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| 17.07.2024 | Biotech company to develop sustainable protein from carbon emissions | SUNNYVALE, CALIF. — Biotechnology company NovoNutrients closed its Series A funding round on July 16, raising $18 million to help fund the development of sustainable, premium proteins. The company specializes in transforming carbon emission... |
| 05.07.2024 | 10 Molecular Farming Startups Transforming Everyday Plants into Protein Powerhouses | Today, we bring you a roundup of molecular farming startups transforming plants into biofactories to produce alternatives to animal proteins, pigments, next-gen sweeteners, and growth factors.
Plant molecular farming, an additional producti... |
| 06.05.2024 | How to choose a deep tech startup program | Plenty of founders have a difficult decision to make early in their journey: where to set up shop.
For deep tech founders, the decision is complicated by the fact that they typically need more from their space. Some might need lab benches, ... |
| 05.01.2024 | Meet the founder. Vertical Oceans’ John Diener on high-tech shrimp farming, “I have this obsession with efficiency’ | Coastal shrimp farming comes with a laundry list of problems, from slave labor and the destruction of mangrove forests and wetlands, to the pollution of waterways with organic waste, chemicals and antibiotics. It is also vulnerable to di... |
| 22.12.2023 | A first look at nine new IndieBio NY companies that will present to VCs next month | It was pure coincidence, but months before the pandemic took hold around the world, IndieBio — a startup accelerator devoted to startups using biology to solve large problems — expanded its remit, adding a New York arm to the operations it ... |
| 25.10.2023 | GOZEN Secures $3.3M to Produce Plastic-Free Vegan Biomaterial (Stronger than Animal Leather) at Scale | US biomaterials startup GOZEN announces a $3.3 million raise in a seed funding round to scale the production of LUNAFORM, a vegan and plastic-free biomaterial made by microorganisms.
The biobased material has multiple applications in the fa... |
| 24.07.2023 | Lessons learned from a decade of investing in cellular ag with SOSV’s Bill Liao | “There is an enormously bright future for precision fermentation and cellular agriculture; the efficiencies alone make that true,” Bill Liao, general partner at global VC fund SOSV, explained at the Food Tech Congress in Warsaw last month.
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| 18.07.2023 | Q&A: GRIDX CEO on why Argentina is leading Latin America’s boom in biotech innovation | Argentina, Latin America’s southernmost country, is often characterized by ongoing economic crises and turmoil. But it is also fast becoming an innovation center for biotech: Second only to the US, Argentina is now the main provider of proj... |
| 01.03.2023 | FluoSphera secures $1 million pre-seed investment | |
| 01.03.2023 | FluoSphera secured a pre-seed investment of USD 1M and completed a world-class acceleration program | Gregory Segala, CEO and co-founder of FluoSphera SA: “We express our deep gratitude to our investors who believe in the potential of our powerful in vitro technology to provide the best solutions for drug discovery. This investment allows F... |
| 28.12.2022 | The best TechCrunch+ investor surveys of 2022 | In horse racing, the most reliable tips about which horse will likely win often come from the stable boys, since they’re the ones closest to the source.
So when we thought about the best ways to find out what’s happening in a particular sec... |
| 28.11.2022 | Houston company premieres new platform for gig economy workforce | As the independent workforce continues to grow, a Houston-based company is aiming to connect these workers with companies that match their specific needs with a new digital platform.
FlexTek, a 14-year old recruiting and staffing company, l... |
| 28.11.2022 | NASA launches new research projects toward astronauts on ISS | For the 26th time, SpaceX has sent up supplies to the International Space Station, facilitating several new research projects that will bring valuable information to the future of space.
On Saturday at 1:20 pm, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft ... |
| 23.11.2022 | Houston sustainable materials startup moves into new facility, plans to hire | After raising a seed round of funding, an alternative materials startup is gearing up to move into its new facility.
