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| 14.05.2024 | New Culture Partners with CJ CheilJedang to Streamline Costs of Animal-Free Mozzarella | Californian animal-free cheese producer New Culture announces a partnership with its previous investor, South Korean biotech giant CJ CheilJedang.
New Culture develops casein from precision fermentation to make cow-free cheeses that melt, s... |
| 21.02.2024 | ‘World’s Most Abundant Protein’ Cheap Enough to Replace Soy: Upcycled Rubisco Protein Startup Day 8 Nabs $750K Pre-Seed | 5 Mins Read Israeli startup Day 8, which produces upcycled plant-based proteins from Rubisco, has secured a pre-seed investment of $750,000 from food tech incubator and investor The Kitchen Hub.
Day 8 has closed a $750,000 pre-seed financin... |
| 20.02.2024 | Day 8 emerges from stealth with plans to extract ‘holy grail of proteins’ from ag waste | Israeli startup Day 8 has emerged from stealth armed with $750,000 pre-seed funding from The Kitchen FoodTech Hub to develop an approach it claims could change the economics of RuBisCO protein by extracting it from discarded crop leaves.
On... |
| 26.10.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: URB-E pivots to last-mile delivery, GoodBytz bags $12m, a new fund for regen ag | This week, URB-E, a company best known for developing e-scooters, took a sharp left turn with both its business and its brand. And while funding rounds are low and slow of late, they nonetheless trickle in despite the tough economic times. ... |
| 23.10.2023 | Plantible teams up with ICL to create Rubisco-powered clean label binder that ‘outperforms methylcellulose by a mile’ | San Diego-based startup Plantible Foods has teamed up with ICL Food Specialties to create a clean label alternative to methylcellulose, a chemically modified binder that has become ubiquitous in meat alternatives.
Featuring RuBisCO (‘Rubi P... |
| 10.10.2023 | Meet the Startups Working with the Climate-Positive Alt-Protein Superfood That Grows Everywhere | 8 Mins Read In a world increasingly ravaged by the climate crisis and food insecurity, one crop could be a solution to meeting our future nutritional, environmental and health needs. Find out more about the startups growing duckweed, the fu... |
| 02.10.2023 | The 68 most important VCs in New York, according to other VCs | From left: Ben Sun of Primary; Anu Duggal of Female Founders Fund; Susan Lyne of BBG Ventures; Josh Wolfe of Lux Capital. Ben Sun, Anu Duggal, Susan Lyne, Josh Wolfe This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insi... |
| 27.06.2023 | Plantible Foods launches plant-based egg replacer that ‘outperforms eggs’ | Plantible Foods—a startup extracting a highly functional protein from fast-growing aquatic plant lemna—has opened a 140-acre lemna farm in Texas and launched its first product: Rubi Whisk, a plant-based egg replacer it claims can “outperfor... |
| 27.05.2022 | Increase in Veganism Propels Demand For Duckweed, One of World’s Most Sustainable & Nutritious Plants | The aquatic plant duckweed, also known as lemna or the water lentil, is considered to be one of the most sustainable and nutrient-dense plants in the world.
Duckweed protein is witnessing growth according to a new market report that states ... |
| 14.10.2021 | Plantible Receives $21.5M in Series A Funding that will be used to build its first commercial facility to commericalize their product line | - |
| 14.10.2021 | Plantible closes Series A funding round of $21.5M that will be used to develop the commercialization of its product in 2022 | - |
| 13.10.2021 | Plantible closes Series A funding round of $21.5M that will be used to develop the commercialization of its product in 2022 | - |
| 13.10.2021 | Plantible Receives $21.5M in Series A Funding that will be used to build its first commercial facility to commericalize their product line | - |
| 11.10.2021 | Plantible Receives $21.5M in Series A Funding that will be used to build its first commercial facility to commericalize their product line | - |
| 11.10.2021 | Plantible closes Series A funding round of $21.5M that will be used to develop the commercialization of its product in 2022 | - |
| 10.10.2021 | Plantible Receives $21.5M in Series A Funding that will be used to build its first commercial facility to commericalize their product line | - |
| 10.10.2021 | Plantible closes Series A funding round of $21.5M that will be used to develop the commercialization of its product in 2022 | - |
| 09.10.2021 | Plantible Receives $21.5M in Series A Funding that will be used to build its first commercial facility to commericalize their product line | - |
| 09.10.2021 | Plantible closes Series A funding round of $21.5M that will be used to develop the commercialization of its product in 2022 | - |
| 08.10.2021 | Plantible closes Series A funding round of $21.5M that will be used to develop the commercialization of its product in 2022 | - |
| 08.10.2021 | Plantible Receives $21.5M in Series A Funding that will be used to build its first commercial facility to commericalize their product line | - |
| 07.10.2021 | Plantible Receives $21.5M in Series A Funding that will be used to build its first commercial facility to commericalize their product line | - |
| 07.10.2021 | Plantible closes Series A funding round of $21.5M that will be used to develop the commercialization of its product in 2022 | - |
| 03.10.2021 | Plantible closes Series A funding round of $21.5M that will be used to develop the commercialization of its product in 2022 | - |
