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| 05.09.2025 | Eat Just Brings Revolutionary Just Meat to Texas with H-E-B | Product celebrated at iconic Franklin Barbecue in Austin, now rolling out statewide with H-E-B
ALAMEDA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Eat Just, Inc., the brand applying cutting-edge science and technology to create healthier, more sustainable food... |
| 04.06.2025 | Wildtype’s Cultivated Salmon Becomes First in Seafood Category to Receive FDA Approval in the US | San Francisco-based company Wildtype has launched its cultivated salmon in US restaurants, marking a significant milestone in the cultivated seafood sector. Beginning this month, the product is being featured at Kann, a Portland, Oregon res... |
| 01.05.2025 | Eat Just Launches One-Ingredient Mung Bean Protein Powder at Whole Foods | Eat Just, Inc., the company behind the plant-based Just Egg, has launched its new protein powder, Just One, which is now available at Whole Foods Market locations across the United States. This product is distinct for being made with just o... |
| 26.02.2025 | Singapore alternative meat startups target resurgence after sector setbacks | CONVERGE LIVE - Singapore, March 12-13 2025 - Request invitation
Singapore, which imports most of its produce due to land scarcity, went big on the meat alternatives sector with generous funding for research and commercialization as it look... |
| 21.02.2025 | Just Egg Becomes America’s Most Reliable Egg | ALAMEDA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–As the Great American Egg Crisis leaves grocery store shelves empty and restaurants struggling to source eggs, Just Egg, the award-winning and category defining plant-based egg, is stepping in to fill the gap... |
| 13.12.2024 | The Future of Food: Innovations in Cultivated Meat and Plant-Based Alternatives | The culinary landscape is shifting. Innovations in food technology are reshaping how we think about meat. Two recent developments highlight this transformation: Callan MacDonald’s AgriCell project and CULT Food Science’s acquisition of The ... |
| 11.12.2024 | CULT Food Science Targets Mycelium and Hybrid Alternatives with Acquisition of The Better Butchers | CULT Food Science Corp. (CSE: CULT, OTC: CULTF, FRA: LN00), a Canadian company focused on advancing cellular agriculture and lab-grown meat technologies, has executed a binding Letter of Intent (LOI) to acquire The Better Butchers Inc. (TBB... |
| 08.10.2024 | The UK’s Bold Leap into Cultivated Meat: A Regulatory Revolution | The UK government is stepping into the future of food with a £1.6 million investment aimed at revolutionizing the cultivated meat industry. This move is not just a financial commitment; it’s a declaration of intent. The establishment of a r... |
| 08.10.2024 | Nuggs Maker Simulate Bought By Ahimsa Companies After Period of Uncertainty for the ‘Tesla of Chicken’ | 5 Mins Read Vegan chicken startup Simulate, famous for its Nuggs, has been acquired by Ahimsa Companies to get the business back on track after months of (dis)quiet.
Simulate, the plant-based meat brand known for its meme-famous Nuggs, has ... |
| 04.09.2024 | Plant-based cheesemaker Climax Foods secures bridge funding, plans restructuring | Plant-based cheesemaker Climax Foods has secured bridge funding it claims will fund operations through the year-end after a challenging period in which it has furloughed staff to conserve cash.
Climax furloughed roughly half of its employee... |
| 03.09.2024 | Illinois Representative Joins Growing List of Politicians Trying to Ban Cultivated Meat | 5 Mins Read The culture wars over cultivated meat continue, with a House Representative in Illinois introducing a bill to ban these foods in the state.
And it goes on.
Two months after Florida’s ban on cultivated meat came into effect, and ... |
| 30.08.2024 | Nebraska Governor Signs Executive Order Against Cultivated Meat, Eyes Ban for 2025 | 7 Mins Read Nebraska governor Jim Pillen has signed an executive order with a view to ban cultivated meat in 2025 – and he did not mince his words about consumers’ freedom of choice, or Bill Gates.
