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| Aug 11, 2025 | Geltor Closes Equity Financing Round for Animal-Free Beauty Ingredients, Bringing Total Amount Raised to $137M | Geltor, a biodesign company developing sustainable, animal-free proteins for the beauty and wellness industries, has completed a new equity financing round that brings the total amount it has raised to $137 million.
The round was co-led by ... |
| Aug 11, 2024 | The Rise of Alternative Proteins: A New Era in Biomanufacturing | The world is changing. Traditional food systems are under pressure. Climate change, population growth, and health concerns are pushing us to rethink what we eat. Enter alternative proteins. They are not just a trend; they are a revolution. ... |
| Aug 8, 2024 | Nutrition from Water Develops Microalgae-Based Whey, Prepares for Market Introduction | New Zealand-based biotechnology startup Nutrition from Water (NXW), previously known as NewFish, has developed a microalgae-based whey for sports, wellness, advanced nutrition, and other categories such as baking and dairy-free confectioner... |
| May 2, 2024 | 10 startups achieving market success, and shaping our future food system (Sponsored) | |
| Oct 25, 2023 | ADM ‘re-scopes’ Decatur plant protein investment amid weak market demand for alt meat | Ingredients giant ADM has “re-scoped” its protein modernization investment project in Decatur, Illinois, amid sluggish demand for meat alternatives.
Speaking on the firm’s third-quarter earnings call on Monday, chairman and CEO Juan Luciano... |
| Sep 28, 2022 | We Solved Y2K, We’ll Solve #FoodIsHealth, Innovation is Better | When faced with the challenge of Y2K, the computer industry realized innovation is better. The turn of the millennium in 2000 was supposed to be an exciting event. Instead, for the IT and internet communities, it was a looming disaster. Tha... |
| May 26, 2022 | Synthesis Capital Unveils Largest Ever FoodTech VC Fund: $300M For the Food System Unicorns of Tomorrow | Synthesis Capital, a global food technology and alternative protein investor with operations in the UK, US, and Guernsey, today announces Synthesis Capital Fund I (“Fund”) which it says represents the largest fund ever raised for the sector... |
| Apr 20, 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... |
| Feb 24, 2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: GrowUp Farms gets $135m, PlantLab pulls in $57m & Novameat nabs $6m | The UK will soon get a new, large-scale controlled environment agriculture (CEA) facility thanks to a recent nine-figure investment in GrowUp Farms.
In the realm of alternative proteins, Spain’s Novameat netted several million dollars for i... |
| Feb 23, 2022 | Geltor Completes First Large Production Run of PrimaColl Animal-Free Collagen | Biodesign company Geltor announces the successful completion of the company’s first major commercial run for PrimaColl, a groundbreaking vegan collagen. In partnership with Arxada, Geltor says the 5-month operation concluded in Fall 2021, d... |
| Feb 22, 2022 | ‘No longer a pipedream…’ Geltor completes commercial-scale manufacturing run of PrimaColl ‘animal-free’ vegan collagen for food and nutrition market | “The commercial availability of PrimaColl [produced in partnership with Arxada, formerly Lonza] signals that it’s no longer a pipe dream, but a reality, that consumers can expect to see bio-designed ingredients on shelves in their favorit... |
| Feb 16, 2022 | Rubi Laboratories raises $4.5m in seed funding to supply major fashion brands with carbon-negative textiles | "We're at a pivotal moment in time where mature modern technologies and advances in biotech can meet to build a world where human prosperity and economic growth are planet-positive."
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| Nov 24, 2021 | Geltor Announces New Vegan Collagen Brand With Crushed Tonic Founder Sally Olivia Kim | Geltor announces a partnership with beauty and wellness entrepreneur and author Sally Olivia Kim for the launch of a line of vegan DTC biodesigned CPG products, as the demand for vegan beauty products continues to rise globally.
