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The maker of the ‘world’s first beanless espresso’ has opened a 33,547 sq ft roastery in Seattle, capable of producing four million pounds of ground ‘coffee’ a year from upcycled date pits. Why beanless? Well, despite coffee still being an affordable luxury now, the industry [...]

The Dutch cultivated meat pioneer, Mosa Meat, has secured €40 ($42.4) million in a new, oversubscribed funding round, taking the company’s total raised to more than $135 million. This marks the largest sum brought in by a cultivated meat company since November 2022. The funds [...]

The Bezos Earth Fund announced an initial $60 million commitment to establish ‘Bezos Centers for Sustainable Protein’ as part of the Bezos Earth Fund’s $1 billion commitment to transform food and agriculture systems to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The university research centers for sustainable proteins [...]

Planted launched its game-changing fermented beef fillet steak made from plants into restaurants across Europe! As the only plant-based steak on the market to use only natural ingredients and zero additives, it offers the health-conscious consumer a clean-label dining experience, with even the most discerning [...]

Our portfolio company, Cultivated Biosciences has successfully closed a $5 million seed funding round – marking a significant milestone for the Swiss biotechnology company amid a difficult fundraising environment. Cultivated Biosciences was founded in Zürich, Switzerland in 2021 with a mission to make animal free [...]

A new report from New York-based biotech company, Synonym, and Boston Consulting Group outlines a roadmap for the biomanufacturing industry to explode to a $200 billion market in specialty sectors over the next ten years. The report, titled “Breaking the Cost Barrier on Biomanufacturing” encourages [...]

Our West Sacramento-based portfolio company, California Cultured has teamed up with Japan’s largest chocolate company to bring cell-cultured chocolate to the market. This marks the first time that cell-cultured chocolate will enter any market worldwide. California Cultured harvests cells from a cocoa plant and cultivates [...]

Polybion announced its showcase at the Copenhagen Fashion Week, in a revolutionary collaboration with Danish fashion-brand GANNI. In the ‘Future, Talent, Fabrics’ exhibition hosted by GANNI, Polybion celebrated the intersection of creativity, biology, and sustainability, using its vegan leather alternative, or ‘Premium Cultivated Cellulose, Celium™ [...]

The UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) released a landmark report during the COP28 summit in Dubai, openly endorsing alternative proteins, including plant-based, cultivated, and fermented options, as a means to significantly reduce emissions, deforestation, water and soil pollution, biodiversity loss, and zoonotic disease risks associated with [...]

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released the first instalment of its roadmap at COP28, designed to map out the pathway needed to bring global food systems in line with climate goals (limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees) and to end hunger, as [...]

Food system conversations at this year’s COP28 UN climate summit kicked off with an announcement on the ‘COP28 UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems and Climate Action’. A declaration whereby endorsers agree to help strengthen food systems by building resilience to climate change, [...]

40% of the global population eat seafood as a primary protein source and it’s a market that’s set to more than double by 2030. Despite the growing awareness of microplastics taking over the seas, fish production being linked to child and slave labor, and rampant [...]

The Danish government has unveiled its first national action plan aimed at shifting the country toward a more plant-based food system. The plan, which was released by the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Fisheries of Denmark, is part of a political agricultural agreement from 2021 [...]

Congratulations to our portfolio company, Kern Tec, who raised €12 million ($12.8 million) in a Series A funding round to scale technology that turns food waste into food ingredients. The funds will help Kern Tec in scaling the production and commercialization of its sustainable ingredients [...]

Lidl Germany announced that it will price almost all of its own-brand vegan products under the Vemondo range at equal levels to their animal-based counterparts and will position these vegan products alongside their animal-based counterparts in all of its 3,250+ stores. The move is part [...]

GOOD Meat, the cultivated meat division of our portfolio company Eat Just, Inc., announced that a group of leading Islamic scholars advised that real meat made from cells, without raising and slaughtering animals can be considered halal if production meets certain criteria. This approval is [...]