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| 06.07.2026 | Japanese Govt Sets Out $6.2B Investment in ’New Foods’ in 2040 Roadmap | 4 Mins Read Japan’s government has laid out a draft public-private investment roadmap across 17 sectors for 2040, totalling $2.3T. As part of this, it’s targeting $6.2B in funding for novel food technologies.
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| 16.04.2025 | Japan’s Integriculture Develops Products Made From Cultivated Duck Liver | Japanese cultivated meat company Integriculture has announced the successful development of prototype products made from cultivated duck liver.
The products were recently showcased at a sensory evaluation held at the company’s research base... |
| 26.01.2022 | IntegriCulture Nets $7 Million To Develop Open Source Cellular Agriculture Infrastructure Platform | 3 Mins Read
Japanese foodtech IntegriCuture has closed a Series A funding round with $7 million successfully raised. The investment will go into the development of affordable growth mediums, plus other tech solutions for the cultivated meat... |
| 19.01.2022 | BREAKING: Japan’s IntegriCulture scores $7m from AgFunder, others for ‘outside-factor-free’ cell ag | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in IntegriCulture.
IntegriCulture, a Japanese startup striving to bring down the costs of cellular ag, has raised $7 million in Series A-plus funding.
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| 19.01.2022 | Japan’s IntegriCulture scores $7m from AgFunder, others for ‘outside-factor-free’ cell ag | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in IntegriCulture.
IntegriCulture, a Japanese startup striving to bring down the costs of cellular ag, has raised $7 million in Series A-plus funding.
New investors joining the roun... |
| 26.08.2021 | AgFunder raises $21m for New Carnivore alt-protein fund from ADM, Alexandria & others | Disclosure: AgFunder is AFN’s parent company.
Agrifoodtech VC AgFunder has announced the final close of New Carnivore, its alternative protein fund, on $21 million.
The fund was oversubscribed, surpassing its hard cap.
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| 10.08.2021 | BREAKING: Cultivated crustacea pioneer Shiok Meats acquires Gaia Foods to expand into red meat | Singaporean alt-protein startup Shiok Meats has acquired local counterpart Gaia Foods in a deal which will see it expand beyond its existing portfolio of cell-cultured crustacean meat.
Financial details of the deal were not disclosed, thoug... |
| 21.07.2021 | BREAKING: Shiok Meats adds Asian food industry giants to cap table in latest funding round | Shiok Meats has closed a bridge financing involving several major food companies. While the cell-cultured seafood startup didn’t disclose how much it has raised, it said the round takes its total funding to date to $30 million.
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| 23.06.2021 | Midweek Digest: SupPlant & Superplum raise funds, Burger King goes veggie in Singapore | Burger King goes veggie in Singapore, SupPlant and Superplum get funding, and other morsels of the past week’s other agrifoodtech news from around the web, for your delectation. [Disclosure: AgFunder, which is AFN‘s parent company, is an in... |
| 22.06.2021 | Japan’s CulNet Consortium: New Open Innovation Platform For Cell-Based Meat & Materials | 3 Mins Read
Japanese cultivated protein startup IntegriCulture recently launched its CulNet Consortium, an open innovation platform dedicated to cellular agriculture. With twelve companies on board, the platform aims to accelerate and scale... |
| 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... |
| 09.09.2020 | IntegriCulture Gets US$2.2M Government Grant To Build Cell-Ag Facility | 5
