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,…
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…
Lab-grown meat start-ups hope to make strides in 2022
Cultivated or cultured meats are real animal products made in labs and commercial production facilities. Right now, the process is…
Cultured Meat Startup Meatable Raises $47 Million Series A
Dutch cultured meat startup Meatable announced today that it has raised a $47 million Series A round of funding. Investors…
Bill Gates Wants Us to Eat 100% Synthetic Beef: What Is It?
Meanwhile, Memphis Meats, which Gates namechecked in the Technology Review interview, wants to avoid animals altogether whenever possible—including by harvesting…
Alternative meat and dairy companies are raking in investment
“Cultivated” or “cell-based” meat companies, growing food from animal cells, raised 417% more than in all of 2019. In part,…
Powerful investors get behind alternative meat sector
“There is a lot of big names who have been supporting the alternative meat industry and those big names have…
KBW Ventures invests in US-based Memphis Meats
UAE-based KBW Ventures, the venture capital (VC) firm founded by Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed, son of Saudi Arabia billionaire Prince…
Wild Type Raises $12.5M Series A to Accelerate Production of its Cultured Salmon
Wild Type, a startup developing cultured salmon (that is, fish grown from cells outside the animal), announced today that it…