Caladan Bio—a startup developing a lower-cost benchtop bioreactor system designed to enhance data capture and increase experimentation throughput—has raised a $5m seed round led by Twelve Below #syntheticbiology #biomanufacturing #bioreactors tinyurl.com/55c9e8r5

Shiru is launching a first-of-its-kind discovery platform & marketplace for proteins, enabling companies in multiple industries to harness its AI and machine learning capabilities to identify and test proteins from high-intensity sweeteners to emulsifiers tinyurl.com/3k4ta45a

Exec summary: Climate Capital: Financing Adaptation Pathways for Smallholder Farmers - the pressing need & opportunities for private investment in climate adaptation in emerging markets' agriculture sectors + pivotal role played by smallholder farmers ➡️ agfunder.com/research/clima…

Indian agrifoodtech investment dropped 60% to $1 billion in 2023, but deal activity remained the same. So, how did that happen & who's still investing? Our 6th India AgriFoodTech Investment Report - produced in partnership with Omnivore - OUT NOW ➡️ bit.ly/AGFUNDERINDIA24

With investment totals down considerably, who was still investing in India's agrifood industry in 2023, and what kinds of businesses kept deal activity high? New India #AgriFoodTech #investment report, produced in partnership with Meth Gator.vc, out Tuesday.
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Plant-based cheesemaker Climax Foods has been abruptly disqualified from the prestigious #GoodFoodAwards on the eve of the awards ceremony on April 29 having been told it was a winner three months ago. #plantbased #foodtech tinyurl.com/4c45r5pe

We caught up with Nosh.bio cofounders Tim Fronzek and Dr. Felipe Lino to talk fungi, funding, and the inevitable comparisons with Quorn… #mycoprotein #mycelium #fungi #biomassfermentation #foodtech

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💪 Welcome to the AgFunder family #KEY ! This all-natural, no sugar, low caffeine #energydrink harnesses the power of #ketones to activate the body’s ability to make energy ➡ agfundernews.com/ketones-will-f…

Ketones will fuel the next generation of energy drinks, say ex-Pepsi & Coke execs behind KEY, as AgFunder leads $4m seed round tinyurl.com/yshea6sa

#Asparagopsis is one of the most promising tools in the enteric #methanereduction toolkit, but there are challenges to growing it at scale and establishing tools to deliver a return on investment for farmers, says FutureFeed . tinyurl.com/yas3w6x2

Atomo—maker of the ‘world’s first beanless espresso’—has opened a 33,547sq ft roastery in Seattle capable of producing four million pounds of ground ‘coffee’ a year from upcycled date pits. tinyurl.com/armzry2w

While unit sales of most #plantbased categories in US retail fell in 2023, there were bright spots, notably in plant-based creamers, with dollar sales up 10% to $701m and units up 4% (while unit sales of conventional creamers fell 1%), says The Good Food Institute tinyurl.com/tzmpmmaw

Plant-based by numbers (USA): Continued declines for alt meat, more positive news for alt dairy – GFI #plantbased #altmeat #foodtech The Good Food Institute SPINS tinyurl.com/ywc2c86k

Less than a year after emerging from stealth with an “elegant solution” to scaling #cultivatedmeat , Omeat is operating with a skeleton crew following a turbulent few months during which the founder stepped down as CEO tinyurl.com/a845zxrw

OlsAro—a startup developing wheat varieties resilient to environmental stressors—has raised a €2.5m ($2.7m) seed round led by Future Food Fund and PINC, the venture arm of Paulig, with participation by AgFunder , FLORA Ventures and Mudcake. tinyurl.com/ycydbnry

.Nobell Foods - a #molecularfarming startup engineering plants to produce animal proteins in what it claims is a more sustainable and ultimately more efficient manner—has secured its 10th US patent and rebranded as Alpine Bio. tinyurl.com/mr3wppct

EXCLUSIVE: Perfect Day —a pioneer in the #animalfree dairy space making whey protein via #precisionfermentation —has been sued by its Italian contract manufacturing partner Olon for breach of contract, fraudulent inducement, and fraudulent concealment tinyurl.com/3frbtn4y

It's no coincidence that 87% of Australian agrifoodtech funding last year went to upstream startups focused on climate change mitigation. Check out the top Top 10 Aussie funding rounds in 2023...
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.Maia Farms & ecoation have bagged the grand prize from the Canadian Space Agency & Impact Canada in the Deep Space Food Challenge with a growing system for mycelium & fresh produce that can make 700kg of fresh food a year in a device the size of a wardrobe... tinyurl.com/4pbker5z

.Innovafeed: 'We have to find a balance between scaling up as fast as possible and making sure that the technology choices we’re making are the right ones. We’ve gone for fairly ambitious size plants but we’re de-risking them by building them in phases' tinyurl.com/bdh4562n