Making better meat for Africa with cellular agriculture.
Location: South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Town
Investors 1
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Mentions in press and media 16
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| 17.08.2023 | Africa’s First Cultivated Meat Startup Rebrands to Newform Foods, Aims to Ramp Up Production with Cost-Effective Platform | 4 Mins Read South Africa’s Mzansi Meat is rebranding to Newform Foods, and has developed a cost-effective bioproduction platform to accelerate production of cultivated meat. Africa’s first cell-cultured meat company, Newform Foods is in ear... |
| 23.09.2022 | Meet the founder: Mzansi Meat’s co-founders on building a global foodtech company with African roots | Mzansi Meat debuted as Africa’s first cultivated meat company in 2020. Co-founders Brett Thompson and Tasneem Karodia share the ambition of creating high-quality, great-tasting meat with without slaughtering or harming the animals. Thompson... |
| 02.09.2022 | 5 African alternative protein startups innovating to meet 3-fold increase in meat & dairy demand by 2050 | As we’ll soon report in our upcoming Africa AgriFoodTech Investment report in collaboration with FMO and BII, the trend for alternative protein products — those that offer consumers the experience of eating meat and dairy without the use of... |
| 22.07.2022 | Meet the founder: Marica Quarsingh of Sea-Stematic on creating the ‘Tesla of Seafood’ | Marica Quarsingh calls her startup Sea-Stematic the “Tesla of seafood” to communicate how she believes seafood should be produced: sustainably and with the right global benchmarks and market insights. Quarsingh, an arts and philanthropy lov... |
| 14.04.2022 | South African Startup Unveils Continent’s First Cultivated Beef Burger | 3 Mins Read Mzansi Meat has debuted Africa’s first-ever cultivated beef burger. It comes one month after the startup announced it would be showcasing the dish at a special event in Cape Town. Both of Mzani’s co-founders attended, alongside ... |
| 21.03.2022 | Mzansi Meat to Unveil “Africa’s First Cultivated Meat Burger” | South African company Mzansi Meat is set to showcase what it claims is Africa’s first cultivated meat burger. The product will be revealed at a bespoke event in Cape Town next month. To produce Mzansi’s burgers, cells are extracted from cow... |
| 17.03.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Licious nets $150m, Bear Robotics raises $81m | Licious, an India e-commerce marketplace for meat, scored $150 million in Series F-plus investment this week, while California’s Bear Robotics bagged $81 million for its robot restaurant servers. Over in agtech, Local Bounti snapped up a ri... |
| 10.03.2022 | South Africa’s Mzansi Meat To Debut Africa’s First-Ever Cultivated Meat Beef Burger | 1 1 Share 3 Mins Read Mzansi Meat, the African continent’s first cellular agriculture startup, has announced that it has successfully produced a cultivated beef burger after two years of research and development. The burger will make its de... |
| 23.09.2021 | Will South Africans Eat Cultivated Meat? Mzansi Meat is on The Plantbased Business Hour | Tasneem Karodia and Absie Pantshwa of Mzansi Meat join Elysabeth on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss food insecurity, a growing middle class in Africa, and the cultivated meat that will feed them. Specifically, they discuss What is M... |
| 06.09.2021 | From springbok to beef and chicken – how meat made in a petri dish is coming to South Africa | Meat or meat made in a lab. Source: Left (Photo by Amber Kipp on Unsplash), Right (Photo Jay Caboz). Mogale Meat Company and the Mzansi Meat Co. are two South African companies that want to make meat in a laboratory, without harming animals... |
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