BUCHA BIO, a climatetech company that's creating sustainable materials to replace plastics and leather for the fashion indu... |
| 21.09.2022 | The 5 most interesting startups in this IndieBio cohort | IndieBio (part of SOSV) is a biotech investor and accelerator that has started shifting more and more toward climate tech in recent years. The current cohort is batch 13, for fall 2022, and we’ve taken a closer look at the five that stood o... |
| 01.09.2022 | BREAKING: Biologicals startup Puna Bio lands $3.7m to fight climate change with ‘extreme bacteria’ | Argentina’s Puna Bio has raised $3.7 million for its seed treatment that leverages the power of extremophiles — living microorganisms able to develop and survive in extreme conditions — to strengthen crops against the impacts of climate cha... |
| 11.08.2022 | Morocco’s UM6P Ventures invests in 2 gene editing and food waste reduction technologies | Morocco’s UM6P Ventures recently invested in two agrifoodtech startups tackling food waste and crop productivity.
Globally the climate change crisis is putting conventional agricultural systems and food security at risk. Owing to its locati... |
| 05.08.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Vertical farmer Spread raises $30m, McWin launches $500m restaurant fund | Kyoto-based Spread set a record for foodtech funding in Japan this week with a Series A raise for its vertical farming operation. Investment firm McWin has launched a fund for restaurants, while Source Global bagged a late-stage round for i... |
| 14.07.2022 | Sea & Believe: “After Six Months, We Achieved Our Goal: a Cod-Like Product That Flakes Like Real Fish” | IndieBio alt-seafood startup Sea & Believe recently developed what could be the first plant-based whole cod filet to flake just like real fish. With a focus on Irish seaweed and microalgae, the female-led team is researching and collabo... |
| 16.06.2022 | 3 climate tech VCs share how they find, vet and support carbon-slashing startups | Few sectors have boomed in the past few years like climate tech has. But despite the burgeoning urgency driving interest and investments, the ongoing market downturn is threatening to dim the prospects of many bright startups.
But are clima... |
| 14.06.2022 | A decade after the bubble burst, 5 climate tech investors explain why they’re all in | Climate tech has been one of the biggest successes of the last few years. By 2025, investors are expected to sink $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion annually into a wide range of startups that promise to upend everything from travel and commuting... |
| 08.06.2022 | 5 Brands Making Plant-Based Seafood So Realistic You Can’t Tell It’s Vegan | 3 Mins Read
Seafood is a fast-growing niche of the alternative protein sector. With that is a sub-niche of unbelievably realistic plant-based whole-cut products. Made using 100 percent vegan ingredients, these substitutes for fish and seafo... |
| 02.06.2022 | Joywell Foods nets $25M from Kraft Heinz VC and others for sweet protein commercialization | Dive Brief:
Sweet protein company Joywell Foods closed an oversubscribed $25 million Series B funding round led by Piva Capital. Kraft Heinz's venture arm Evolv Ventures also participated for its second investment in the company. Other inve... |
| 25.05.2022 | Female-Led Irish Startup Sea and Believe to Net $3M for Flaky Plant-Based Cod | Irish foodtech startup Sea and Believe has secured commitments for half of the $3 million sum it is planning to raise. Venture capital firm SOSV is among those who are set to provide funding.
