Biotech startup's patent-pending discovery platform combines ML and biofermentation to produce plant-based alternatives to eggs, meat, dairy, and gelatin—using a fraction of the land, water, and energy of animal analogs
October 29, 2021
The company's patent-pending discovery platform combines machine-learning algorithms and a precision biofermentation process. The result is a spectrum of novel plant-based ingredients that require a small fraction of the land, energy, and water footprint of animal-derived eggs, meat, milk, and gelatins.
Funding will be used to accelerate research and development to enable commercialization of whole-muscle cut, sushi-quality filets
October 29, 2021
Food tech startup Aqua Cultured Foods announced it has closed an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round of $2.1 million, a high-water mark in the category of seafood alternatives, and one of the largest pre-seed rounds for companies using fermentation for alt-proteins.
Dr. Robert Kiss as to assume role as executive vice president of technical operations
October 28, 2021
Dr. Kiss has three decades of industrial biotechnology experience and will oversee all of the company's technical operations and processes for producing cultivated meat at research through commercial scales.
Fifteen startups will showcase innovations at FoodBytes! Pitch on November 10
October 26, 2021
The finalists were chosen amongst the cohort of 45 global startups previously selected as participants in FoodBytes! Pitch 2021, Rabobank's multi-week food and agriculture innovation program that drives collaboration between startups, corporate leaders and investors to develop solutions to food system challenges.
Kemin Food Technologies shares sustainability video, its story
October 25, 2021
Kemin Industries has released a new video, “The Journey to Sustainability,” which highlights the importance of sustainability, particularly for the Kemin Food Technologies – Americas business unit, and the ways Kemin practices and measures company efforts
The change honors that the company has evolved beyond its dairy roots and today serves a wide variety of business-to-business customers in a full spectrum of food solutions
October 22, 2021
Darifair Foods, a culinary and food science-focused provider of flavor and functional ingredients for restaurants and food manufacturers, announced a new company name and brand identity: Rubix Foods.
Industry veteran Phil Kafarakis to take on role as CEO
October 21, 2021
Beginning Nov. 1, 2021, Kafarakis will be responsible for overseeing IFMA's day-to-day operations and will direct the activities of the association in support of policies, goals and objectives established by its Board of Directors.
New partnership agreement begins with a landmark production run of a product containing cultivated meat
October 21, 2021
Mission Barns cultivates its fat using a patented process to grow real animal cells without the animal. This process allows for the efficient production of meat in a far more sustainable and climate-friendly way than conventional animal agriculture.