| 03.10.2021 | Plantible Receives $21.5M in Series A Funding that will be used to build its first commercial facility to commericalize their product line | - |
| 02.10.2021 | Plantible Receives $21.5M in Series A Funding that will be used to build its first commercial facility to commericalize their product line | - |
| 02.10.2021 | Plantible closes Series A funding round of $21.5M that will be used to develop the commercialization of its product in 2022 | - |
| 29.09.2021 | Plantible closes Series A funding round of $21.5M that will be used to develop the commercialization of its product in 2022 | - |
| 29.09.2021 | Plantible Receives $21.5M in Series A Funding that will be used to build its first commercial facility to commericalize their product line | - |
| 26.09.2021 | Plantible closes Series A funding round of $21.5M that will be used to develop the commercialization of its product in 2022 | - |
| 26.09.2021 | Plantible Receives $21.5M in Series A Funding that will be used to build its first commercial facility to commericalize their product line | - |
| 23.09.2021 | Plantible Receives $21.5M in Series A Funding that will be used to build its first commercial facility to commericalize their product line | - |
| 23.09.2021 | Plantible closes Series A funding round of $21.5M that will be used to develop the commercialization of its product in 2022 | - |
| 22.09.2021 | Plantible Receives $21.5M in Series A Funding that will be used to build its first commercial facility to commericalize their product line | - |
| 22.09.2021 | Plantible closes Series A funding round of $21.5M that will be used to develop the commercialization of its product in 2022 | - |
| 21.09.2021 | Plantible closes Series A funding round of $21.5M that will be used to develop the commercialization of its product in 2022 | - |
| 21.09.2021 | Plantible Receives $21.5M in Series A Funding that will be used to build its first commercial facility to commericalize their product line | - |
| 20.09.2021 | Plantible Receives $21.5M in Series A Funding that will be used to build its first commercial facility to commericalize their product line | - |
| 20.09.2021 | Plantible closes Series A funding round of $21.5M that will be used to develop the commercialization of its product in 2022 | - |
| 19.09.2021 | Plantible closes Series A funding round of $21.5M that will be used to develop the commercialization of its product in 2022 | - |
| 19.09.2021 | Plantible Receives $21.5M in Series A Funding that will be used to build its first commercial facility to commericalize their product line | - |
| 18.09.2021 | Plantible closes Series A funding round of $21.5M that will be used to develop the commercialization of its product in 2022 | - |
| 18.09.2021 | Plantible Receives $21.5M in Series A Funding that will be used to build its first commercial facility to commericalize their product line | - |
| 17.09.2021 | Plantible closes Series A funding round of $21.5M that will be used to develop the commercialization of its product in 2022 | - |
| 16.09.2021 | Plantible Foods Nets $21.5M Series A Funding | Photo Courtesy of Plantible Foods The Plantible Foods team floats in a field of lemna, the plant used to produce the company’s plant-based protein. Plantible Foods, a local agriculture-tech start-up developing a plant-based protein, raised ... |
| 14.09.2021 | Plantible closes Series A funding round of $21.5M that will be used to develop the commercialization of its product in 2022 | - |
| 09.09.2021 | Plantible closes Series A funding round of $21.5M that will be used to develop the commercialization of its product in 2022 | - |
| 08.09.2021 | Plantible closes Series A funding round of $21.5M that will be used to develop the commercialization of its product in 2022 | - |
| 07.09.2021 | Plantible closes Series A funding round of $21.5M that will be used to develop the commercialization of its product in 2022 | - |
| 06.09.2021 | Plantible closes Series A funding round of $21.5M that will be used to develop the commercialization of its product in 2022 | - |
| 05.09.2021 | Plantible closes Series A funding round of $21.5M that will be used to develop the commercialization of its product in 2022 | - |
| 04.09.2021 | Plant protein that behaves like animal protein? Lemna-fueled Plantible Foods raises $21.5m, gears up for 2022 launch | - |
| 04.09.2021 | Plantible To Launch Duckweed Protein Next Year After $21.5M Series A | 3 Mins Read
Plantible Foods, the company behind the duckweed-based protein, has just secured $21.5 million in its Series A round. The funding will go towards building its first commercial-scale production facility, ahead of its plan to laun... |
| 04.09.2021 | Plantible closes Series A funding round of $21.5M that will be used to develop the commercialization of its product in 2022 | - |
| 03.09.2021 |
Plantible Harvests $21.5M To Turn Duckweed Into Protein For Humans
| San Diego-based Plantible Foods, a startup developing a system to use Lemna--otherwise known as duckweed--as a protein source for humans, has raised $21.5M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by Astanor Ventures, and also included Pi... |
| 02.09.2021 | Plantible raises $21.5 million to scale duckweed-based protein | SAN DIEGO — Food technology company Plantible Foods Inc. raised $21.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Astanor Ventures, with participation from Piva Capital, CJ CheilJedang and Good Friends.
