AgFunder Global AgriFoodTech Investment Report 2023
Global investment in foodtech and agtech (agrifoodtech) startups totaled $29.6bn in 2022, a 44% decline on record-breaking 2021 levels. The…
Multus Biotechnology Raises $9.5m Series A To Build Growth Media Production Plant
Multus Biotechnology, a UK-based startup, has announced the close of a $9.5 million Series A investment round to build a…
Black Sheep Foods raises $12.3m for plant based meat
Black Sheep Foods has raised $12.3 million in finance from Unovis, Bessemer Venture Partners, AgFunder, and Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed’s…
How can governments advance alternative proteins?
In a couple of years, consumers will get to try pulled pork and dumplings made by mixing cell-based meat with…
Beef, Pork, Chicken, Fish: Where The Money Is Going In Alt Meat
Funding in the cultivated meat space has reached close to $700 million so far in 2022, per Crunchbase data. Meanwhile,…
MeatTech, Producer of 3D Printed Cultured Meat, Announces $6.5M Registered Direct Offering
MeaTech 3D Ltd., a cultivated meat pioneer, announces it has entered a definitive agreement with a U.S. institutional investor for…
Faux Leather, Real Money: Fabric Funding Sizzles As Startups Spin Out Cell-Grown Leather And More
This week was a case in point, with Silicon Valley-based VitroLabs, a developer of cell-cultivated leather, closing on $46 million…
Seedrs and Vevolution partner to fund plant-based and cell-based start-ups
One of Europe’s leading equity crowdfunding platforms, Seedrs, has teamed up with the global investment marketplace Vevolution to give a…
Nowadays puts its spin on plant-based nuggets
The latest company to attract venture capital is Nowadays, a company founded in San Francisco in 2020 as a Public…
CellMEAT, a South Korean lab-grown shrimp producer, bags $8.1M Series A funding
As consumers’ interest in the environment and nutrition rises, food-tech companies join the race to invent meat alternatives. In 2021,…