Despite Ron DeSantis’ Florida being sued f... |
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| 23.08.2024 | The Quantum Leap: UK Startups on the Brink of a Funding Crisis | The UK is at a crossroads. Quantum computing, a field once buoyed by government support, now faces uncertainty. A leading startup, Phasecraft, has sounded the alarm. The recent decision by the Labour government to shelve £1.3 billion in tec... |
| 23.08.2024 | Mission Barns Upends the Production Status Quo with Novel, Scalable Bioreactors for Cultivated Pork Fat | 5 Mins Read California’s Mission Barns has developed a novel bioreactor that is easy to scale and can lower the cost of cultivated meat, with regulatory approval imminent ahead of its planned market launch.
Moving away from the conventional... |
| 22.08.2024 | European cultivated meat startups in "valley of death", amid funding challenges | European foodtech startups trying to revolutionise the food sector through lab-grown meat are stuck in a “valley of death”, according to a non-profit that promotes cell-based alternatives to traditional animal products.
The hype around lab-... |
| 22.08.2024 | Mission Barns Revamps Single-Cell Suspension Pharma Bioreactors to Scale Cultivated Meat Production | Cultivated fat startup Mission Barns has engineered a new bioreactor to optimize cultivated meat production, aiming to replace the single-cell suspension bioreactors traditionally used in the pharmaceutical industry.
“We’ve invented a novel... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Rise of Cultivated Meat: A Culinary Revolution or a Political Battlefield?** ** | ** In the heart of Europe, a culinary revolution is simmering. Cultivated meat, a product of modern science, is making waves. But this innovation is not just about taste; it’s a battleground of politics, consumer choice, and tradition.
Rece... |
| 25.07.2024 | Dutch Startup Mosa Meat Hosts First Cultivated Beef Tasting in the EU | 6 Mins Read Dutch food tech startup Mosa Meat conducted the first public tasting of cultivated beef in the EU, another milestone for novel foods amid fierce debate in Europe.
Mosa Meat, the Dutch startup that produced the world’s first cult... |
| 04.06.2024 | Eat Just Reformulates Vegan Just Egg with ‘Biggest’ Improvement in Taste & Texture Since Launch | 5 Mins Read Californian alternative protein leader Eat Just has debuted the fifth iteration of its vegan Just Egg, made from mung beans, which further closes the gap in taste and functionality with conventional eggs.
It’s five years, five v... |
| 15.03.2024 | Most People Who Have Tried Cultivated Meat Say They’d Eat It Again, But Taste & Price Parity Remain Key | 8 Mins Read In a first-of-its-kind in-market study of cultivated meat, a majority of consumers who have tasted Eat Just’s Good Meat chicken say they’d do it again. However, delivering on flavour and bringing down costs are the most importan... |
| 14.03.2024 | Global Agrifood Tech Funding Down by 50% As Deals Become Smaller and Fewer | 6 Mins Read The global agrifood tech financial landscape remains difficult, with funding in the sector down by 49.2% from 2022-23, reaching $15.6B – the lowest it has been in six years – according to a new report by AgFunder.
