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| 03.08.2026 | Livekindly Collective to Acquire Dutch Meat-Free Player Dalco Food for $7.3M | 3 Mins Read Livekindly Collective has made yet another addition to its portfolio of meat alternative brands, agreeing to buy Hilton Food Group’s Dalco Food subsidiary for £5.4M ($7.3M).
US holding company Livekindly Collective has signed a ... |
| 28.07.2026 | Exclusive: Calysta hires new CEO, seeks new capital as JV partner ends financial support | Gas fermentation specialist Calysta—which operates a demo-scale plant making single-cell protein for aquaculture and petfood markets from methane—has brought in a new CEO. The company is now urgently seeking new funds after its joint ventur... |
| 14.07.2026 | Chunk Foods Set to Double Sales & Defy Plant-Based Meat Slowdown | 5 Mins Read New York-based plant-based meat startup Chunk Foods expects to double its sales and reach profitability next year. Its CEO explains why demand isn’t the main problem facing this sector.
Despite repeated declines in US sales of p... |
| 07.07.2026 | Spain’s Alimentos Sanygran Takes Over Nutrition & Santé’s Plant-Based Food Business | 3 Mins Read Spanish manufacturer Alimentos Sanygran has acquired the plant-based and organic business assets of Nutrition & Santé’s Iberia arm, including a factory and 60-odd employees.
Alimentos Sanygran, a Navarra-based manufacturer o... |
| 22.06.2026 | Solein: How Solar Foods is Redefining Sustainable Nutrition | Solar Foods secured €77.8 million to expand Factory 02, pioneering "protein from air." Their Solein ingredient, created from CO2 and hydrogen, revolutionizes food production. It offers a sustainable, versatile alternative to tradi... |
| 18.06.2026 | Solar Foods wins $89.2m backing for ‘protein from air’ factory, but final investment decision still pending | Finnish startup Solar Foods has just secured €77.8 million ($89.2 million) in grants and loans from Business Finland towards its first commercial-scale food production facility making protein from “thin air” via gas fermentation, but says t... |
| 19.07.2025 | Gas fermentation startup Novonutrients calls it quits, seeks buyer for assets: ‘The technology’s potential remains unchanged’ | California-based gas fermentation company NovoNutrients has entered the Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors (ABC) process, which serves as an alternative to bankruptcy.
The move follows news that Austrian ‘protein from air’ startup Arke... |
| 15.03.2025 | From Air to Aisle: The Future of Food with Solein Protein | In a world where food security hangs by a thread, innovation is the lifeline. Enter Fazer, a Finnish food giant, ready to revolutionize our snacking habits. At the Future Food-Tech event in San Francisco, they unveiled their latest creation... |
| 14.03.2025 | From Air to Aisle: Fazer’s Trials Gas-Fermented Protein Snack & Drinks | 4 Mins Read Finnish food giant Fazer has teased a snack bar and two protein oat milk beverages made using Solar Foods’s fermentation-derived Solein protein.
How about some CO2 in your protein shake?
Fazer is giving attendees at Future Food-... |
| 14.08.2024 | The Future of Food: Air-Powered Delicacies and Cancer Breakthroughs | In a world where sustainability and health are paramount, two groundbreaking developments are making waves. One is a culinary revolution that transforms air into delectable desserts. The other is a medical breakthrough that enhances cancer ... |
| 13.08.2024 | Solar Foods, Ajinomoto Roll Out Desserts with Solein Protein from Air in Singapore | 4 Mins Read Solar Foods’s Solein protein from air stars in mooncakes and ice cream sandwiches launched in Singapore under Japanese food giant Ajinomoto’s new Atlr.72 brand.
Finnish startup Solar Foods has introduced the first results of its... |
| 18.07.2024 | NovoNutrients: Pioneering Sustainable Protein Production by Transforming CO2 Emissions | NovoNutrients, a forward-thinking biotech company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, has recently secured a significant milestone in its journey towards revolutionizing the protein industry. With a successful Series A funding round rai... |
| 17.07.2024 | Biotech company to develop sustainable protein from carbon emissions | SUNNYVALE, CALIF. — Biotechnology company NovoNutrients closed its Series A funding round on July 16, raising $18 million to help fund the development of sustainable, premium proteins. The company specializes in transforming carbon emission... |
| 16.07.2024 | NovoNutrients Raises US$18M in Series A Funding | NovoNutrients, a Sunnyvale, CA-based biotech company transforming CO₂ emissions into premium protein, raised US$18M in Series A funding.
