Tag: Biotechnology

Shiok Meats and Minh Phu Seafood sign MOU to establish an R&D facility, advancing development and capabilities of Cultivated Seafood

Post author By AgReads®
Post date August 9, 2022

Shiok Meats Pte. Ltd. (Shiok Meats) and Minh Phu Seafood Joint Stock Company (Minh Phu Seafood) announced that they had signed an MOU to cooperatively carry out research and development (R&D) in the production of sustainable seafood, which includes setting up a joint R&D facility in Vietnam. The announcement is a step forward in sustainable […]

Tags Animal Health, Aquaculture, Biotechnology, Business Partnerships in Food and Farming, Cellular Agriculture, Ecofriendly, Fisheries, Food and Agribusiness, Food Processing, FoodTech, Human Health, Meat Alternatives, Nutrition, Pilot Production, Research, SeaFood, Shrimp, Sustainable Agriculture

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Biotech Food Colorant Startup Phytolon Closes $14.5 Million Series A Funding Round, Led by DSM Venturing

Post author By AgReads®
Post date July 6, 2022

Phytolon, a developer of fermentation-based natural food colors, announced today it has secured $14.5 million in funding, led by DSM Venturing, to further progress its technology towards commercialization, with participation from Cibus Fund, Ginkgo Bioworks (in-kind investment in the form of Foundry services) and The Trendlines Agrifood Fund. Participation in this Series A also includes […]

Tags Agricultural Technology Licensing, BioTech, Biotechnology, Fermentation, Food and Agribusiness, Food and Beverage, Food Colors, FoodTech, Fruits & Vegetables, Fund Raise, Investments, Natural Ingredients, Novel Foods, Nutrition, Sustainable Agriculture, tech transfer

AgTech FoodTech Meat Sustainability

BioBetter Breaks Bottleneck in Cultivated Meat with Tobacco Plants

Post author By AgReads®
Post date March 30, 2022

BioBetter Cultivated Meat with Tobacco Plants

FoodTech start-up, BioBetter, Ltd., has assigned a new role for the much-maligned Nicotiana tabacum plant upon discovering it can overcome the greatest hurdle in cultured meat—that of scaled production. Working behind the scenes of the emerging cultured meat industry, BioBetter is repurposing tobacco plants to create the growth factors necessary for the cellular development of […]

FoodTech Protein Sustainability

Wanda Fish Technologies Enters Collaboration with Tufts University

Post author By AgReads®
Post date March 23, 2022

FoodTech start-up Wanda Fish Technologies, Ltd. has signed two agreements with Tufts University to advance the company’s goals in the emerging field of cultivated fish. Under a licensing agreement, Wanda Fish gains exclusive rights to certain intellectual property in fish cell cultivation developed by Tufts researcher David Kaplan, a leader in the field of cellular […]

Tags Agricultural Grant, Agricultural Technology Licensing, AgTech, Biodiversity in Agriculture, Biotechnology, Cellular Agriculture, Ecofriendly, Fish, Food and Agribusiness, FoodTech, Intellectual Property Rights, Meat Alternatives, Nutrition, Proteins Alternatives, SeaFood, Sustainable Agriculture

FoodTech Natural Ingredients Sustainability

Phytolon and Ginkgo Bioworks Collaborate to Take Biological Production of Vibrant Food Colors to the Next Level

Post author By AgReads®
Post date March 2, 2022

Phytolon, a growing startup company making natural food colorants, announced a partnership with Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA), the leading horizontal platform for cell programming, to produce vibrant cultured food colors via fermentation of yeast. Under this partnership, Phytolon is leveraging Ginkgo’s ability to engineer biology at scale to work together on the production of vibrant […]

Tags Biotechnology, Business Partnerships in Food and Farming, Ecofriendly, Fermentation, Food and Agribusiness, Food Colors, Food Processing, FoodTech, Innovation in Food and Agribusiness, Natural Ingredients, Novel Foods, Sustainable Agriculture

AgTech Fund Raise Precision Agriculture

BigSis closes oversubscribed seed plus round at £1.5m

Post author By AgReads®
Post date October 14, 2021

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BigSis, the British agtech start-up promising low-regulation, chemical-free control for the majority of the world’s insect pests in horticulture and agriculture, announced today that it has closed its £1.5 million Seed Plus financing round, following success with key laboratory and testing milestones. The oversubscribed round attracted significant attention from family offices and high-net-worth individuals, including […]

Tags Agricultural Innovation, Agricultural Pest Management, Agricultural Tech - Farming Tech, Agriculture, AgTech, AgTech and FoodTech Funding, AgTech Startup, Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture, Biotechnology, Crop Protection, Farming - Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness, Fund Raise, Horticulture, Pesticide Residues in Agricultural Crops, Sustainable Agriculture

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Aleph Farms Completes $105 Million Series B Funding Round

Post author By AgReads®
Post date July 8, 2021

Leader in sustainable, cultivated meat will use funds to scale-up manufacturing and grow operations internationally ahead of initial market launch in 2022 Rehovot, Israel, July 8, 2021 – Aleph Farms, the cultivated meat company growing steaks directly from non-genetically modified animal cells, has announced the completion of a $105 million Series B funding round. The […]