A lot has been... |
| 12.03.2024 | Singaporean Cultivated Seafood Startups Umami Bioworks and Shiok Meats Announce Merger | 6 Mins Read In a major shift in the cultivated seafood space, Singaporean startups Umami Bioworks and Shiok Meats have announced plans to merge. Once finalised, Umami Bioworks CEO Mihir Pershad will lead the combined entity, and Shiok Meats... |
| 06.03.2024 | Eat Just CEO: Large-scale cultivated meat production requires a new operating model | [Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include comments from Eat Just CEO Josh Tetrick]
Eat Just is working on new CRISPR-enabled cell lines for cultivated meat it claims will increase efficiencies as it refines its models for pro... |
| 04.03.2024 | Eat Just Pauses Singapore Operations – But Plans to Resume Production & Foodservice Presence ‘Very Soon’ | 6 Mins Read Californian cultivated meat producer Eat Just has paused its Singapore operations, three months after Huber’s Bistro stopped selling its Good Meat chicken. But the company says this is a temporary phase, with production and serv... |
| 04.03.2024 | Eat Just shows cracks as it reportedly halts SG operations | Consumer TechNewsStartups
Samreen Ahmad · 4 Mar 2024 · 2 min readEat Just shows cracks as it reportedly halts SG operations
Photo credit: Eat Just
US-based Eat Just, the company behind plant-based egg substitute Just Egg and cultivated meat... |
| 11.12.2018 | JUST strikes deal in Japan to bring cell-cultured Wagyu beef to market | Under the deal, JUST will develop cultured Wagyu beef from Toriyama cell lines, and Awano (Toriyama's export agent with clients around the globe) will market and sell the meat.
While Wagyu beef is known for its high levels of intra-muscular... |
| 01.08.2018 | Clean meat: How do US consumers feel about cell cultured meat? | While early research on consumers’ reactions to clean meat has been mixed, it has generally focused on understanding ‘baseline’ attitudes — “asking people who know little about it whether they’d be willing to eat it,” said Faunalytics - ... |
| 15.06.2018 | FDA announces public meeting on cultured meat, says it can be regulated under existing frameworks | The announcement also made it clear that regulating cultured meat – which involves producing meat from growing animal cells outside an animal – falls squarely within the FDA's remit, despite calls for USDA to create new regulations governi... |
| 18.05.2018 | Ill considered’ cattlemen’s petition ‘would cause chaos’ in the marketplace,’ claims North American Meat Institute | While cattle farmers are concerned about how cultured meat – which is produced from animal cells but does not involve raising or slaughtering animals - might impact the meat industry as we know it, leading meat processors see it as an oppor... |
| 17.05.2018 | Clean meat: ‘Traditional animal agriculture has reached capacity,’ says Future Meat Technologies | Speaking to FoodNavigator-USA after raising $2.2m in a seed funding round co-led by Tyson Ventures - the venture arm of meat giant Tyson Foods – FMT founder Professor Yaakov Nahmias said: “We can get the price down probably in about 6-8 m... |
| 02.05.2018 | Approving cattlemen’s petition would have a “chilling” effect on food innovation, says Memphis Meats | While no cultured meat products are on the market yet, a handful of players from Mosameat in the Netherlands, Future Meat Technologies and SuperMeat in Israel, Memphis Meats, Finless Foods and Just Inc in the US, and Integricultu... |
| 04.04.2018 | UPDATE: Impossible Foods Adds $114m in New Financing, Bringing Total to Nearly $400m | *First Published August 1, 2017. Updated April 4, 2018 to reflect new financing.”
Plant-based burger maker Impossible Foods has added a $114 million convertible note to its ample coffers. The additional financing comes from existing investo... |
| 29.01.2018 | Tyson spreads its protein bets with minority stake in cultured meat start-up Memphis Meats | In a statement announcing the investment (of an undisclosed sum) in Memphis Meats, Tyson Foods’ EVP corporate strategy Justin Whitmore said the move would “broaden our exposure to innovative, new ways of producing meat, especially since glo... |
| 16.01.2018 | Mosa Meat CEO on clean meat, competition and disrupting a $1 trillion market | Four years ago, Mosa Meat's chief scientific officer Mark Post showcased the world's the very first clean meat burger. Made of muscle fibre produced without killing an animal, it had the texture of meat, but not the flavour or colour.
