| Date | Title | Description |
| 31.03.2026 | Standing Ovation raises $34.2 million to scale up its breakthrough technology for producing dairy proteins through precision fermentation, offering a sovereign and sustainable response to the surge in... | Paris, 31 March 2026 - Standing Ovation, a French precision fermentation pioneer producing next-
generation proteins, has announced a $34.2 million (€30 million) Series... |
| 31.03.2026 | Standing Ovation nets $34m, gears up for US launch of casein via precision fermentation | French startup Standing Ovation has raised a €25 million ($28.5 million) Series B round and secured an additional €5 million ($5.7 million) in non-dilutive funding to scale dairy proteins via precision fermentation.
The round was jointly le... |
| 20.10.2025 | Standing Ovation and Bel Group Achieve Milestone with Industrial-Scale Production of Caseins from Whey | A recent collaboration between French biotech company Standing Ovation and Bel Group has led to the successful industrial-scale production of caseins derived from dairy serums. This process, which utilizes precision fermentation, is a signi... |
| 11.09.2025 | Mars Snacking and Unreasonable Group Welcome Fourteen New Ventures to Unreasonable Food™ | As an international network, Unreasonable Food is uniquely positioned to scale high-growth ventures dedicated to creating a more sustainable food system.
NEW YORK, Sept. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, as part of the Unreasonable Food™ coll... |
| 27.08.2025 | Astanor’s Eric Archambeau on agrifoodtech investing: ‘It annoys me when people say ‘That will never work’ | When the music stopped and the spigot of money pouring into the agrifoodtech sector started to run dry in early 2022, the segment was left with “far fewer chairs than players,” observes Astanor cofounder and managing partner Eric Archambeau... |
| 28.04.2025 | Standing Ovation and Tetra Pak Partner to Scale Alternative Dairy Proteins | French biotechnology firm Standing Ovation and global food processing leader Tetra Pak® have formed a new partnership focused on optimizing the industrial production of alternative caseins via precision fermentation. The collaboration follo... |
| 13.01.2025 | Standing Ovation Partners With Ajinomoto Foods Europe to Produce Animal-Free Caseins at Scale | Standing Ovation, a French biotech company specialising in precision fermentation applied to dairy proteins, has announced a long-term strategic partnership with Ajinomoto Foods Europe (AFE).
AFE is an affiliate of Japan’s Ajinomoto Group w... |
| 16.09.2024 | Standing Ovation: A New Dawn for Animal-Free Dairy | In the world of food innovation, Standing Ovation is a rising star. This French biotech company is on a mission to transform the dairy landscape. With a recent funding boost of €3.75 million, the company is set to accelerate its production ... |
| 16.09.2024 | Standing Ovation Raises €3.75M in Series A+ Round, Appoints New CEO to Begin Animal-Free Casein Sales in 2025 | 4 Mins Read French precision fermentation startup Standing Ovation has raised €3.75M in a Series A extension and appointed a new CEO to begin selling its Advanced Casein next year.
Parisian food tech startup Standing Ovation is gearing up f... |
| 16.09.2024 | Standing Ovation Raises €3.75M for Fermented Casein, Eyes 2025 USA Launch with New CEO | French biotech Standing Ovation, which specializes in precision-fermented casein for animal-free dairy, announces it has raised €3.75 million in Series A+ funding. The funds will accelerate the company’s growth and the distribution and sale... |
| 13.09.2024 | Standing Ovation raises €3.75M for animal-free protein production | French precision fermentation company Standing Ovation has raised a €3.75 million extension to its Series A funding round. This brings the company’s total funds raised to €23 million over the past four years.
Founded in 2020, the company en... |
| 16.07.2024 | World’s largest mozzarella maker Leprino Foods to commercialize animal-free casein from Dutch startup Fooditive Group | Colorado-based Leprino Foods, the world’s largest manufacturer of mozzarella cheese, has struck a global licensing deal with Dutch startup Fooditive Group giving the dairy giant exclusive rights to produce casein made via Fooditive’s precis... |
| 15.05.2024 | Peakbridge closes $187m Growth Fund II, homes in on disruptive potential of AI | Agrifoodtech investor PeakBridge has closed its Growth Fund II at $187 million in partnership with Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity, bringing its total AUM (assets under management) to more than $250 million.
The fund targets series A an... |
| 22.02.2024 | Unilever enters ‘animal-free dairy’ arena via Breyers brand in tie up with Perfect Day | CPG giant Unilever has teamed up with Perfect Day to launch a lactose-free chocolate frozen dairy dessert under the Breyers brand, using whey protein made in fermentation tanks by microbes, rather than cows.