The partner... |
| Aug 30, 2021 | Orora Launches Skincare Products Made With “North America’s First Human-Identical Vegan Collagen” | Orora Skin Science, Inc., a new Canadian beauty brand, has launched two products made with what it claims is the first vegan bioidentical human collagen ingredient in North America.
Made by leading biodesign company Geltor, the ingredient i... |
| Jul 15, 2021 | “First-of-its-Kind” Vegan Collagen Hits Market from US Biodesign Company Geltor | US biodesign company Geltor, Inc. has announced a “first-of-its-kind” animal-free collagen for the food and beverage industries. The company claims its biodesigned ingredient product PrimaColl sets a new bar for collagens in terms of functi... |
| Jul 13, 2021 | Geltor Introduces PrimaColl™, a Next-Generation High-Purity Bioactive Collagen Made With Zero Animal Inputs For Use in Food and Beverage | |
| Jul 13, 2021 | Collagen supplements can help keep skin youthful and glowing, according to a dermatologist | Daily collagen supplementation could improve your skin. Getty
Global sales of collagen supplements are projected to reach $7.5 billion by 2027.
Brands claim taking the protein can keep skin youthful, among other benefits.
Dermatologist Mela... |
| Jun 8, 2021 | Geltor targets 'beauty-from-within' market with 'extremely rare' Type 21 vegan collagen (made with microbes, not animals) | Distinct from the plant-based collagen ‘builder’ or ‘booster’ formulations, PrimaColl is an exact match to the bioactive amino acid core of the less abundant Type 21 collagen, said Geltor, which has teamed up with Lonza Specialty Ingredie... |
| Jun 8, 2021 | Brief: Geltor debuts ‘world’s first’ vegan collagen for food & beverage industry | US “designer protein” startup Geltor has debuted what it describes as the world’s first real vegan collagen for the food and beverage industry.
Bay Area-based Geltor claims that the product, PrimaColl, is different from plant-based ‘collage... |
| Feb 25, 2021 | Agtech CVC: ADM Ventures on the many ways corporations can invest in innovators | This interview is part of a series on agrifoodtech corporate VC investment strategies and insights. The series is produced in collaboration with the OnRamp Agriculture Conference, which brings together the agriculture and food industries’ l... |
| Feb 5, 2021 | Animal-Free Collagen Maker Geltor Announces Senior Hires For Mid-2021 Launch In Food & Cosmetic Industries | 1
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Biodesign startup Geltor has announced three new senior executive hires to its leadership team, as the firm gears up to launch its animal-free collagen in mid-2021. The company says that its expanded team will help dri... |
| Feb 2, 2021 | World first: Geltor gears up for mid-2021 launch of vegan collagen for food, beverage, nutrition markets | Like Perfect Day – which makes ‘animal-free’ dairy proteins – Geltor deploys synthetic biology to engineer microbes to produce collagen (which is currently extracted from animal skin, bones, and connective tissue) via a fermentation proce... |
| Jan 21, 2021 | Forsaking funding at a $1 billion valuation, Solugen preps a new green chemical product and a big 2021 | Late last year, Solugen, a startup using synthetic biology to take hydrocarbons out of the chemicals industry, decided against pursuing a new round of funding that would have valued the company at over $1 billion, TechCrunch has learned.
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| Nov 17, 2020 | Biotechnology Pioneer Dr. Doug Cameron Joins Geltor Following $91.3M Raise | Biodesign company Geltor, Inc. announces the addition to its Board of Directors a Dr. Douglas Cameron, Previously Director of Biotechnology and Chief Scientist at Cargill. Despite the Cargill connection, the company states that Dr Cameron h... |
| Nov 17, 2020 | Biotechnology Pioneer Dr. Doug Cameron Joins Geltor Following $91.3M Raise | ©Geltor
Biodesign company Geltor, Inc. announces the addition to its Board of Directors a Dr. Douglas Cameron, Previously Director of Biotechnology and Chief Scientist at Cargill. Despite the Cargill connection, the company states that Dr C... |
| Nov 13, 2020 | Just Launched Jellatech To Create Sustainable, Animal-Free Collagen & Gelatin | 7 2
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Launched this month, Jellatech is a new biotech startup specialising in creating animal-free and slaughter-free collagen and gelatin by growing cells in a bioreactor. The company says that its ingredients will be pu... |
| Nov 4, 2020 | Pushing for US & Middle East to eat organic, Saudi prince joins Back To The Roots round | KBW Ventures, the early-stage investment firm run by Saudi Arabian prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud, has joined an investment round into Oakland, California’s organic gardening company Back to the Roots.