Google executive Bradley Horowitz, Mam... |
| 02.09.2021 | Plantible Foods Scores $21.5M Series A Round |
SAN DIEGO, CA, Food-tech company Plantible Foods announced today the closing of a $21.5 million Series A funding round.
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| 02.09.2021 | Plantible Receives $21.5M in Series A Funding that will be used to build its first commercial facility to commericalize their product line | - |
| 02.09.2021 | San Diego’s Plantible Secures $21.5M For Alt Meat & Dairy Created From One of World’s Most Sustainable Plant Proteins | Plantible Foods announces it has closed a $21.5 million Series A funding round led by Astanor Ventures, making a total raise of $27 million to date. The startup’s proprietary plant protein Rubi Protein™ harnesses lemna, an aquatic plant com... |
| 02.09.2021 | Plantible Raises $21.5M in Series A Funding | Plantible, a San Diego CA-based food-tech/biotech company, raised $21.5M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Astanor Ventures with participation from Piva Capital, CJ CheilJedang, Good Friends, Bradley Horowitz (SVP of Product at Goog... |
| 01.09.2021 | Will the war for talent spur dealmaking? | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Talent is a priority for companies this year, according to KPMG CEO Paul Knopp.
Burnt out workers... |
| 01.09.2021 | Plant protein that behaves like animal protein? Lemna-fueled Plantible Foods raises $21.5m, gears up for 2022 launch | The cash injection, bringing its cumulative funding to $27m, will enable Plantible Foods (currently operating at pilot scale in San Diego) to build its first commercial facility (in the Midwest) and introduce food formulators to a plant-... |
| 01.09.2021 | Will the war for talent spur dealmaking? | Talent is a priority for companies this year, according to KPMG CEO Paul Knopp.
Burnt out workers are looking for new jobs while companies are doing the previously unthinkable—raising wages—in a bid to keep them. At the same time in venture... |
| 28.08.2020 | From Francis Ford Coppola to foodtech: FTW Ventures’ Brian Frank on latest fund | San Francisco-based FTW Ventures describes itself as the “secret force” behind some big changes coming to the food system. This week it announced a new $4 million agrifoodtech fund, which has already made five investments and is targeting 1... |
| 07.05.2020 | EXCLUSIVE: Lemna cultivator DryGro closes $4.7m Series A to sustainably replace soy in livestock feed | There is huge scope for improvement in the farming of aquatic crops. Historically, these were overlooked in favor of soil-based staples. So most startups diving into the aquatic crop world need to wrestle with a legacy of incomplete plant s... |
| 05.05.2020 | Plantible Foods raises $4.6M pre-seed funding round led by Unshackled Ventures for Commercializing Plant-based Protein | - |
| 30.04.2020 | Plantible raises $4.6 million seed round for an egg white replacement that isn’t aquafaba | When California announced a statewide lockdown, Tony Martens and Maurits van de Ven decided to stay put instead of heading home to Amsterdam.
So, the co-founders of Plantible bought two trailers and started living at their HQ: a two-acre du... |
| 27.04.2020 | Plantible Foods Secures $4.6 M for “World’s Most Sustainable Protein” Derived From Aquatic Duckweed | ©Plantible Foods
Plantible Foods announces $4.6 million in investment for a proprietary plant protein created by harnessing lemna, an aquatic plant commonly known as duckweed which is considered to be one of the most sustainable and nutrien... |
| 27.04.2020 | Plantible Foods Secures $4.6 M for “World’s Most Sustainable Protein” Derived From Aquatic Duckweed | Plantible Foods announces $4.6 million in investment for a proprietary plant protein created by harnessing lemna, an aquatic plant commonly known as duckweed which is considered to be one of the most sustainable and nutrient-dense plants in... |
| 19.12.2018 | Plantible Foods: “We are on a Mission to Create a Truly Sustainable Global Food System” | California-based Plantible Foods is on the mission to revolutionise the food industry by developing the most functional and sustainable plant protein using lemna (also known as duckweed). Being 50,000 times more protein efficient than beef ... |
| 06.11.2018 | California Company is Cultivating “World’s Best and Most Sustainable Plant-based Protein” | Plantible Foods is creating plant-based protein made of aquatic plant lemna, commonly known as duckweed, which is neutral in colour and taste and has the characteristics of an egg white. Plantible says that they are “on a mission to revolut... |
| 17.10.2018 | Plantible Foods targets food industry with plant-based duckweed protein that ‘functions like an egg white’ | Strong consumer interest and the rising number of plant-based products entering the market has fueled the plant-based food industry, which saw dollar sales grow 20% in 2018 compared to last year reaching $3.3bn, according to Plant Based Foo... |
| - | Piva Capital: A Venture Capital Firm Investing In Transformative Energy And Industrial Companies | Piva Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm investing in disruptive energy and industrial companies across North America and Europe.
The firm’s team of seven full-time investors and eight advisors focuses on finding and backi... |