The ‘animal-free frozen dairy de... |
| 19.02.2024 | Fonterra/DSM JV Vivici unveils whey protein from fermentation: ‘We are already at commercially viable titers’ | Vivici—a joint venture formed by Fonterra and DSM to disrupt the emerging ‘animal-free dairy’ category—says it is already in a position to supply commercial quantities of whey protein from fermentation to the US market, just over a year aft... |
| 10.01.2024 | Paris-based foodtech Standing Ovation receives €3 million to begin industrialization phase of non-animal casein | - |
| 09.01.2024 | Standing Ovation Receives €3M from French Government and Bpifrance to Scale Non-Animal Caseins for Novel Dairy Products | French biotech Standing Ovation has secured €3 million in funding from the French government and Bpifrance for its CASPEX project: the production at scale of precision fermentation-derived caseins for novel dairy products.
“This financing a... |
| 27.06.2023 | Animal-Free Casein Producer Standing Ovation Joins Precision Fermentation Trade Organizations | Standing Ovation, a French company that produces animal-free casein using precision fermentation, has joined the Precision Fermentation Alliance (PFA) and Food Fermentation Europe (FFE).
The two trade organizations represent the precision f... |
| 11.04.2023 | BREAKING: Babybel maker Bel Group invests in AI-powered startup Climax Foods; will co-create ‘best-in-class’ plant-based cheeses | Bel Group—the multinational firm behind cheese brands Babybel, The Laughing Cow, and Boursin—has teamed up with AI-powered startup Climax Foods to develop plant-based versions of its iconic brands for launch in Europe and the US by the end ... |
| 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 ... |
| 17.11.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Muncher grabs $27m for ghost kitchens, Freight Farms lands $17.5m | Besides a major milestone for cultivated meat, this week’s news also includes new fundraising for Colombian ghost kitchen startup Muncher and a Series B round for vertical farming startup Freight Farms. Meanwhile, it’s more bad news for foo... |
| 05.10.2022 | Gourmey grabs $48 million to keep working on lab-grown foie gras | French startup Gourmey just raised a Series A funding round led by Earlybird Venture Capital. In total, the company banked $48 million (€48 million). The company has been working on cultivated meat, and more specifically lab-grown foie gras... |
| 16.09.2022 | Standing Ovation Closes €12 Million Series A for Precision Fermentation Casein | 3 Mins Read
Paris-based food tech company Standing Ovation has closed an oversubscribed €12 million Series A financing round to scale its animal-free casein and alt-cheese products. The new funding was led by Astanor Ventures, with particip... |
| 15.09.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: PepsiCo. & ADM partner on regen ag, Biden bets on cultivated meat | This week, PepsiCo. and ADM made a major announcement that could boost regenerative agriculture practices in the US, while President Biden signed an executive order impacting cultivated meat. France’s Capagro launched a $200 million agrifoo... |
| 15.09.2022 | Paris-based foodtech startup Standing Ovation wraps up €12 million funding round to develop sustainable milk protein alternatives | - |
| 14.09.2022 | Where’s the smart money going in food tech? From precision nutrition to enabling tech for alt meat, dairy. In conversation with PeakBridge | Targeting series A and B companies in ingredients innovation, alt protein technologies, digitalization, nutrition & health, and alternative farming systems across Europe, Israel, and the US, four months after launch, PeakBridge Growth I... |
| 14.09.2022 | French food tech company Standing Ovation nabs $12 million for animal-free dairy cheese | The burgeoning food tech revolution continues apace with news that French startup Standing Ovation has raised €12 million ($12 million) in a series A round of funding to develop an animal-free casein for use in cheese.
Casein, for the unini... |
| 14.09.2022 | Foodtech startup STANDING OVATION closes a €12M Series A financing round to accelerate the development of its animal-free casein and cheese substitute production process | STANDING OVATION, a player in the food transition, announced today a Series A financing round of €12 million led by Astanor Ventures, with the participation of Peakbridge,... |
| 14.09.2022 | BREAKING: PeakBridge Growth Fund II holds first close on €100m, makes first 2 investments | Agrifoodtech investment manager PeakBridge VC has completed the first close in its PeakBridge Growth II fund in partnership with Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity. The fund will start to deploy its first €100 million ($100 million), begin... |
| - | Standing Ovation | “Standing Ovation animal-free dairy cheese” |
| - | Standing Ovation | “Animal-free dairy cheese” |
| - | Standing Ovation | “We are a French Protein Company that relies on precision fermentation to create alternative proteins with advanced functionalities.” |