The round, of undisclose... |
| Oct 29, 2020 | iSelect Invests for Impact and Performance: 3 Case Studies | At iSelect, we invest for impact AND performance. We are a research-driven organization dedicated to deep diligence and careful execution.
We invest in companies that are addressing critical global issues, in large markets, and with a proje... |
| Oct 14, 2020 | Where are the world’s first ‘lab burger’ growers now? Enlarging their Series B raise | These days, it feels like most days are a ‘World Something Day.’ If there’ll ever be an ‘International Cultured Meat Day,’ an apt date to mark it is August 5.
On that day in 2013, Dutch foodtech company Mosa Meat brandished the world’s firs... |
| Aug 28, 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... |
| Aug 18, 2020 | Investing with Impact Without Sacrificing Performance | Impact investing has grown up.
Originally associated with environmental and sustainability causes, the concept is now expanding to include diversity issues, social impact, healthcare and food access and more. Today, it’s about investing in ... |
| Jul 31, 2020 | Cultivated Tech: Geltor Raises US$91.3M To Replace Animal Gelatin In Cosmetics & Food | 1
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Biodesign startup Geltor has announced the closing of a US$91.3 million Series B financing round, which will go towards accelerating its animal-free ingredient platform. The startup cultivates its sustainable “designer... |
| Jul 28, 2020 | Biodesign Geltor Receives $91.3M Series B Funding | Geltor yesterday announced that it has closed its Series B financing round at $91.3M. The California based biodesign company creates advanced designer animal-free products aimed at consumer brands with global scale in the beauty, nutraceuti... |
| Jul 28, 2020 | Biodesign Geltor Receives $91.3M Series B Funding | PRNewsfoto/Geltor Gina Boswell
Geltor yesterday announced that it has closed its Series B financing round at $91.3M. The California based biodesign company creates advanced designer animal-free products aimed at consumer brands with global ... |
| Jul 28, 2020 | Biodesign Company Geltor Raises $91.3 Million | Geltor recently announced that it has closed a $91.3 million Series B round of funding. These are the details about the funding.
Geltor recently announced that it has closed a $91.3 million Series B round of funding that will drive the glob... |
| Jul 27, 2020 | Geltor raises $91 million in Series B funding to engineer 100% animal- and GMO-free proteins | Geltor, a San Francisco-based bio-design tech startup that makes designer proteins for consumers, with a focus on functionality and sustainability, today announced it has closed $91.3 million Series B financing to fuel the global expansion ... |
| Jul 27, 2020 | Geltor Raises $91.3M in Series B Funding | Geltor, a San Leandro, Calif.-based Ingredients-as-a-Service™ platform, closed a $91.3M Series B financing.
The round was led by CPT Capital (London, UK), with participation from WTT Investment Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan), returning investors Cul... |
| Jul 27, 2020 | Geltor raises $91.3m to expand animal-free collagen platform: ‘Our goal is to make it ridiculously easy for iconic brands to build sustainable products’ | Returning investors in the round include Cultivian Sandbox, SOSV, and iSelect Fund, along with the investment arms of global ingredient technology companies GELITA and Archer Daniels Midland. New investors include Blue Horizon Ventures, RIT... |
| Jul 27, 2020 | Geltor Lands $91.3M Series B | |
| Jul 27, 2020 | Geltor brews up $91.3m Series B to offer collagen ingredients-as-a-service model | The vast majority of the world’s collagen supply comes from pigs. But with African Swine Flu ravaging the pork industry, and a global pandemic folded into the mix early this year, wreaking havoc on meat supply chains, alternative sources ar... |
| Jul 24, 2020 | Investments in bioproducts surge as Geltor nabs new money | The manufacturer of a vegan collagen, Geltor, has raised a new round of financing — $90 million, according to people familiar with the company.
