Tempura tech: San Fran restaurant serves cultivated chicken from Upside Foods
In San Francisco, a few lucky taste testers won a contest to be among the first in America to eat cultivated chicken at a...
Plant-based cheesemaker raises $7.5 million
In California, plant-based food start-up Climax Foods has raised $7.5 million. The company’s initial focus will be on developing a fermentation-based process to make cheese,...
Yumble expands kid-friendly home meal delivery
In New York, Yumble, a home-delivery kids' food service, closed Series A funding having raised $8.5 million to date. By shipping kid-friendly lunches, dinners,...
The Beyond Burger is coming to Safeway stores in Northern California, Nevada and Hawaii
In California, Beyond Meat announced that the Beyond Burger will be available in the meat section of Safeway grocery stores, beginning Memorial Day weekend...
Food science thrives in the Garden State
In New Jersey, Nestlé recent decision to site its health science research within the state’s bioscience corridor demonstrates the region’s competence in food innovation.
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Ginkgo Bioworks, NAMUH ink infant nutrition pact
In Boston, infant nutrition company NAMUH and cell programming giant Ginkgo Bioworks have announced a multi-product collaboration to develop Human Milk Oligosaccharides (HMOs) structurally...
Cell cultured chocolate startup raises $4 million
In Davis, a lab-grown chocolate startup has raised $4 million to advance its technology, which is aimed at addressing the negative environmental and labor...
Nestlé USA invests in Freshly to expand direct-to-consumer healthy prepared meals nationwide
In Virginia, Nestlé USA acquired a minority interest in Freshly, a leading provider of direct-to-consumer healthy prepared meals. As the lead investor in the...
Mosa Meat closes $85 million Series B round
In the Netherlands, lab-grown meat startup Mosa Meat has closed on an additional $10 million in funding, bringing its total Series B investment round...
Nestlé Health Science partners with Codexis to develop novel enzyme products
In California, Codexis, Inc. and Nestlé Health Science announced a strategic collaboration encompassing multiple projects accessing Codexis’ CodeEvolver protein engineering platform. The collaboration includes...