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Japanese food tech IntegriCulture Inc. has been awarded a ¥240 million (US$2.2 million) grant from the government’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to build its commercial cellular agriculture facility. Constr... |
| 30.07.2020 | Clarification for Earlier Article on Cultivated Bacon and More on Cultivated Meat Market | In an earlier article about Higher Steaks, a leading UK food tech company, we said the company had revealed “the world’s first cultivated bacon and pork belly”. We have since been contacted by Mission Barns, another food technology company,... |
| 07.07.2020 | IntegriCulture Inc. Raises JPY800 Million in Series A Round Led by Beyond Next Ventures | Japan’s IntegriCulture Inc., a cellular agriculture specialist, has completed a Series A fundraising round of JPY800 million (USD7.4 million) backed by Beyond Next Ventures, NH Foods, and AgFunder, amongst others. The amount raised totals J... |
| 07.07.2020 | IntegriCulture Inc. Raises JPY800 Million in Series A Round Led by Beyond Next Ventures | ©Integriculture
Japan’s IntegriCulture Inc., a cellular agriculture specialist, has completed a Series A fundraising round of JPY800 million (USD7.4 million) backed by Beyond Next Ventures, NH Foods, and AgFunder, amongst others. The amount... |
| 06.07.2020 | BREAKING NEWS: IntegriCulture Inc Collaborates With Shiok Meats to Upscale Cell-Based Shrimp & Reduce Costs | Shiok Meats’ cell-grown “shrimp“ dumplings. CREDIT Shiok Meats.jpg
It has been revealed to vegconomist that IntegriCulture Inc. and Shiok Meats Ltd have officially entered into a collaboration to upscale Shiok Meat’s cell-based shrimp utili... |
| 29.05.2020 | IntegriCulture Closes Series A Funding Round at JPY800M | IntegriCulture, Inc., a Tokyo, Japan-based agtech company, completed a Series A funding round of JPY800m (USD7.4m).
Backers included Beyond Next Ventures, NH Foods, Real Tech Fund, AgFunder, Mr. Naruhisa Nakagawa (Caygan Capital Ltd. CEO an... |
| 28.05.2020 | Japan’s IntegriCulture Raises US$7.4M, Largest Series A For Asia Alt Protein Sector | 15 1
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Japanese food tech IntegriCulture Inc. has just completed its Series A funding with ¥800 million (US$7.4 million). The round was led by Beyond Next Ventures, NH Foods and AgFunder, and marks the largest Series A r... |
| 27.05.2020 | Japanese cell cultured meat co IntegriCulture raises $7.4m, aims to commercialize foie gras in 2021 | The round – backed by Beyond Next Ventures, multinational food company NH Foods, AgFunder and other investors – follows a US$2.7m seed round raised in 2018, and will be used to fund R&D work, build the production facility for foie gras,... |
| 26.05.2020 | IntegriCulture raises $7.4m at Series A from AgFunder, others to ‘democratize’ cell ag | Japan’s IntegriCulture has raised ¥800 million ($7.4 million) in Series A funding to help push its low-cost cellular agriculture platform to enterprise customers.
Investors in the round include AgFunder, Beyond Next Ventures, Hiroshima Vent... |
| 14.05.2020 | Japanese Food Tech IntegriCulture Launches Cultivated Infrastructure Standardisation Framework | 1
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IntegriCulture Inc., a cellular agriculture company based in Japan, has just announced the launch of its new “Uni-CulNet” framework, a standardised cell-based agriculture infrastructure system. The two-pronged framewor... |
| 30.04.2020 | IntegriCulture Japan: “I Want to Realize Cultured Meat, a Staple of Science Fiction” | Cultured meat is expected to solve numerous social problems such as food security and various environmental issues. IntegriCulture is a promising startup working on the development of cultured meat in Japan.