It’s another sign of the newfound viability of sustainability and cell-based, vegetarian replace... |
| Nov 1, 2019 | After signing a big food additive deal, cell-based protein company Geltor is looking for at least $50M | After inking what sources said was a nine-figure deal with the world’s leading supplier of collagen proteins, Gelita, the cell-based collagen maker Geltor is in the market for at least $50 million in new funding, TechCrunch has learned.
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| Oct 18, 2019 | Bio-designed and ‘animal-free’ collagen on the horizon as Geltor and Gelita deepen ties | My bet is that one of the trendy agtech and foodtech hashtags of next year will be #biodesign. And that’s kind of a passé prediction; it is already trending in some circles, not least among attendees of the recent SynBioBeta conference in S... |
| Oct 17, 2019 | Geltor teams up with GELITA to commercialize animal-free ‘biodesigned’ collagen for supplements | Geltor – which raised $18.2m last year in a Series A round from investors including GELITA - is using synthetic biology techniques to engineer micro-organisms to produce collagen (which is currently extracted from animal skin, bones, an... |
| Sep 19, 2019 | What’s next beyond soy, pea, and wheat for plant-based meat? In conversation with ADM | FNU: Which plant-based proteins aside from soy, pea and wheat have the most potential for meat analogs and why?
KL: We’ve got a new plant in Enderlin, North Dakota, where we’re ramping up [capacity] and we’re releasing pea protein on a l... |
| Aug 16, 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 ... |
| Mar 29, 2019 | Geltor Unveils First Biodesigned Human Collagen for Skincare Market | Conscious biodesign company Geltor today announced HumaColl21™, the first ever human collagen created for cosmetics formulations, sustainably produced with zero animal inputs. HumaColl21 is a first of its kind commercial human Type 21 colla... |
| Feb 12, 2019 | Two former members of Google’s skunkworks division have launched a biomanufacturing company | Biomanufacturing technologies — taking modified versions of existing organisms and bending them to the will of humans — has moved from the world of science fiction to becoming a new reality.
Across the startup landscape companies are launch... |
| Oct 29, 2018 | Daily funding roundup - October 29th, 2018 | WAYV and Zentail raised $5M; Unu motors raised $12M; AnyMind Group raised $13.4M
WAYV: WAYV is a B2B cannabis logistics and compliance platform that delivers inventory to cannabis retailers. WAYV has raised $5 million in seed funding led by... |
| Oct 29, 2018 | Term Sheet — Monday, October 29 | EPIC FUNDING
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| Oct 26, 2018 | Geltor Raises $18.2m in Series A Funding | Geltor, a San Leandro, CA-based bio-design company, raised $18.2m in Series A financing.
The round, which brought the total funding raised to $23m, was led by Cultivian Sandbox Ventures, with participation from Gelita and ADM Ventures, Arch... |
| Oct 25, 2018 | Geltor Raises $18.2m for Animal-Free “Designer Collagen” | Geltor, a Californian startup using computational biology and fermentation techniques to produce collagen products without using animal byproducts, has raised $18.2 million in Series A funding.
