| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.09.2024 | Impossible Foods and Motif FoodWorks Settle Heme Patent Tech Dispute | Impossible Foods and Motif FoodWorks have announced a joint settlement agreement regarding the legal battle over a patent infringement of heme technology using yeast and precision fermentation.
Under the deal, Impossible Foods would acquire... |
| 03.09.2024 | Impossible Foods and Motif FoodWorks bury the legal hatchet in IP dispute | The high-profile legal battle between Impossible Foods and Motif FoodWorks over the use of meaty-tasting heme proteins in plant-based meat has come to a close after two and a half years of costly wrangling over IP.
The dispute began in Marc... |
| 18.06.2024 | PTAB invalidates Impossible Foods patent following challenge by Motif FoodWorks, but denies requests to review 6 others | The US Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has invalidated 23 out of 24 claims in an Impossible Foods patent following a challenge by Motif FoodWorks, but denied requests to review six other patents also at issue in a high-profile legal di... |
| 13.11.2023 | Exclusive: Motif FoodWorks CEO departs as firm ‘refocuses priorities’ and creates ‘leaner organizational structure’ | Motif FoodWorks CEO Dr. Mike Leonard has left the Boston-based foodtech firm and has been replaced by Brian Brazeau on an interim basis as the company engages in a fresh round of layoffs, AgFunderNews has learned. Brazeau is the startup’s t... |
| 05.07.2023 | Brief: Impossible Foods goes after Ginkgo Bioworks in amended lawsuit over heme proteins in alt meat | Impossible Foods has added Ginkgo Bioworks as a defendant in its patent infringement lawsuit against foodtech rival Motif Foodworks over the use of heme proteins in meat alternatives.
A synthetic biology specialist that licensed technology ... |
| 20.06.2023 | US patent office to review Impossible Foods IP following challenge by Motif FoodWorks as legal dispute intensifies | The US Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has agreed to review a patent granted to Impossible Foods following a petition by Motif FoodWorks, which is being sued by Impossible for patent infringement.
The US patent is one of several grante... |
| 18.04.2023 | Motif FoodWorks Debuts Its First DTC Vegan Burgers | 2 Mins Read Boston-based Motif FoodWorks has announced a limited-edition release of its debut product: the Motif BeefWorks plant-based burger patties.
Motif, which operates predominantly as a B2B, says it has been sampling the burgers to re... |
| 01.03.2023 | Motif FoodWorks explores molecular farming for heme proteins as precision fermentation capacity bottleneck bites | Is it more efficient to make “animal-free” meat and dairy proteins in plants or fermentation tanks?
Motif FoodWorks, which currently makes myoglobin via precision fermentation, is now exploring whether corn could also serve as an effective ... |
| 03.02.2023 | Why plant-based meat is not ‘just another fad’ | The following is a guest post from Michael Leonard, CEO of Motif FoodWorks, who has nearly two decades of experience in senior industrial science and technology roles in the specialty food ingredient and fast-moving consumer goods industrie... |
| 07.12.2022 | Impossible Foods EU patent revoked; US IP dispute with Motif FoodWorks ramps up: 'If Impossible wins, it means no one else can experiment with heme in the plant-based industry.' | At issue is the use of heme proteins in plant-based meat alternatives, an area in which Impossible and Motif – who have each laid off staff in recent months as market conditions have deteriorated – both play.
Impossible Foods’ heme protein ... |
| 21.10.2022 | Motif FoodWorks partners to improve dairy and meat alternatives | Dive Brief:
Food tech powerhouse Motif FoodWorks partnered with Norwegian biotech specialist Vectron Biosolutions to use precision fermentation to develop next-generation animal-free proteins. Motif initiated this partnership two years ago,... |
| 04.08.2022 | Boston’s Motif FoodWorks Appoints Michael Leonard as New CEO | Food technology company Motif FoodWorks announces that Michael Leonard has been appointed Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Leonard will replace previous CEO Jonathan McIntyre, who is transitioning to an advisory role.
“I look... |
| 04.08.2022 | New CEO at Motif FoodWorks after recent round of layoffs | Prior to joining Motif in 2019, Leonard held senior roles in R&D and business development at Kraft Heinz, PepsiCo, DuPont Nutrition & Health and IFF, and takes the helm at Motif at a challenging time for the company, which has raise... |
| 14.07.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Cruising Kitchens nets $100m, foodtech layoffs & shutdowns continue | The biggest funding round this week went to mobile kitchen manufacturer Cruising Kitchens, which counts Hard Rock Cafe, Whataburger, and the LA Dodgers among its clients.
