Making Better Insects.
Specifically, we are insect breeders. We create high performance insect gene
Specifically, we are insect breeders. We create high performance insect gene
Location: United Kingdom, Scotland, Roslin
Employees: 1-10
Total raised: $2.1M
Founded date: 2017
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| 13.11.2023 | Climate VC | climate.vc |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 17.10.2023 | - | $2.1M | - |
Mentions in press and media 11
| Date | Title | Description |
| 22.06.2024 | The AgriFoodTech Revolution: Capital Raises, Acquisitions, and Partnerships Driving Innovation in the Industry | The dynamic world of AgriFoodTech is experiencing a surge of activity this week, with a plethora of significant developments making waves across the sector. Notably, companies in the alternative meat space, such as THIS, Tender, and Ever Af... |
| 20.06.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: THIS bags $25m & Tender scoops up $11m for meat alternatives, Farmbot scores $4.6m | Alt-meat got a few boosts this week, namely in form of capital raises for the UK’s THIS, US-based Tender, and Israeli cultivated meat company Ever After Foods. In farmtech, Australia’s Farmbot raised new funds along with insect-breeding pla... |
| 19.10.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Japan’s DAIZ lands $47m, Zordi emerges from stealth in US, FBN & ADM team up | Agtech’s big news this week was the emergence of US-based Zordi, which came out of stealth with its autonomous greenhouse tech. Over in foodtech, funding went to DAIZ for Japan’s ‘largest’ plant-based meat factory and a couple new developme... |
| 17.10.2023 | Edinburgh-based Beta Bugs raises €1.46M to scale up sustainable insect farming for animal feed production | Read this article in: Scottish insect genetics company Beta Bugs announced that it has raised €1.46M to scale up the production, sale, and supply of its black soldier fly (BSF) eggs and larvae. The insect farming sector will use them as a s... |
| 17.10.2023 | Beta Bugs Raises £1.72M in Funding | Beta Bugs, an Edinburgh, UK-based insect genetics company, raised £1.72M in funding. The round was led by The Tricapital Syndicate, with participation from SIS Ventures, Scottish Enterprise, Beeches Group, Climate.vc and existing shareholde... |
| 20.04.2021 | Phenix, a startup making better live-streaming tech, raises $16M | - |
| 07.10.2020 | UK government earmarks $13m for industrial insect farm | In the same week that French insect farming startup Ÿnsect netted its massive $372 million Series C, the UK government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) has earmarked a more modest £10 million ($12.9 million) to help build the cou... |
| 29.07.2020 | Backyard black soldier flies: Grubbly grabs up $2.9m seed round led by Overline | “People are losing their clucking minds over backyard chickens,” reads a recent headline in The Hustle about how the coronavirus pandemic is fueling a resurgence of the US amateur poultry farmer. Will this new chicken run spur a similar cra... |
| 22.07.2020 | Protenga nets $1.6m from UK, Singapore investors for novel approach to Black Soldier Fly farming | UK agritech venture builder Roslin Technologies and Enterprise Singapore’s SEEDS Capital, an investment vehicle linked with the city-state’s government, have pumped $1.6 million into insect farming startup Protenga. Roslin Technologies is a... |
| 02.07.2020 | Distributed mini-farms and carbon-neutral eggs: The next phase of Black Soldier Fly farming | Last summer at a research lab on the outskirts of Cambridge, UK, I nervously rolled up my sleeve and tucked my hand deep into a tray of pulsing, writhing maggots. (Yes, keeping in touch with the future of farming is a mandate the AFN newsro... |
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