The fundraise will take place following the star... |
| 03.05.2022 | Sea & Believe Develops Realistic Whole Cut Flaky Cod From Irish Seaweed | Sea & Believe, an IndieBio alt-seafood startup, has created what may be the first plant-based whole cod filet to flake like actual fish. Made from Irish seaweed and microalgae, the cod was recently featured during IndieBio’s Demo Day on... |
| 29.04.2022 | Next Age – Europe's first accelerator targeting the Silver Economy | Three funds have put their heads together to jointly launch Europe's first accelerator that focuses on the often neglected Silver Economy (products and services targeted at those over the age of 50), which is estimated to reach €5.7 trillio... |
| 20.04.2022 | How CBD biomanufacturing could make Europe change and win the cannabis game | By now, many have heard about Cannabidiol, better known as CBD, the non-psychoactive cannabinoid derived from the cannabis plant and discovered in 1940. You can find it in products ranging from edible gummy bears to skin oil, for purposes s... |
| 10.02.2022 | Cell-based chocolate maker California Cultured gets strategic investment from Cult Food Science | Dive Brief:
California Cultured, a cultured chocolate maker, received a strategic investment from Cult Food Science Corp., an investment platform focused on cell-based and cultured food. The amount and terms of the investment were not discl... |
| 04.01.2022 | Impossible Made Inevitable: How One Global VC Firm Helps Deep Tech Founders Go Further Faster | The SOSV team SOSV |
| 23.11.2021 | Sundial Foods Raises $4M for Whole Vegan Chicken Wings Made Entirely From Plants | 3 Mins Read
California-based Sundial Foods has raised $4 million in seed funding for its whole-cut vegan chicken wings slated to launch in the US in 2022. The round included participation from Nestlé, Food Labs, Clear Current Capital, and S... |
| 05.11.2021 | Bite Ninja raises $4m seed round. Here’s why AgFunder invested | Editor’s note: Manuel Gonzalez is a partner at AgFunder, which is AFN’s parent company. This article was first published in October 2021, a few months after AgFunder participated in Bite Ninja’s pre-seed round, which you can read more about... |
| 19.10.2021 | Why AgFunder invested in Bite Ninja | Disclosure: Manuel Gonzalez is a partner at AgFunder, which is AFN’s parent company. You can read more about AgFunder’s pre-seed investment in Bite Ninja here.
There are about 1 million restaurants and 200,000 drive-thrus in the US. During ... |
| 15.10.2021 | A road map for climate investors | Arvind Gupta Contributor
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Arvind co-leads Mayfield’s engineering biology practice and is founder and venture advisor at IndieBio. He was the first investor in breakout bio companies such as Geltor, Synthex, Prime Roots, NotC... |
| 01.10.2021 | Here’s all 10 companies from IndieBio’s latest New York cohort | Most big accelerators tend to dedicate some of their resources to dauntingly hard science problems and the companies taking them on… but for SOSV’s IndieBio, it’s the primary focus.
Last time we checked in with IndieBio, their companies wer... |
| 17.03.2021 | From improving cancer treatments to saving the bees, these are the companies in IndieBio’s latest class | Ultra-precise cancer therapies! Human-like hair grown from plants! A way to potentially save the bees!
The spectrum of companies coming out of IndieBio has always been pretty wild, and its latest batch definitely doesn’t disappoint.
As the ... |
| 17.12.2020 | The venture firm SOSV has hired former TechCrunch COO Ned Desmond to help grow its startups | Ned Desmond, a longtime publishing executive who spent more than half a dozen years at Time Inc. before becoming the chief operating officer of both TechCrunch and Engadget for more than eight years, has joined the investment firm SOSV as a... |
| 10.11.2020 | The digital shelf: CPG food startups in the era of online grocery | Editor’s note: Josh Hechtman is an analyst intern on AgFunder’s investment team. Atomo Coffee, Black Sheep Foods, Lavva, and SIMULATE appear in this article; all are portfolio companies of AgFunder, the parent company of AFN.
The digital sh... |
| 27.10.2020 | Next-gen skincare, silk without spiders and pollution for lunch: Meet the biotech startups pitching at IndieBio’s Demo Day | Biotech can often, and sometimes literally, fly over our heads. However, the pandemic has shown an increased need for investment and focus on solutions that work on human and planetary health. For IndieBio, a science and biotech accelerator... |
| 09.09.2020 | New Age Meats: “There’s a Reason We’re Called New Age Meats. The Definition of Meat is Changing.” | New Age Meats is a cultivated meat company working to develop delicious proteins free from animal slaughter, aiming to bring its first product, a pork sausage, to market soon. Based in San Francisco, the company’s tagline is “Meat without s... |
| 15.07.2020 | IndieBio’s Arvind Gupta Joins Mayfield, Will Lead New Alliance Using Capitalism And Biology To Do Good In The World | The Genesis Consortium will elevate their work to transform human and planetary health with engineering biology |
| 15.07.2020 | Leaving the $3.2 billion portfolio he helped build at IndieBio, Arvind Gupta joins Mayfield to create the Genesis Consortium | Arvind Gupta, the founder and head of IndieBio, is leaving the accelerator whose portfolio he helped build into a $3.2 billion life sciences powerhouse, to join the venture capital fund Mayfield.
