| Date | Title | Description |
| 29.07.2026 | Future Food Quick Bites: Protein Mac & Cheese, Wildtype Funding & Meat Sales | 3 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Daiya’s protein mac and cheese, Nueva Pescanova’s aborted octopus farm plan, and Wildtype’s crowdfunding success.... |
| 05.05.2026 | MicroHarvest Expands European Pet Food Presence With 15 Products Due by Mid-2026 | Hamburg-based MicroHarvest has confirmed more than 15 new pet food product launches scheduled for Q2 2026, as its fermentation-derived protein ingredient gains commercial traction across Germany and the UK.
The company produces protein thro... |
| 13.10.2025 | UK Launches First Dog Treat Made with Sustainable Microbial Protein | British pet food brand THE PACK and German biotech company MicroHarvest have introduced a new dog treat featuring microbial protein. The product, called Gut Bites, is made using a fermentation process that transforms agricultural side-strea... |
| 26.05.2025 | REWE Group Becomes First Retail Member of Food Fermentation Europe Association | The REWE Group, one of Europe’s largest retail organizations, has become the newest member of Food Fermentation Europe (FFE), an association representing the fermentation-enabled food and ingredients sector in the region.
“We can only succe... |
| 28.04.2025 | Palatability Trials Find Pets Prefer MicroHarvest Microbial Protein to Commercially-Available Kibble | New palatability trials by biotech innovator MicroHarvest have found that both cats and dogs preferred the company’s MPX microbial protein to a control food.
The tests used an MPX-based kibble made in collaboration with a Portuguese animal ... |
| 04.03.2025 | Dog Food Made from Fermented Gas Protein Lands on European Shelves | 4 Mins Read German pet food maker Marsapet has rolled out a kibble product for dogs using Calysta’s fermentation-derived FeedKind protein.
Would you feed your dog carbon and microbes?
If you’re in Europe, you now can, thanks to a partnershi... |
| 12.02.2025 | A new class of protein: Applying precision fermentation to pet food | ATLANTA — As the pet food industry continues to battle an increasingly constricting protein supply chain and rising consumer concerns about sustainability, the industry is keeping its eyes peeled for alternatives to traditional protein sour... |
| 14.11.2024 | The Future of Protein: Innovations in Microbial and Cultivated Seafood Production | The quest for sustainable protein sources is more urgent than ever. As the global population swells, so does the demand for food. Traditional agriculture and fishing methods are struggling to keep pace. Enter the innovators: MicroHarvest an... |
| 13.11.2024 | MicroHarvest Scales Microbial Protein Production to 10 Tons Daily in New Trial | German biotech MicroHarvest, the developer of one of the fastest protein production technologies in the world, announces it has reached a significant scaling milestone in a new large-scale trial.
The startup claims it has expanded its produ... |
| 08.11.2024 | Faber Tech III: Igniting the Future of Deep Tech in Southern Europe | In a world where technology evolves at lightning speed, Faber has stepped up to the plate. The venture capital firm recently launched Faber Tech III, a new fund aimed at nurturing the next generation of deep tech startups in Spain and Portu... |
| 04.11.2024 | Faber launches €60M deeptech fund for Iberian startups | Faber has launched its newest fund, Faber Tech III, at €31M. The fund is anchored by the European Investment Fund (EIF) and received major contributions from the NATO Innovation Fund and Caixa Capital, as well as repeat participation by Por... |
| 05.09.2024 | VEGDOG launches POPS treats | MUNICH — VEGDOG launched its new low-fat, low-calorie dog treats: POPS. With less than one calorie per “pop,” the vegan treats are designed to be a guilt-free training tool and reward between meals.
Inspired by human popcorn, the dog popcor... |
| 27.06.2024 | The scientific future of pet food: Leveraging alternative proteins | This article was published in the May 2024 issue of Pet Food Processing. Read it and other articles from this issue in our May digital edition.
Like other consumer product sectors, the pet food industry is now a part of the “Fourth Industri... |
| 24.04.2024 | VEGDOG Debuts Dog Treats with MicroHarvest’s Hypoallergenic Microbial Protein Ingredient | 4 Mins Read German startups VEGDOG and MicroHarvest have teamed up to release a microbial protein-based treat for dogs, which boasts environmental superiority and supports pets with allergies.