But a growing number of foodtech headlines these days seems to be abo... |
| 08.07.2022 | Motif FoodWorks lays off employees as it restructures | Dive Brief:
Food-tech firm Motif FoodWorks has laid off an unspecified number of employees after undergoing a restructuring. The news was first reported by FoodNavigator.
“Given the current economic conditions, we’re pivoting our focus to k... |
| 06.07.2022 | Layoffs at Motif FoodWorks: ‘We’re pivoting our focus to key priorities that we know will return maximum ROI’ | A spokesperson would not confirm how many people had been laid off at the firm during a recent restructuring, but added: “Given the current economic conditions, we’re pivoting our focus to key priorities that we know will return ma... |
| 19.05.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Downey Jr’s Footprint backs Motif; Unilever joins $1bn regen ag fund | One of India’s leading food and restaurant delivery services made another big-ticket acquisition this week, while alt-protein producers raised several early-stage rounds. Upstream, Unilever joined a new $1.06 billion fund to accelerate adop... |
| 18.05.2022 | Motif FoodWorks launches plant-based meat products | Dive Brief:
Motif FoodWorks is launching finished plant-based meat products for foodservice providers, distributors and retailers with private label lines: Motif MoBeef, Motif MoPork and Motif MoChicken. MoBeef Plant-Based Burger Patties ar... |
| 18.05.2022 | Robert Downey Jr.’s FootPrint Coalition Invests in Motif Foodworks For “New-to-the-World” Plant-Based Foods | Robert Downey Jr.’s FootPrint Coalition Ventures invests in Boston’s Motif Foodworks to create next gen plant-based foods “moving beyond animal mimicry” into new product categories, as the company simultaneously announces its launch into fo... |
| 05.05.2022 | Motif FoodWorks Strategically Invests in NemaLife to Speed Up Food Ingredient Testing | Motif FoodWorks, a Boston food tech company, is partnering with microfluidics company NemaLife to utilize the latter’s platform for in-vivo testing and protein characterization. Motif also invested in NemaLife for an undisclosed amount. Mot... |
| 21.04.2022 | Motif FoodWorks hits back at Impossible Foods in heme patent spat | Last month, AFN reported that Impossible Foods had sued Motif FoodWorks in a US federal court for alleged infringement of one of its patents relating to the use of heme in plant-based meat replacement products.
Now, Motif has struck back wi... |
| 13.04.2022 | Brief: Ginkgo Bioworks and Elanco launch animal health company BiomEdit | US synthetic biology company Ginkgo Bioworks and Elanco Animal Health Incorporated are launching a “microbiome innovation” company that will develop microbiome-based products and services for improved animal health. The new company, called ... |
| 23.03.2022 | WATCH EXPO WEST 2022… We’re making ‘a different protein completely’ to Impossible Foods, says Motif FoodWorks | Speaking to FoodNavigator-USA at the Natural Products Expo West trade show in Anaheim earlier this month, a day after being accused by Impossible Foods of patent infringement, Motif FoodWorks CTO Dr Michael Leonard said: “They [Impossibl... |
| 10.03.2022 | Impossible Foods sues Motif FoodWorks over its plant-based heme product | Dive Brief:
Impossible Foods sued Motif FoodWorks, claiming that it infringed on at least one of Impossible's patents through demonstration of Motif's plant-based Hemami ingredient. The lawsuit, filed in Delaware federal court, asks the cou... |
| 10.03.2022 | The Lowdown: Impossible Foods sues Motif FoodWorks over heme patent | Impossible Foods has sued fellow foodtech player Motif FoodWorks for patent infringement, in one of the highest-profile intellectual property (IP) disputes to date in the burgeoning alt-protein space.
In its complaint filed yesterday with t... |
| 10.03.2022 | Impossible Foods accuses Motif FoodWorks of patent infringement over flagship ‘heme’ ingredient; Motif blasts lawsuit as ‘baseless attempt to stifle competition’ | In a lawsuit* filed March 9 - weeks after Meati Foods and The Better Meat Co became embroiled in a legal dispute over IP surrounding mycelium-based meat substitutes - Impossible Foods is seeking unspecified damages and injunctive relief t... |
| 10.03.2022 | Impossible Foods Files Lawsuit Against Motif Foodworks Over Heme Patent | Impossible Foods, the alt meat market leader, has sued Motif Foodworks over accusations that the food tech startup copied its heme technology. Motif Foodworks has disputed the claim, which concerns its debut product; HEMAMI.