The move is a signal both of Mayfield’s incr... |
| 15.05.2020 | Asia’s First: India Plant-Based Egg Startup Evo Foods Announces Angel Investment | 627 1
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India’s first and leading plant-based egg startup, Evo Foods, has recently welcomed veteran vegan founder Ryan Bethencourt as its first angel investor and advisor alongside US-Asia impact venture firm Big Idea V... |
| 22.02.2020 | This Plant-Based Bacon Is Just The Beginning, Alt-Meat Startup Says | What do you call a BLT when the bacon is plant-based? This sandwich includes alt-bacon from Prime ... [+] Roots. Prime Roots |
| 10.01.2020 | Cultured Meat Startup New Age Meats Secures $2.7M in Seed Round | Berkeley-based cultured meat company, New Age Meats, announced yesterday the closing of $2.7 million in seed round funding, led by New York’s ff Venture Capital,with participation from Agronomics Ltd, Sand Hill Angels, Supernode Ventures, H... |
| 09.01.2020 | Future Food: Why did AgFunder’s Yanniv Dorone & Quinten Eggink pick agri-foodtech? | In this episode, I speak to two members of AgFunder’s investment team who joined the company in 2019, Yanniv Dorone and Quinten Eggink. In another holiday special – shhh yes I know the holidays are over – they both share how they came to wo... |
| 23.09.2019 | New Culture Closes $3.5m Seed Funding for “Real Cow Cheese Without the Cow” | New Culture Mozzarella
New Culture is a startup based in San Francisco focused on creating making “real cow cheese without the cow” through a revolutionary use of the fermentation process to create casein, leading to a genuine dairy cheese ... |
| 23.09.2019 | New Culture Closes $3.5m Seed Funding for “Real Cow Cheese Without the Cow” | New Culture is a startup based in San Francisco focused on creating making “real cow cheese without the cow” through a revolutionary use of the fermentation process to create casein, leading to a genuine dairy cheese without the use of anim... |
| 11.09.2019 | Kraft Heinz venture fund invests in startup making real cheese… without cows | Other investors include Bee Partners, Mayfield, CPT Capital, Boost VC and SOSV, which followed on after its initial pre-seed investment through IndieBio.
New Culture will remain in the San Francisco Bay Area as it looks to set up an R&D... |
| 16.08.2019 | Protein replacement startups are coming for food additives as Shiru launches from Y Combinator | Shiru, a new company that’s launching from the latest batch of Y Combinator-backed startups, is joining the ranks of the businesses angling for a spot at the vanguard of the new food technology revolution.
The company was founded by Jasmin ... |
| 24.06.2019 | ‘Real’ cheese… without cows? New Culture makes mozzarella with milk proteins via microbial fermentation | While the latest generation of plant-based meats are getting closer and closer to the real thing, plant-based cheeses don’t generally deliver the same taste, texture, functionality or nutrition as dairy cheese because they don’t contain cas... |
| 01.05.2019 | New Culture: “We Have a Waiting List for People to be First in Line to Try Our Cheese” | The team behind New Culture has taken a revolutionary approach to the manufacturing of dairy cheese. For a more sustainable and ethical approach, the New Zealand company is “making real cow cheese without the cow.” This is vegan friendly ch... |
| 25.04.2019 | The venture firm SOSV has already raised its biggest fund to date, and it isn’t quite closed | SOSV, a multi-stage venture firm that was founded as the personal investing vehicle of entrepreneur Sean O’Sullivan after his company went public in 1994, then re-launched as a traditional venture firm with outside backers in 2015, has rais... |
| 13.02.2019 | 60 AgriFood Tech Startups Nominated for 2019 AgFunder Innovation Awards – Vote Now! | *VOTING EXTENDED UNTIL MARCH 1, 9AM ET!*
We’re very excited to open our Third Annual AgFunder AgriFood Tech Innovation Awards, where we recognize the innovators and entrepreneurs driving the agrifood tech sector forward.
