Bill Gates invests in cell-based breast milk startup
In North Carolina, Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures has co-led an oversubscribed, $21-million Series A funding for cell-based breast milk startup Biomilq.
Using cellular agriculture...
Ajinomoto brings Mankai high protein plant products to the Japanese market
In Japan, Ajinomoto Co., Inc. acquired the exclusive sales rights in Japan for Mankai, a variety of the aquatic plant duckweed, by investing USD...
Fat fundraising: “Kosher bacon” startup raises $24 million
In California, lab-grown meat startup Mission Barns is focusing on fat but hopes in the longer term to be the first to claim production...
In a fast-food debut, White Castle serves Impossible Sliders
In New York, White Castle began serving the Impossible Slider in 140 locations throughout New York, New Jersey and Chicagoland. Making its fast-food debut,...
Liberation Labs reportedly planning $75 million Series A
In Indiana, Liberation Labs is set to launch a Series A financing round to help build its $115-million facility in Richmond.
The company was formed...
Jellatech raises $3.5 million for bio-identical collagen
In North Carolina, biotechnology company Jellatech has announced an oversubscribed, $3.5-million seed round as it looks to scale production of bio-identical human, bovine, and...
Nebraska lawmaker moves to ban cultivated meat
In Nebraska, Senator Barry DeKay has moved to “preserve and protect” the state’s agriculture industry by preemptively banning cultivated meat from manufacture, distribution or...
Air-to-meat startup raises $32 million
In California, a startup developing a process to convert air into meat has raised $32 million. Air Protein’s process feeds organisms water, nutrients and...
Coldplay-backed cultivated meat startup rebrands and raises $22 million
In San Francisco, a cultivated meat startup that counts rock group Coldplay among its investors has changed its name from Artemys Foods to SCiFi...
Sustainable furfriends: MewCULT Food Science and Umami Bioworks unveil cultivated cat treat
In Toronto, cellular ag firm CULT Food Science Corp. and Umami Bioworks, a cultivated seafood company based in Singapore, have unveiled a hybrid cell-cultivated...