The lawsuit sta... |
| 14.12.2021 | Motif FoodWorks Launches Signature HEMAMI Plant-Based Protein After Gaining FDA Approval | 3 Mins Read
HEMAMI, the flagship food tech solution from Boston-based Motif FoodWorks has been granted Generally Recognised as Safe (GRAS) status from the U.S. FDA and is now being released commercially. The product is designed to add authe... |
| 09.12.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: India leads as AgroStar, Ola, WayCool & Samhitha score funding | Online farmer marketplace Agrostar scored $70 million while delivery and transport app Ola bagged $139 million as Indian startups led in the agrifoodtech funding stakes this past week. Elsewhere, the US’s Serve Robotics raised $13 million f... |
| 08.12.2021 | Motif FoodWorks launches HEMAMI heme-binding protein delivering the ‘flavor and aroma of real meat,' receives GRAS no questions letter from FDA | According to a GRAS determination submitted to the FDA and now available to view on the FDA website, the protein is myoglobin, a heme-binding protein found in the muscle tissue of cows that Motif is expressing in a genetically engineered ... |
| 08.12.2021 | Motif Foodworks Launches HEMAMI Heme Ingredient After FDA Approval | Motif Foodworks, a Boston-based food technology company, today announced the launch of its HEMAMI heme ingredient following GRAS approval by the FDA. Motif’s revolutionary HEMAMI, which is the company’s debut product, is now available for l... |
| 30.09.2021 | Data Snapshot: Alt-protein, functional foods raise record $1.4bn in H1 2021 | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
Startups developing innovative food and ingredients, including alt-proteins, raised a total of $1.4 bil... |
| 17.09.2021 | ‘A gamechanger for flavor in meat alternatives…’ Motif FoodWorks to launch heme-binding protein delivering ‘flavor and aroma of real meat’ | A GRAS determination is currently pending with the FDA, and FoodNavigator-USA understands that the myoglobin preparation - supplied as a frozen liquid - is intended for use at inclusion rates of ≤2%, to mimic flavors associated with cooke... |
| 17.09.2021 | ‘A gamechanger for flavor in meat alternatives…’ Motif FoodWorks to launch heme-binding protein delivering ‘flavor and aroma of real meat’ | According to the GRAS determination (submitted in April and currently pending with the FDA), the myoglobin preparation - supplied as a frozen liquid - is intended for use at inclusion rates of ≤2%, to “mimic flavors associated with cooked... |
| 18.06.2021 | Motif FoodWorks Raises US$ 226M in Series B Funding | Motif FoodWorks, a Boston MA-based food technology company that makes plant-based ingredients and flavourings bagged US$ 226M in Series B funding led by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board and BlackRock. |
| 17.06.2021 | The return of former Athenahealth CEO, Jonathan Bush | 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.
Almost three years ago exactly, Jonathan Bush was forced out as CEO of Athenahealth—a company tha... |
| 17.06.2021 | Motif FoodWorks Raises $226M in Series B Funding | Motif FoodWorks, a Boston MA-based food technology company, raised $226m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board and BlackRock, with participation from AiiM Partners, Wittington Ventures, Rethink Food,... |
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| 17.06.2021 | Motif FoodWorks Raises $226M to Develop “Breakthrough Solutions” For Plant-Based Foods | US food-tech company Motif FoodWorks has raised a huge $226 million in its Series B funding round. The round was led by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, along with funds and accounts managed by BlackRock.
Other investors included AiiM ... |
| 16.06.2021 | Motif Foodworks Raises $226M to Make Plant-Based Products Taste Better | Photo: Motif Foodworks
Boston-based food-tech startup Motif Foodworks announced Wednesday it raised a whopping $226 million Series B, which it will use to accelerate the development and commercialization of its plant-based meat and dairy pr... |
| 16.06.2021 | Motif FoodWorks raises $226m in Series B, gears up for launch of ingredient to transform flavor and performance of plant-based meat | Powered by Ginkgo Bioworks' bioengineering platform, Motif FoodWorks was founded in early 2019, and will commercialize its first ingredient – designed to improve the flavor and performance of plant based meat – by the end of this ye... |
| 16.06.2021 | Motif FoodWorks : Announces $226 Million Series B Funding Round | BOSTON, June 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Motif FoodWorks, the food technology company on a mission to make plant-based food better tasting and more nutritious, today announced it has raised $226 million in Series B funding.
