| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.09.2024 | The Rise of Fermented Fats: Melt&Marble's Milestone in Sustainable Food Production | In the world of food innovation, a new player is making waves. Melt&Marble, a Swedish startup, has crossed a significant threshold. They have successfully produced over 10,000 liters of fermented fats. This achievement is not just a num... |
| 11.09.2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Vegan Domino’s, Plant-Based Dairylea & A KitKat Copycat | 4 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Fry’s Family Foods’ formable mince, Domino’s vegan cheese col... |
| 09.09.2024 | Fermented Fats Designer Melt&Marble Achieves 10,000-Liter Production Milestone | Precision fermentation startup Melt&Marble has achieved a milestone in biomanufacturing with the demo-scale production of over ten thousand liters of fermentation for fats.
According to the Swedish startup, the target bioprocess perform... |
| 09.09.2024 | Melt&Marble Achieves Demo-Scale Success with Over 10,000 Liters of Fermented Fat | Precision fermentation startup Melt&Marble has achieved a milestone in biomanufacturing with the demo-scale production of over ten thousand liters of fermented fats.
According to the Swedish startup, the target bioprocess performance wa... |
| 07.08.2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Bar Vegan, Mr. Charlie’s & EU Alt-Protein Investments | 5 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Mr. Charlie’s new vegan cheeseburger, Califia Farms’ acquisit... |
| 07.08.2024 | European Fermentation Startups Raised More Funds in H1 2024 Than All of 2023 | 5 Mins Read Within the first six months of 2024, European precision and biomass fermentation startups attracted more investment than they did in all of 2023.
Between regulatory wins, market breakthroughs, and dominant investment rounds, 202... |
| 05.08.2024 | Impossible Burger Closer to EU Market as “Bleeding” Fermented Heme Deemed Safe | The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has deemed Impossible Foods‘ precision fermentation-derived heme — soy leghemoglobin — safe for consumption. Soy leghemoglobin is responsible for the famous “bleeding” meat-like color and flavor of ... |
| 29.07.2024 | Melt&Marble awarded €2.76M by European Innovation Council | Foodtech Melt&Marble have secured €2.76M in EU grants to support development and commercial launch of a new, highly sustainable meat-like fat for use in alt-meat.
The maker of sustainable designer fats, has been selected to receive a €2... |
| 29.07.2024 | Melt&Marble Lands €2.76M in EU Grants for Market Launch of “Designer” Fats in 2025 | Sweden’s Melt&Marble has been selected as one of 68 European deep tech startups chosen from 969 applicants to receive a €2.5 million grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator. The company also announces that it has se... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Creamy Future: Nourish Ingredients and Fonterra’s Fermentation Revolution**
** | ** In a world where food innovation meets sustainability, a new partnership is stirring the pot. Australian startup Nourish Ingredients is teaming up with New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra to create a new wave of dairy and non-dairy products... |
| 23.07.2024 | Designer lipids startup Nourish Ingredients collaborates with dairy giant Fonterra on fats from fermentation | Australian startup Nourish Ingredients has announced a collaboration with dairy giant Fonterra to accelerate the development of dairy products with fats produced via fermentation.
Nourish, which is developing a range of high-impact, low-inc... |
| 18.03.2024 | Designing next gen fats and oils | CHICAGO — Fat is a necessary macronutrient in the human diet historically obtained from animals and plants. As a solid fat or liquid oil, the ingredient also may offer functional aspects in many formulations. Technology enables the design o... |
| 13.03.2024 | Melt&Marble Unlocks Commercial-Scale Production for Animal-Free Designer Fat, Sets Sights on US Market by 2025 | Melt&Marble, a Swedish precision fermentation company that specializes in designer fats for food and other applications, has revealed new headquarters with expanded R&D and production capabilities.