Pet food brand VEGDOG will soon roll out Pure B... |
| 24.04.2024 | MicroHarvest & VEGDOG Unveil Dog Treat with “First-of-its-Kind” Microbial Protein | Two German companies, the biotech startup MicroHarvest and plant-based pet food producer VEGDOG, have partnered to introduce a dog treat crafted from a sustainable ingredient: microbial proteins from biomass fermentation.
While other pet fo... |
| 23.11.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Matsmart-Motatos grabs $43m to save food waste, RED Horticulture bags $18m, TômTex makes leather from fish | This week, Matsmart-Motatos scored new funding for its e-commerce business that sells overstock dry goods to stop food waste. RED Horticulture raised capital for its LED greenhouse lighting tech, and alternative leather startup TômTex bagge... |
| 20.11.2023 | MicroHarvest Opens Pilot Plant to Accelerate Journey Towards Commercialisation | Biotech company MicroHarvest has opened a pilot plant in Lisbon, Portugal, to produce samples of its single-cell protein made through microbial fermentation.
In the space of six months, MicroHarvest has transformed a portion of its office s... |
| 23.05.2023 | Meatable is raising the steaks with faster manufacturing, culling the time is takes to send a cell-grown piggy to market | Today Meatable announced it has reduced the time it takes to create cultivated pork meat to only eight days, with the highest quality muscle and fat cells, thanks to a differentiation process that can scale at pace with lower costs.
Traditi... |
| 11.05.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Flash Coffee brews up $50m, ChrysaLabs nets $15m for soil science | This week, Singapore-based tech-forward coffee chain Flash Coffee secured funding, as did soil science startup ChrysaLabs, biotech startup MicroHarvest and sustainability measurement platform Improvin’. Beyond Meat got a thumbs up from the ... |
| 01.02.2023 | Who were the most active food and agriculture technology venture capital firms in 2022? | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder, a food and agriculture technology venture capital firm.
Click here for more research from AgFunder and ... |
| 06.12.2022 | 6 neue Startups: DigiDuck, Jomigo, Myterial, My Sam, Manti Manti, MicroHarvest | deutsche-startups.de präsentiert heute wieder einmal einige junge Startups, die zuletzt, also in den vergangenen Wochen und Monaten, an den Start gegangen sind, sowie Firmen, die zuletzt aus dem Stealth-Mode erwacht sind. Übrigens: Noch meh... |
| 22.09.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Swiftly bags $100m for grocery tech, Pano’s $20m to fight wildfires with AI | This week, retail and grocery tech startup Swiftly bagged a mega-round while front-of-house restaurant software startup Zenchef cooked up new financing to expand its presence. In agtech, Pano raised funds to fight wildfires with AI and Land... |
| 20.09.2022 | Hamburg’s MicroHarvest reaps in €8.5 million to build protein production system | Addressing the pressing need for sustainable alternatives to meet the growing global protein, demand Hamburg-based biotech startup MicroHarvest has raised €8.5 million in funding. The new capital will allow the startup to bring their single... |
| 12.05.2022 | 12 startups from Europe solving some of the most pertinent issues in food & agtech | The F&A Next 2022 summit in Wageningen, the Netherlands, next week will spotlight 12 startups as the “new heroes of food and agtech.” The event is nearly sold out but you can grab any last remaining tickets – at a discount with code AFN... |
| 11.10.2021 | Atlantic Labs spins-out FoodLabs, a €100M food tech fund addressing climate and health | In the latest sign that the tech industry is pivoting toward climate and sustainability, Atlantic Food Labs — an offshoot of the Berlin fund Atlantic Labs headed by long-time tech investor Christophe F. Maire — is relaunching as FoodLabs, w... |
| - | MicroHarvest | “The future of animal free protein: nutrients that feed the world. We strive for a resilient food system, using the power of microorganisms. Global demand for alternative protein is growing. Our Biotechnology leverages Nature’s most efficie... |