The round, which brought the total amount to $23M, was led by Woodside Energy and CM Venture Capital. O... |
| 11.07.2024 | NovoNutrients Closes $18M Series A to Make Protein from CO2 for People & Pets | 4 Mins Read US alternative protein startup NovoNutrients has raised $18M in a Series A funding round ahead of opening its pilot facility, with a renewed focus on humans and pets.
The $18M Series A round was led by Australia’s Woodside Energ... |
| 06.05.2024 | New Zealand’s Jooules Raises $600,000 to Turn Carbon Into Food-Grade Proteins | 4 Mins Read New Zealand startup Jooules has raised NZ$1M (about $600,000) in funding to advance its gaseous fermentation technology, which converts carbon emissions streams into protein for food ingredients.
Wellington-based Jooules secured... |
| 17.04.2024 | Factory 01: Solar Foods Opens World’s First Commercial-Scale Facility for Air Protein | 5 Mins Read Finnish food tech company Solar Foods has opened the doors to its much-awaited Factory 01, which is the world’s first large-scale production facility for air protein.
Months after closing an €8M Series B investment round to supp... |
| 19.01.2024 | A Snack Bar Made From Air: Fazer Unveils Limited-Edition Chocolate Bar Using Solein | 5 Mins Read Finnish company Solar Foods’ Solein protein is expanding its footprint in Singapore through a partnership with Helsinki-based food giant Fazer Group, which has crafted a limited-edition snack bar using the air protein.
Fazer has... |
| 05.12.2023 | Fermentation-Brewed Proteins: Farmless Raises €4.8M in Seed Funding for Pilot Plant & NPD | 5 Mins Read Dutch fermentation startup Farmless has secured €4.8M to fund a pilot plant and accelerate R&D for its landless microbial protein. Founder and CEO Adnan Oner speaks to Green Queen about the investment round and plans for reg... |
| 21.11.2023 | Solar Foods: Solein Air Protein Maker Bags $8.8M in Series B Funding for New 2024 Factory | 5 Mins Read Finnish startup Solar Foods has closed an oversubscribed €8M ($8.8M) Series B funding round to expand the production of its Solein protein made from air and support the construction of its Factory 01, slated to be operational in... |
| 13.04.2023 | NovoNutrients wants to turn CO2 into protein | We’ve spent the last century and a half pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and it’s clear that we’ll have to spend the coming decades removing a significant fraction of that.
But then what do we do with it all? Some people are prop... |
| 16.06.2022 | Look what’s happening online today at TC Sessions: Climate | Welcome to Online Day at TC Sessions: Climate! Opportunity knocks just as loud online as it does IRL, but this knock can be heard around the world. You’ll find everything happening today listed in the event agenda, but here’s a quick rundow... |
| 22.02.2022 | ‘Plug and Play Topeka’ Selects 12 Startups for Third Round of Accelerator Program | The Plug and Play Topeka accelerator facilitates partnerships and mentorships with help from GO Topeka, while capitalizing on Topeka’s robust animal-health and agricultural economic ecosystems. "The future of animal-health and ag-tech ... |
| 09.11.2021 | Key takeaways from the SOSV Climate Tech Summit | Benjamin Joffe Contributor
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| 03.08.2021 | NovoNutrients Raises US$9 Million for Converting CO2 Emissions Into Vegan Protein Ingredients | 4 Mins Read
Alternative proteins company NovoNutrients has secured a total of US$9 million to finish its industrial pilot project. The project is dedicated to capturing carbon emissions to develop high-quality animal-free proteins using nat... |
| 15.06.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: How We Manage Our Portfolio: Why It Remains Strong During Market Corrections (And Apparently Pandemics) | When COVID-19 hit, it hit hard. Who would have imagined the Federal Reserves slashing interest rates down to zero to salve a dead stopped economy? Or imagined a worldwide lockdown? The modern world has, literally, never seen anything like t... |
| 02.12.2019 | The Future Of Food: We’re Now Making Protein From Thin Air | 1
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One of the biggest ways we can reduce our individual environmental impact and boost our health is to reduce our reliance on traditional livestock farmed meat. Though the concept of plant-based meat still remains foreig... |
| 19.11.2019 | City council approves $24M for East End hub, TMCx opens apps, and more Houston innovation news | Houston is busting at the seams with innovation news as the ecosystem prepares to wrap up its year of growth. From grants and M&A activity to expansions and awards, there's a lot of news you may have missed.