The round was joint... |
| 16.06.2021 | Motif FoodWorks raises $226m to tackle plant-based’s challenges with texture & taste | Alt-protein company Motif FoodWorks has raised $226 million in Series B funding. The round was jointly led by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board — through its Teachers’ Innovation Platform — and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock.
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Motif FoodWorks, a maker of plant-based ingredients and flavorings, on Wednesday said it raised $226 million at an undisclosed valuation in a series B funding round led by Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board and funds and... |
| 16.06.2021 | Motif FoodWorks Secures US$226M To Scale & Commercialise Its Plant-Based Protein Tech | 3 Mins Read
Ingredient innovation startup Motif FoodWorks has raised US$226 million in a Series B funding round to expand its R&D capabilities and make make plant-based food better tasting and more nutritious. Agfunder News (AFN) announ... |
| 16.06.2021 | Motif FoodWorks raises $226 million | BOSTON —Food technology company Motif FoodWorks raised $226 million in a Series B funding round.
The round was co-led by investment management company BlackRock and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, through its Teachers’ Innovation Plat... |
| 13.05.2021 | How New Technology Is Making Plant-Based Foods Taste And Look Better | Motif’s prolamin technology in action via a plant-based cheese pull. Prolamin protein improves the ... [+] stretch and melting of plant-based cheese.Motif FoodWorks |
| 13.05.2021 | Motif Announces Transformative Technologies For “Cheese That Actually Stretches and Melts” & “Meat With Marbleized Fat Just Like a Ribeye” | Motif FoodWorks today announces it has gained exclusive access to food technologies with the potential to transform the consumer experience with plant-based meat and cheese. Motif claims that the two technologies “hold the promise to addres... |
| 11.02.2021 | Gates can create world’s biggest agrifoodtech testbed, but needs to win over farmers first | Last month, US land investment magazine The Land Report published research indicating that Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda own the largest stock of private farmland in the US.
About 242,000 acres of it in fact, and part of... |
| 11.02.2021 | OPINION: Bill & Melinda Gates can create the world’s biggest agrifoodtech testbed – but they need to win over farmers first | Last month, US land investment magazine The Land Report published research indicating that Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda own the largest stock of farmland in the US.
About 242,000 acres of it in fact, and part of a broad... |
| 01.10.2020 | Motif FoodWorks preps commercial production for its first ingredient | Motif FoodWorks, the Ginkgo Bioworks spinout focused on developing new plant-based flavorings and food ingredients, is readying commercial scale production of its first product — an ingredient to improve the flavor of beef substitutes.
The ... |
| 28.09.2020 | Alt Protein conference highlights: ‘We’ll see more change in the next 10 years than we’ve seen in the last 10,000’ | The report's apocalyptic predictions “seemed outlandish,” when it first came out, said Ryan Bethencourt, co-founder of petfood brand Wild Earth, partner at Babel Ventures and co-founder at IndieBio, a biology accelerator and early stage ... |
| 10.06.2020 | Secret Ingredient: Motif FoodWorks To Replicate Animal Fat For Plant-Based Meat & Dairy | 4 1
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Motif FoodWorks, a Boston-based ingredient innovation startup, has just announced a new exclusive research collaboration with University of Guelph in Canada and founder of food tech Coasun Inc. and food science prof... |
| 02.06.2020 | Motif FoodWorks Announces Research Collaboration With Renowned Scientist to Develop “Unprecedented” Improvements in Plant-based Foods | ©Motif Foodworks
Motif FoodWorks has today announced an exclusive research collaboration with Dr. Alejandro Marangoni for formulating lipids and fiber-forming ingredients in plant-based meats and dairy products that “have the potential to e... |
| 02.06.2020 | Motif FoodWorks Announces Research Collaboration With Renowned Scientist to Develop “Unprecedented” Improvements in Plant-based Foods | Motif FoodWorks has today announced an exclusive research collaboration with Dr. Alejandro Marangoni for formulating lipids and fiber-forming ingredients in plant-based meats and dairy products that “have the potential to enable unprecedent... |
| 28.01.2020 | Motif Foodworks: “Emerging Technologies and Innovations in this Space Demonstrate That Animal-Free Options Will Only Get Better and Better” | Motif FoodWorks is an ingredients company which uses food science to uncover what makes the food we love so good—at a molecular level—and recreate those attributes without using animal products. The company partners with food and nutrition ... |
| 31.12.2019 | Counting down Boston’s biggest venture rounds from 2019 | Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.
