator (YC) back in June after the startup incubator relaunched its Startup School as a Continuous Program. Y Combinator is a startup incubator that provides funding for early-stage startups. Since its inception in 2005... |
| 02.08.2020 | Future Fields is tackling cultured meat’s biggest problem | One possible solution to cellular agriculture’s biggest problem — how to develop a cheap, humane growth material for cultured meat — may have come from a conversation in line at a Tim Hortons in Alberta.
The husband and wife duo of Matt and... |
| 13.01.2020 | From stem cells to pork belly: New Age Meats’ full stack approach to cultivated meat | New Age Meats — a Berkeley-based cultivated meat startup designing bioreactors to grow stem cell formulations into bacon or pork belly — has closed a seed round worth $2.7 million.
Leading the round is New York’s deep tech-focused investors... |
| 09.10.2019 | The extraordinary opportunity in Asian Ag & Food Technology | Editor’s Note: Michael Dean is a founding partner at AgFunder and Executive Director of the GROW accelerator in Singapore.
It can be common to hear people, particularly in the West, talk about Asia as if it’s one country — the same happens ... |
| 17.09.2019 | GROW accelerator debuts its 9 startups | Temasek, Enterprise Singapore, Mondelez International, Cargill, Ferrero, Nestle, and Mitsubishi.
Those were some of the big names that joined in the fun at GROW’s “Meet The Cohort” on September 11, at its new Singapore headquarters at the L... |
| - | Future Fields | “We use fruit flies to make Earth's most sustainable recombinant proteins.” |