Our nomination comm... |
| 16.11.2018 | Акселераторы на любой стартап: список лучших программ в России и США | Любой стартап мечтает пройти акселерационную программу, но не каждый акселератор рад видеть всех желающих. Поэтому стартапы, как правило, проходят тщательный конкурс, прежде чем получают предложение участвовать в программе.
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| 06.11.2018 | Watch biotech startups pitch at IndieBio’s demo day today | IndieBio, the biotech startup accelerator that’s produced heaps of notable companies (including several that have graced the Startup Battlefield), is holding its twice-annual demo day today at 3PM Pacific Time. An even dozen young companies... |
| 29.08.2018 | Как попасть в самый большой международный научный акселератор IndieBio и привлечь $650K иностранных инвестиций | Почему международные инвесторы “без ума” от препарата Mezomax и что нужно делать, чтобы повторить успех первого и единственного российского стартапа, прошедшего лучший мировой акселератор Indiebio.
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| 14.08.2018 | New Age Meats: People are being fooled into thinking clean meat is just around the corner | “There are a few companies announcing ambitious timelines and making promises that are very aggressive and they could fool people into thinking clean meat is just around the corner,” claims Spears, a chemical engineer with a background in... |
| 17.04.2018 | Watch IndieBio’s Demo Day today | Today, April 17th at 2:00 PT, TechCrunch is bringing you IndieBio‘s Demo Day.
IndieBio is a four-month accelerator focusing on biotech companies. Early-stage companies are given mentorship, 24/7 access to biosafety level 1 and 2 labs on-sit... |
| 07.02.2018 | DEADLINE APPROACHING: Cast Your Vote in the AgFunder Innovation Awards | ***VOTING CLOSED***
It’s that time of year again to recognize the innovators and entrepreneurs driving the agrifood tech sector forward with the AgFunder Innovation Awards. These are peer-selected awards based on votes placed by you, our 45... |
| 09.10.2017 | Sugarlogix is Manufacturing the Best Components of Human Breast Milk from Sugar | Sugarlogix is a biotech startup based in Berkeley, CA attempting to distill some of the most prized nutritional qualities of human breast milk from simple table sugar. The company is looking to improve infant formula with a particular milk ... |
| 09.10.2017 | SOSV: “The future of food will be sustainable, personalized, and cellular” | SOSV is a prolific early-stage investor in agrifood tech with a unique model for supporting this growing sector. The firm topped our mid-year investor leaderboard once again for H1-2017, although it invested in less than half the number of ... |
| 14.09.2017 | Accelerators targeting biotech companies | They include Illumina Accelerator, Indie Bio and Central New York Biotech Accelerator
For startups, there are numerous paths for getting their name out there. One way, which Vator has been covering recently, are startup competitions, but an... |
| 14.09.2017 | Tune in to IndieBio Accelerator’s Demo Day today | TechCrunch is excited to bring you IndieBio Accelerator‘s Demo Day today, September 14th at 3:00pm PT.
Targeting the biotech industry, the IndieBio Accelerator hosts a four-month program. IndieBio provides startups with 24/7 access to biosa... |
| 14.06.2017 | MassChallenge’s digital health program gets funding renewed | Although Baker comes from a health administration background as a former CEO of Harvard Pilgrim, his presence at the event marking the end of the six-month program is not the kind of recognition most healthcare accelerators are able to must... |
| 07.06.2017 | Are We Nearing the End of Preventative Antibiotics in Livestock? | Consumers are getting impatient with restaurants and retailers for dragging their feet on ridding their meat of antibiotics used in humans. In the past four years, a steady stream of well-known restaurant and grocery chains have pledged to ... |
| 06.06.2017 | 30 Best Startup Accelerators in the US Ranked | There's no shame in getting a little bit of help, particularly when it comes to running a business. Sure, you can bootstrap a one-man company with no advice from seasoned entrepreneurs and a notable lack of experience yourself, but you know... |
| 19.01.2017 | AgFunder Innovation Awards 2016 Winners Announced | Today we are excited to release the winners of the inaugural AgFunder Innovation Awards.