Since... |
| 11.01.2018 | Green Queen’s 2018 Eco Wellness Predictions | 13 0
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| 02.01.2018 | Lab-made meat startup SuperMeat raises $3M seed to develop ‘clean’ chicken | SuperMeat, an Israeli biotech and food-tech startup that is developing lab-made chicken meat, has raised $3 million in seed funding, as it becomes the latest of a crop of so-called ‘clean meat’ companies to get off the ground. Others in the... |
| 21.12.2017 | Cultured fish co Finless Foods aims to achieve price parity with Bluefin tuna by the end of 2019 | Co-founder and CEO Mike Selden told FoodNavigator-USA: “Initially, quantities will be limited, and we’ll be working with chefs in high-end restaurants doing some really interesting things just to spark a conversation, and get the public to... |
| 08.12.2017 | Clean meat is greener, claims Hampton Creek: ‘Animal agriculture is a relatively inefficient way to create the foods that we want’ | Speaking to FoodNavigator-USA at FOOD VISION USA in Chicago, director of cellular agriculture Eitan Fischer said growing interest in clean meat (made by culturing cells without raising or slaughtering animals) and plant-based meat, egg an... |
| 30.11.2017 | UPDATE: Arzeda Closes Series A on $15.2m for Plant-Based Computational Protein Production, Led by OS Fund | *First published July 27, 2017. Updated November 30 to reflect final close on $15.2 million
Seattle-based Arzeda has raised a $15.2 million Series A round to expand the capacity of its synthetic protein and enzyme development operation. The... |
| 05.10.2017 | Innovative Food: Startups Raise $206m to Meet Consumer Demand for Protein & Novel Ingredients | Consumer demands are changing at a faster pace than ever as our understanding of nutrition evolves.
Protein-rich foods are in particular demand, and with the meat industry responsible for more than 15% of greenhouse gas emissions, innovator... |
| 20.09.2017 | Can you make meat without an animal? Hampton Creek is betting its future on it | Josh Tetrick has gone up against Big Mayo, the egg industry, Target and his own staff and board of directors.
Now, the 37-year-old entrepreneur behind Hampton Creek is vowing to beat a handful of food-tech start-ups to market a meat made wi... |
| 02.08.2017 | Jaden Smith’s company sues over a trademark dispute | TOMMASO BODDI / WIREIMAGE VIA BLOOMBERG
Jaden Smith holds up a Just Water product, which he said is better for the environment because the bottle is made from paper and sugarcane.
A bottled water startup co-founded by teen heartthrob Jaden ... |
| 03.07.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: California Puts Roundup on Cancer List, Hampton Creek to be Selling Cultured Meat Next Year? More | California Puts Monsanto’s Glyphosate/Roundup on Cancer List
Monsanto’s herbicide Glyphosate, sold under the retail name Roundup, is officially part of California’s Prop 65 list of chemicals with carcinogenic properties despite Monsanto’s v... |
| 27.06.2017 | Is Food Tech Headed for a Cleantech Correction? | A cautionary tale is quietly making its way around food tech investor communities and conferences. The tale is the story of cleantech.
In the early aughts, just after the debut of the Prius in 1997, dot-com investors turned their lonely eye... |
| 16.06.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Amazon Buys Whole Foods, Monsanto & Atomwise Partner to Use AI for Discovery, MidWest Accelerators Announce Investments, more | Amazon is Buying Whole Foods for $13.4bn
Amazon has agreed to buy the upscale grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.4 billion, as the online retailer looks to conquer new territory in the supermarket aisle and bolster its own food delivery serv... |
| 09.06.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Agrilyst Indoor Farming Survey Open, Climate Ventures 2.0 Cohort, Coca Cola Investing $1.7bn in India Ag, more | Agrilyst Releases State of Indoor Farming Survey
In an attempt to gain a better insight about the current state of indoor farming, Agrilyst, which has developed an indoor farming software management platform, has teamed up with Cornell Univ... |
| 21.05.2017 | Designers weigh in on Hampton Creek’s new look: ‘It's anti-branding, it's simply food’ | The new packaging – created by Sean Wolcott - was informed in part by founder Josh Tetrick’s encounter with a shopper at a Dollar Tree store who confidently informed him that his flagship egg-free spread Just Mayo (with its brown paper la... |
