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| 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... |
| 20.12.2024 | Orbillion Achieves Multicontinental Production Milestone for Cultivated Beef | Orbillion has achieved a notable step in the cultivated meat sector, announcing the production of its beef muscle cells at manufacturing facilities in North America, Europe, and Asia. The expansion marks a key development in scaling cultiva... |
| 26.06.2024 | Deals in brief: a16z and Lightspeed co-lead Series A investment in k-ID, Pawprints Group secures extension to seed round, Earth VC invests in Orbillion Bio, and more | NewsDeals in brief: Atome Financial secures up to USD 100 million debt facility, Food Empire bags funding from Ikhlas Capital, six China deals, and more
Written by KrASIA Writers Atome, Food Empire, Tiger New Energy, and more led yesterday’... |
| 14.03.2024 | Brief: Orbillion raises new capital for predictive modeling platform to de-risk cultivated meat scaleup | Berkeley-based startup Orbillion has raised fresh capital that brings its cumulative funding to $15 million. The round follows a successful 200-liter production run which the company claims validates its predictive modeling platform for “de... |
| 21.06.2023 | ‘A truly historic moment…’ UPSIDE Foods and GOOD Meat clear final hurdles to launch cultivated meat in the US | UPSIDE Foods and GOOD Meat (Eat Just) will be the first to launch cultivated meat in the US after clearing the final hurdle required by regulators: a grant of inspection (GOI) from USDA for their production facilities in California.
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| 01.06.2023 | Cultivated meat: Foodtech fantasy or the future of meat? ‘None of this stuff makes any commercial sense until everyone’s eating it’ | Two years ago, chemical engineer and engineering consultant Dr. Dave Humbird published a techno-economic analysis concluding that cultivated meat faced “intractable” challenges at food scale. While critics say technical advances in the fiel... |
| 14.04.2023 | Meet Jennifer Stojkovic, General Partner at Joyful Ventures | Joyful Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund that invests in alternative protein sources
Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow's products and services. Oh, how times have changed! While... |
| 28.03.2023 | 10 Women Founders Taking The Synthetic Biology World By Storm | Synthetic Biology is one of the most exciting technologies of the decade that promises to reimagine entire industries and solve the economic, societal, and environmental problems of the twenty-first century. The recent signing of the Execut... |
| 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... |
| 26.05.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Stable raises $60m, Galley gets $14m, World Bank’s $30bn food crisis response | Multiple restaurant tech companies made headlines this week, from Galley Solutions’ sizeable Series A fundraise to TRAY’s multi-year deal with IHOP. Meanwhile, a carbon initiative in Africa nabbed its first tranche of funding to restore lan... |
| 26.05.2022 | Orbillion Declares Cultivated Meat Price Parity by 2026 Ahead of Davos Talks | Orbillion Bio, the Silicon Valley-based cultivated meat startup, has claimed it will reach price parity by as early as 2026, as well as commodity pricing for beef in 2030. Orbilion CEO and co-founder, Patricia Bubner, will now head to the W... |
| 25.05.2022 | Orbillion Claims Says It Will Achieve Price Parity With Conventional Meat By 2026 | 4 Mins Read
San Francisco-based startup cultivated meat Orbillion has announced that it projects reaching price parity with conventional meat by 2026, with commodity pricing for beef to follow by 2030. The declaration comes as CE and co-fou... |
| 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... |
| 27.01.2022 | Plant-based lamb pioneer Black Sheep Foods bags $5.3m funding from AgFunder, others | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Black Sheep Foods.