Startup activity in food and agriculture technology is growing dramatically; at AgFunder we’ve come across over 5k companies since 2014. At the same ti... |
| 03.01.2017 | SOSV, “the accelerator VC,” closes third fund at $150 million | Since the advent of accelerators, venture capitalists have competed to lock in deals with the best startups in a given batch. Entrepreneur turned investor Sean O’ Sullivan thought it would be better to develop a venture firm that owned and ... |
| 06.10.2016 | This Startup Is Making Dairy Milk Without Cows | Meeting a stranger at a bar in Ireland can go a number of different ways. In the case of Ryan Pandya and Perumal Gandhi, coming together in Cork over a pint would lead to the creation of the world's first dairy milk made without cows.
Isha ... |
| 06.10.2016 | A Guide to the Investors Funding the Next Agricultural Revolution | As the next agricultural revolution unfolds, an increasing number of investors are stepping up to fund it. As recently as six years ago, only three investment funds were dedicated to investing in agriculture technology innovation. Today, th... |
| 12.09.2016 | Cultured coffee… the beginning of a new fermented foods revolution? | This is the vision of Brooklyn-based start-up Afineur, which has combined its co-founders’ expertise in flavor chemistry and microbiology to create the first ‘cultured’ coffee (in which bitter notes have been eliminated by microbes during... |
| 25.08.2016 | A Complete Guide to Startup Resources in Agriculture and Food Technology Innovation | Editor’s Note: Today, AgFunder, AgThentic, and Ag Innovation Development (AgIDG) Group release a new report entitled: A Guide to Startup Resources in Agriculture and Food Technology. The report details the 77 startup resources available to ... |
| 24.08.2016 | How Sustainable Is Agritech Investment? | Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on Forbes.com, entitled How Sustainable Is The Agritech Venture Ecosystem?
There’s no doubt that agriculture technology, as a sector of innovation, is having a moment. Agritech investment has surge... |
| 21.07.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Argentina’s S4 Closes $1.2m Seed Round, New Wave Foods Raises Funding for Shrimp Alternative, Indigo’s $100m, more | Microbiome-focused Indigo Closes $100m Series C for Cotton Seed Coating
Indigo has raised a $100 million Series C round as it launches its first commercial product, a seed coating promoting water efficiency in cotton. The round was led by t... |
| 05.07.2015 | A Look Inside Silicon Valley’s Wild Biotech Accelerator IndieBio | Silicon Valley breeds the kind of people that create computers that fit in the palm of our hands, electric cars that can go hundreds of miles on a single charge and plans to launch tiny satellites across the globe to bring everyone in the w... |
| - | Prellis Biologics Is on a Mission to Print Human Organs | When we have the opportunity to invest in a company that can truly improve and saves lives, it gives venture an added dimension of impact. The lack of human organs for those in need of transplants is one of those incredibly difficult proble... |
| - | Next Age – Europe's first accelerator targeting the Silver Economy | Three funds have put their heads together to jointly launch Europe's first accelerator that focuses on the often neglected Silver Economy (products and services targeted at those over the age of 50), which is estimated to reach €5.7 trillio... |
| - | Founder-Focused Investing in Human Health and Biology | Recently, there have been a number of thoughtful blog posts on different models for funding emerging opportunities in human health and biology.
Biotech Researchers Venture Into the Wild to Start Their Own Businesses by Jorge Conde
The $10... |
| - | How CBD biomanufacturing could make Europe change and win the cannabis game | By now, many have heard about Cannabidiol, better known as CBD, the non-psychoactive cannabinoid derived from the cannabis plant and discovered in 1940. You can find it in products ranging from edible gummy bears to skin oil, for purposes s... |
| - | MassChallenge’s digital health program gets funding renewed | Boston skyline along the Harborwalk
MassChallenge marked the end of its first digital health cohort PULSE@MassChallenge with assurances from Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker that the Commonwealth would back a second class of digital health ... |