The facility features “state-of-th... |
| 01.03.2024 | Op Ed: Thomas Cresswell, CBO of Melt&Marble, on the Route to Market and Scalability for Fermentation-Enabled Ingredients | Thomas Cresswell has over a decade of diverse experience spanning investment banking, strategy consulting, and venture capital. He began his career in the M&A team at RBC Capital Markets in London, before transitioning to strategy consu... |
| 20.12.2023 | Sustainability dominated the foodtech landscape in 2023. Here's what it means for 2024 | Foodtech is one of the most relatable topics in my conversations with non-tech enthusiasts. The allure of trying edible insects and exploring vegetarian alternatives resonates widely.
Food production contributes to 25 percent of global gree... |
| 17.10.2023 | Can ‘designer fats’ made by microbes compete with animal fats and tropical oils? In conversation with Melt & Marble | The race is on to replace tropical [coconut, palm, cocoa] and animal fats with alternatives boasting superior functionality and a reduced environmental footprint. But will oil-producing microbes – even very high-yielding ones – ever be a sc... |
| 25.08.2023 | Meet the founder: Chewing the designer fat with Satnam Singh at Fattastic Technologies | From hydrogenation to interesterification, there are many ways to change the properties of fats, says Fattastic Technologies founder Satnam Singh. But finding a cost-effective, scalable approach to create the next generation of healthy fats... |
| 11.08.2023 | Op Ed: Dr Anastasia Krivoruchko, CEO of Melt & Marble, on Why Reformation of Food Regulations is Imperative | Dr. Anastasia Krivoruchko is an entrepreneurial scientist with a strong research background in molecular biology, microbial metabolic engineering, and synthetic biology. With over ten years of experience in precision fermentation, Anastasia... |
| 02.06.2023 | Meet the founders: ÄIO looks to upcycled feedstocks to fuel biomanufacturing platform | Used in everything from lipsticks to confectionery and meat alternatives, tropical oils such as palm and coconut come with environmental and societal costs. But can oil-producing microbes snacking on upcycled feedstocks give them a run for ... |
| 06.05.2022 | Sweden’s Melt&Marble has created non-animal fat with properties of beef fat for plant-based food sector; raises €5M | Gothenburg, Sweden-based Melt&Marble (previously Biopetrolia), a company working on fermentation-based production of animal fats, announced on Thursday that it has raised €5M in its Seed round of funding.
Prior to this, the company had ... |
| 06.05.2022 | Melt&Marble Secures €5 Million After Showcasing Precision Fermented ‘Beef’ Fat | 4 Mins Read
Swedish startup Melt&Marble, which makes animal fat analogues, has closed a €5 million seed funding round, led by Lever VC. The company recently unveiled its alternative to beef fat that can be customised for plant-based mea... |
| 05.05.2022 | Melt&Marble Raises €5M for “First Ever” Fermentation-Derived Beef Fat | Sweden’s Melt&Marble has developed what it believes is the world’s first precision fermentation-derived beef fat. The company says this could help close the “taste gap” between plant-based and animal-based foods.
In future, Melt&Mar... |
| 05.05.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Zepto bags $200m, Stanford launches climate change school | This week, Indian “instant delivery” e-grocer Zepto got closer to unicorn status with its Series D fundraise, while Colombia’s RobinFood raised funds to expand its ghost kitchen network across Latin America. Elsewhere, cultivated leather st... |
| 20.08.2021 | Paulig invests in next generation fats for plant-based foods | Paulig invests in next generation fats for plant-based foods Fri, Aug 20, 2021 08:30 CET
Paulig’s venture arm PINC has invested in Swedish start-up Melt&Marble, which has developed yeast as a production platform for tasty and sustainabl... |
| 20.08.2021 | Swedish startup Melt&Marble raises €750K to create fats that close the taste gap between animal and plant-based meats | Melt&Marble (formerly Biopetrolia), a company working on fermentation-based production of animal fats, has closed a seed round of €750K led by Nordic FoodTech VC. Other investors include Paulig’s venture arm PINC, Purple Orange Ventures... |
| - | Nordic Foodtech Venture Capital closes first fund at €42 million | Investing explicitly in the future of food, Helsinki-based Nordic Foodtech VC has closed its first fund at €42 million. As the name might suggest, Nordic Foodtech will be investing in Nordic and Baltic early-stage companies working in and a... |