The startup, which has focused on the cosmetic... |
| Oct 25, 2018 | Term Sheet — Thursday, October 25 | THREE THINGS
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| Oct 25, 2018 | Geltor raises $18.2m, gears up for 2020 launch of animal-free collagen proteins for the food industry | The company – which is using synthetic biology techniques to engineer micro-organisms to produce collagen (from which gelatin is derived) via a fermentation process without using or harming animals – says there is significant demand for veg... |
| Jun 8, 2018 | Start-Up Aims to Replace Animal Gelatine by 2020 | The new American start-up Geltor specialises in animal-free, plant-based gelatine, and is researching new biotechnological alternatives for this purpose. Geltor has set itself the goal of completely replacing conventional animal gelatine by... |
| Mar 12, 2018 | Making mastodon gummies, Geltor is recreating a truly paleo diet | Paul Shapiro Contributor
Paul Shapiro s the author of "Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World".
Most paleo dieters try to stick to some type of regimen similar to what they think our d... |
| Feb 7, 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... |
| Aug 22, 2017 | Cargill and other 'food industry giants' join $17m funding round for clean meat co Memphis Meats | The Series A funding round - led by venture capital firm DFJ (which has backed firms including skype, Tesla and SpaceX) was supported by a flurry of high profile investors* including Bill Gates and Richard Branson, taking Memphis Meats' tot... |
| Jun 29, 2017 | VIDEO: Will we need a new regulatory framework for clean (cultured) meat? | Speaking to FoodNavigator-USA at the IFT show in Las Vegas this week, Davis Wright Tremaine counsel Rebecca Cross said: “I think there are some misperceptions out there in the industry that these products are not regulated, or regulators do... |
| Jun 26, 2017 | Hampton Creek to enter clean meat market in 2018: 'We are building a multi-species, multi-product platform' | Fischer was speaking to us after Hampton Creek founder Josh Tetrick posted an article on linkedin explaining that producing 'clean' or 'cultured' meat (by culturing cells without raising or slaughtering animals) and plant-based meat/eggs,... |
| Jun 7, 2017 | What's the path to commercialization for clean meat? | In a mapping document penned by GFI senior scientists Liz Specht, Ph.D., and Christie Lagally, the authors note that, “Clean meat will likely find an early market entry point as a high-value ingredient in products that are predominantly ... |
| Mar 10, 2017 | Biotech company Bolt Threads debuts $314 necktie made entirely from ‘spider silk’ | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Bay Area biotechnology company Bolt Threads is of... |
| Mar 10, 2017 | Biotech company Bolt Threads debuts $314 necktie made entirely from ‘spider silk’ | Bay Area biotechnology company Bolt Threads is offering the first glimpse of its futuristic fibers with the debut of a necktie made entirely from lab-produced “spider silk.”
Founded in 2009, Bolt Threads has been setting out to “engineer th... |
| Dec 27, 2016 | The 4 Key Biotechnologies Needed to Get Cellular Agriculture to Commercialization | Editor’s Note: Emily Byrd is the communications manager for The Good Food Institute, a nonprofit that works with scientists, investors, and entrepreneurs to support innovations in plant-based foods and clean meat. Here she outlines some of ... |
| Oct 8, 2016 | A startup founder’s playbook for transforming big industry | Agile development, rapid learning, granular instrumentation, a large-scale compute and data infrastructure, cutting-edge machine learning — these are the ingredients that give innovative companies their edge.
But to date, this mindset and a... |
| Oct 8, 2016 | A startup founder’s playbook for transforming big industry | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Agile development, rapid learning, granular instr... |
| Oct 3, 2016 | Fifty Years — The new Silicon Valley VC that wants to save the world AND make money | “We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium. Synthetic food will, of course, also be used in the future. Nor need the pleasures of t... |
| Opportunities at the Intersection of Biology, Software, and Automation | Over the past two decades, we’ve seen hundreds of billions of dollars of market capitalization created by new software and infrastructure companies built at the intersection of mobile, data, and cloud computing.
Now, we’re in the middle of... |
| Precision Fermentation | Precision Fermentation
Fermentation has been used in food production for centuries – you can thank it for beer, wine, kimchi, yogurt and much more. But precision fermentation technology is taking this metabolic process to new heights by app... |
| 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... |