In this latest news roundup,... |
| 07.11.2019 | Inception with David Tze, CEO of NovoNutrients | David Tze is CEO of NovoNutrients, transforming waste industrial CO2 into feed using industrial biotech. In this episode, David shares what inspired him to make the switch from oil fields to aquaculture, the fascinating science behind his c... |
| 18.10.2019 | WATCH: What role will microscopic microbial factories play in the future of protein? | It’s too early to write off farm animals just yet, says Darren Streiler, investment director at ADM Ventures (ADM’s corporate venturing arm, which has invested in Geltor, Perfect Day and Sustainable Bioproducts), but this technology ... |
| 02.10.2019 | Forget animals, animal cells, and plants, says Air Protein: The most sustainable 'meat' is made from microbes… and thin air | Some companies such as Motif FoodWorks use synthetic biology to write DNA sequences that can be inserted into microorganisms to ‘instruct’ them to produce animal proteins; others such as Sustainable Bioproducts have identified microbes ... |
| 27.09.2019 | How To Spot A Synthetic Biology Unicorn | Biotech is projected to reach $775 billion by 2024, but dozens of companies in the field of ... [+] synthetic biology are creating magical tools to go beyond that. Look here for the next unicorn. Jelena Trmčić for SynBioBeta |
| 30.07.2019 | Fellowship Program at Purple Orange Ventures for Animal-Free Foodtech | The Purple Orange Ventures Entrepreneurial Scientist & Engineer Fellowship has announced the launch of the 2019 program encourage more top-notch scientists and engineers to join the animal-free foodtech space movement.
Purple Orange Ven... |
| 06.11.2018 | Watch biotech startups pitch at IndieBio’s demo day today | IndieBio, the biotech startup accelerator that’s produced heaps of notable companies (including several that have graced the Startup Battlefield), is holding its twice-annual demo day today at 3PM Pacific Time. An even dozen young companies... |
| 15.12.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: New Fund for Coops in Developing Countries, Target Buys Shipt, Soylent CEO is Out, more | Clarmondial Wins Grant from Convergence to Launch Food Securities Fund
Clarmondial, a Swiss investment advisory company, won a Design Funding grant from Convergence, to build and launch an investment fund for private credit in agriculture. ... |
| 10.11.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Perdue to Re-Evaluate GMO Reg Changes, Fish 2.0 Announces Winners, Bosch Partners on Driverless Tractor, more | Ag Secretary to Withdraw and Re-Evaluate GMO Regulation
US Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced plans to withdraw Obama-era revisions to biotechnology regulations involving genetic modification and editing. The Secretary took the... |
| - | COVID-19 Edition: How We Manage Our Portfolio: Why It Remains Strong During Market Corrections (And Apparently Pandemics) | Photo by Micheile Henderson on Unsplash
When COVID-19 hit, it hit hard. Who would have imagined the Federal Reserves slashing interest rates down to zero to salve a dead stopped economy? Or imagined a worldwide lockdown? The modern world h... |
| - | The Alternative Protein Boom: From Beyond Burgers to Shrimp Feed | Author David Tze is CEO of our portfolio company NovoNutrients.
The alternative protein space has recently been an area of considerable investing activity and increased interest. These notable food financings, from Series A to IPO, include... |
| - | Inception with David Tze, CEO of NovoNutrients | David Tze is CEO of NovoNutrients, transforming waste industrial CO2 into feed using industrial biotech. In this episode, David shares what inspired him to make the switch from oil fields to aquaculture, the fascinating science behind his c... |
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