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| 19.04.2020 | Asia’s Food 2.0 Entrepreneurs Are Innovating Their Way Out Of The Climate Crisis | 115 1
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Asia faces a massive challenge to feed 5 billion people – over half of the world’s population – by 2050. A new report argues that alternative proteins, including plant-based and cultivated replacements, are the ... |
| 23.03.2020 | Supportive Government Means First Commercial Cultivated Food May Just Happen In Asia, Report Says | 1
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According to the Asia Alternative Protein Industry Report, the first commercially available cultivated food might just happen right here in Asia. While recognising that Asia’s alternative protein development is still i... |
| 23.07.2019 | Clean Meat Startups: 10 Lab-Grown Meat Producers to Watch | 162 shares
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Clean meat is one of the hottest areas of startup innovation right now—and for good reason. Conventional meat is extremely water- and resource-intensive, is one of the major causes of deforestation a... |
| 03.07.2019 | Industry Pioneer, Educator and Bestselling Author Olivia Fox Cabane on the Future of Food | Courtesy of Olivia Fox Cabane
Olivia Fox Cabane is the organiser of the Alternative Protein Summit and is recognised for her industry landscapes mapping out foodtech’s most innovative companies, an activity with which we at vegconomist are ... |
| 11.12.2018 | JUST strikes deal in Japan to bring cell-cultured Wagyu beef to market | Under the deal, JUST will develop cultured Wagyu beef from Toriyama cell lines, and Awano (Toriyama's export agent with clients around the globe) will market and sell the meat.
While Wagyu beef is known for its high levels of intra-muscular... |
| 01.08.2018 | Clean meat: How do US consumers feel about cell cultured meat? | While early research on consumers’ reactions to clean meat has been mixed, it has generally focused on understanding ‘baseline’ attitudes — “asking people who know little about it whether they’d be willing to eat it,” said Faunalytics - ... |
| 15.06.2018 | FDA announces public meeting on cultured meat, says it can be regulated under existing frameworks | The announcement also made it clear that regulating cultured meat – which involves producing meat from growing animal cells outside an animal – falls squarely within the FDA's remit, despite calls for USDA to create new regulations governi... |
| 18.05.2018 | Ill considered’ cattlemen’s petition ‘would cause chaos’ in the marketplace,’ claims North American Meat Institute | While cattle farmers are concerned about how cultured meat – which is produced from animal cells but does not involve raising or slaughtering animals - might impact the meat industry as we know it, leading meat processors see it as an oppor... |
| 17.05.2018 | Clean meat: ‘Traditional animal agriculture has reached capacity,’ says Future Meat Technologies | Speaking to FoodNavigator-USA after raising $2.2m in a seed funding round co-led by Tyson Ventures - the venture arm of meat giant Tyson Foods – FMT founder Professor Yaakov Nahmias said: “We can get the price down probably in about 6-8 m... |
| 02.05.2018 | Approving cattlemen’s petition would have a “chilling” effect on food innovation, says Memphis Meats | While no cultured meat products are on the market yet, a handful of players from Mosameat in the Netherlands, Future Meat Technologies and SuperMeat in Israel, Memphis Meats, Finless Foods and Just Inc in the US, and Integricultu... |
| 29.01.2018 | Tyson spreads its protein bets with minority stake in cultured meat start-up Memphis Meats | In a statement announcing the investment (of an undisclosed sum) in Memphis Meats, Tyson Foods’ EVP corporate strategy Justin Whitmore said the move would “broaden our exposure to innovative, new ways of producing meat, especially since glo... |
| 16.01.2018 | Mosa Meat CEO on clean meat, competition and disrupting a $1 trillion market | Four years ago, Mosa Meat's chief scientific officer Mark Post showcased the world's the very first clean meat burger. Made of muscle fibre produced without killing an animal, it had the texture of meat, but not the flavour or colour.
Since... |
| 21.12.2017 | Cultured fish co Finless Foods aims to achieve price parity with Bluefin tuna by the end of 2019 | Co-founder and CEO Mike Selden told FoodNavigator-USA: “Initially, quantities will be limited, and we’ll be working with chefs in high-end restaurants doing some really interesting things just to spark a conversation, and get the public to... |
| 08.12.2017 | Clean meat is greener, claims Hampton Creek: ‘Animal agriculture is a relatively inefficient way to create the foods that we want’ | Speaking to FoodNavigator-USA at FOOD VISION USA in Chicago, director of cellular agriculture Eitan Fischer said growing interest in clean meat (made by culturing cells without raising or slaughtering animals) and plant-based meat, egg an... |