Today, the last day of 2019, we’re taking a second look at Boston. Regular readers of this column will recall that we rec... |
| 11.12.2019 | Happy McVeganuary: McDonald’s to offer first fully vegan meal in UK in Q1 2020 | In the UK, the practice of Veganuary — being vegan for the month of January — is starting to catch the attention of the fast-food giants.
This Tuesday, McDonald’s said it will be putting out its first fully vegan meal to coincide with the s... |
| 13.11.2019 | Motif FoodWorks To Open New Lab Space, Selects Boston’s Seaport District as Headquarters | Motif FoodWorks is an ingredient innovation company specialised in “making plant-based food better tasting and more nutritious with animal-free ingredients and deep food science expertise.” Yesterday the company announced it has selected th... |
| 07.10.2019 | Motif FoodWorks Announces Expansion of Executive Team Following Recent $27.5M Funding | Motif FoodWorks, an ingredient innovation company, today announced the appointment of Michael Leonard as Chief Technology Officer and Elizabeth King as VP, People & Culture. The strategic hires bring key technical and people expertise t... |
| 19.09.2019 | Ginkgo Bioworks’ dev shop for genetic programming is now worth $4 billion | Ginkgo Bioworks is now worth $4 billion after a $290 million capital infusion that will give the company the cash to dramatically expand its developer shop for genetic programming.
The Boston-based company is one of a handful of U.S.-based ... |
| 09.09.2019 | First products from Motif FoodWorks’ fermentation-based protein platform ready to launch in 2021 | Powered by Gingko Bioworks' bio-engineering platform, Boston-based Motif Foodworks effectively reads the DNA of key animal and plant proteins, writes it [prints DNA sequences], and places it in an appropriate micro-organism that expres... |
| 20.08.2019 | Motif FoodWorks raises $27.5m to help build its fermentation-based protein platform | Powered by Ginkgo Bioworks’ platform for biological engineering, Motif FoodWorks will engineer dozens of proteins derived from dairy, egg, meat, and plants, but is not saying at this stage which ones it will commercialize first.
The ca... |
| 16.08.2019 | Motif FoodWorks Lands $27.5M |
BOSTON, MA, Motif FoodWorks announced it received $27.5 million in funding led by General Atlantic.
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| 16.08.2019 | Motif FoodWorks Raises $27.5M | Ingredients innovation company, Motif Ingredients, today announced it received $27.5 million in funding led by General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm, with participation from CPT Capital. The company also revealed a new brand... |
| 15.08.2019 | Motif Ingredients Raises $27.5M; Rebrands to Motif FoodWorks | Motif Ingredients, a Boston, MA-based ingredients innovation company, received $27.5m in funding and revealed a new brand identity and name, Motif FoodWorks.
The round gas led by General Atlantic, with participation from CPT Capital. Peter ... |
| 15.08.2019 | Rebranded Ginkgo-spinout & ingredients innovator Motif FoodWorks raises $27.5m, hones in on animal-free | Food ingredients innovator Motif has raised $27.5 million in funding led by global growth equity firm General Atlantic with participation from CPT Capital, and has rebranded as Motif FoodWorks.
The rebrand emphasizes Motif’s plans to become... |
| 15.08.2019 | Motif Ingredients Rebrands to Motif FoodWorks, Raises $27.5 Million to Fuel Animal-Free Ingredients R&D | Global Growth Investor General Atlantic Leads Funding Round
Company Appoints Head of Regulatory, Government and Industry Affairs, Business Development Leads |
| 15.08.2019 | Motif Ingredients Rebrands to Motif FoodWorks, Raises $27.5 Million to Develop Animal-Free Ingredients | Ingredients innovation company, Motif Ingredients, today announced it received $27.5 million in funding led by General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm, with participation from CPT Capital. The company also announces a rebrandi... |
| - | Layoffs hit plant-based meat company Motif FoodWorks a year it raised $226 million as sales growth and investments in plant-based foods cools | Webb Chappell This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Motif FoodsWorks laid off an undisclosed number of employees this week.
The alternative protein company cited "economic ... |