San Francisco-based Black Sheep Foods has raised $5.25 million in seed funding to grow its business focused on “lesser-known, bold tasting” plant-based meats, ... |
| 12.07.2021 | Cutting out carbon emitters with bioengineering at XTC Global Finals on July 22 | Bioengineering may soon provide compelling, low-carbon alternatives in industries where even the best methods produce significant emissions. Utilizing natural and engineered biological process has led to low-carbon textiles from AlgiKnit, c... |
| 16.06.2021 | Orbillion Bio Joins AMPS Coalition Bringing Cell-Cultured Proteins To U.S. Market | 4 Mins Read
Orbillion Bio, the Silicon Valley food tech dedicated to culturing premium heritage meats, has joined the Alliance for Meat, Poultry & Seafood Innovation (AMPS Innovation). The coalition is made up of seven other U.S.-based ... |
| 01.06.2021 | The Newest Advancements From The Female Founders in Cellular Meat: Patricia Bubner, Stephanie Michelsen, Nieves Martinez Marshall and Benjamina Bollag | What are the newest advancements in cellular meat? Hear from the female founders leading the way. Patricia Bubner of Orbillion, Nieves Martinez Marshall of Novel Farms, Benjamina Bollag of HigherSteaks, and Stephanie Michelsen on Jellatech ... |
| 17.05.2021 | Orbillion Bio founder on scaling up cell-cultured meat: ‘We just need smart people, money, and time, and this will be solved. I have no doubt about it…’ | But operating on Bill Gates’ premise that we tend to overestimate what can be achieved in a year and underestimate what is possible in 10 years, there are grounds for real optimism in the medium to long-term, says Orbillion Bio co-founder... |
| 17.05.2021 | Orbillion Bio founder on scaling up cell-cultured meat: ‘We need smart people, money, and time, and this will be solved. I have no doubt about it…’ | But operating on Bill Gates’ premise that we tend to overestimate what can be achieved in a year and underestimate what is possible in 10 years, there are grounds for real optimism in the medium to long-term, says Orbillion Bio co-founder... |
| 30.04.2021 | Orbillion Bio Raises $5M to Develop Cell-Cultured Bison, Elk, and Wagyu Beef | To date, most cell-cultured companies have focused on the most common types of meat, such as chicken and pork. But Silicon Valley-based Orbillion Bio, fresh out of Y Combinator’s accelerator program, is targeting a different niche.
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| 26.04.2021 | Investors eat up Orbillion Bio’s plans for lab-grown Wagyu beef, elk and bison | Orbillion Bio’s plans to make high-end meats in a lab have investors lining up for a seat at the company’s cap table.
Mere weeks after launching from Y Combinator’s famous accelerator program, the Silicon Valley-based potential purveyor of ... |
| 23.03.2021 | This Y Combinator startup is taking lab-grown meat upscale with elk, lamb and Wagyu beef cell lines | Last week a select group of 20 employees and guests gathered at an event space on the San Francisco Bay, and, while looking out at the Bay Bridge, dined on a selection of choice elk sausages, Wagyu meatloaf and lamb burgers — all of which w... |
| 08.03.2021 | IWD 2021: Celebrating the Queens Of Alt Protein Who Are Forging The Future Of Food | 15 Mins Read
Editor’s Note: This list is the result of hours of work, and no doubt we have missed some amazing queens. We will do our best to keep adding. On the startup side, we focused on founders, but many of these startups have incredib... |
| 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... |
| 03.11.2020 | 8 Innovative Startups To Watch At The Future Food-Tech Summit 2020 | 2
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The need for new technologies to accelerate innovation in the food industry has never been greater, as the world battles the interrelated crises of climate change, food insecurity and the coronavirus pandemic. The upc... |
| 28.09.2020 | Alt Protein conference highlights: ‘We’ll see more change in the next 10 years than we’ve seen in the last 10,000’ | The report's apocalyptic predictions “seemed outlandish,” when it first came out, said Ryan Bethencourt, co-founder of petfood brand Wild Earth, partner at Babel Ventures and co-founder at IndieBio, a biology accelerator and early stage ... |
| 26.08.2020 | Meet the startups from Brinc’s first online Demo Day | Like other accelerators, Brinc hasn’t let 2020 get in the way of its program for early-stage startups. The firm is known for focusing on food technology, health tech, clean energy and hardware, and has a knack for finding some of the most i... |
| 11.08.2020 | Meet The 12 Next-Gen Food Techs Transforming The Future Of Protein | 1
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Today (August 11), Big Idea Ventures (BIV) announces the launch of its second food technology accelerator program in New York City and Singapore. This year’s cohort includes 12 early-stage startups working in the plant... |
