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| Jul 1, 2025 | Seaweed and Prairie: The Future of Sustainable Cellular Agriculture | In the race for sustainable food production, two innovative projects are making waves. One harnesses the ocean's bounty, while the other taps into the heart of Canada’s prairies. Both aim to revolutionize cellular agriculture, a field ... |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Alberta Innovates Supports Canada’s Prairie-Based Cellular Agriculture Project with $500,000 Funding | New Harvest Canada has secured a $500,000 investment from Alberta Innovates to support its Cellular Agriculture Prairie Ecosystem (CAPE) Project. This funding will contribute to the $2.4 million, three-year program focused on developing foo... |
| May 27, 2025 | Bezos Earth Fund Awards 24 Grants Totaling $1.2M for AI-Driven Climate Solutions | The Bezos Earth Fund has awarded 24 Phase I grants under its AI Grand Challenge for Climate and Nature, an initiative that aims to use artificial intelligence to accelerate solutions to the world’s biggest environmental challenges.
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| Mar 13, 2025 | The Taste of Tomorrow: Plant-Based Meat and Dairy Innovations | The culinary landscape is shifting. The rise of plant-based alternatives is not just a trend; it’s a revolution. The latest reports and innovations highlight a growing appetite for sustainable food options. But how do these products stack u... |
| Mar 12, 2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Oat Milk Baileys, Beyond Steak Fillet & An Impossible Burger Challenge | 7 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Diageo’s newest non-dairy Baileys, Beyond Meat’s mycelium steak, and Minor Figures’s ‘Hyper’ oat milk. New produc... |
| Mar 6, 2025 | Canadian Government Invests $1M in Cellular Agriculture Research for the Prairies | The Government of Canada has allocated CAD 1 million in funding through Prairies Economic Development Canada (PrairiesCan) to support the Cellular Agriculture Prairies Ecosystem (CAPE) Project, an initiative led by New Harvest Canada. The f... |
| Jul 28, 2024 | The Rise of Cultivated Protein: A New Era in Sustainable Food Production | The world is changing. The way we produce food is evolving. Traditional farming methods are being challenged by innovative technologies. Cultivated meat and seafood are at the forefront of this revolution. They promise to reshape our diets ... |
| Jul 28, 2024 | The Rise of Cultivated Meat: A New Era in Food Innovation | The culinary landscape is shifting. Cultivated meat is stepping into the spotlight, promising a future where food production is sustainable, ethical, and innovative. This revolution is not just a trend; it’s a necessity. As the world grappl... |
| Jul 22, 2024 | University of Waterloo Students Secure $700,000 to Revolutionize Cultivated Seafood with AI | Kevin Shen and Rikard Saqe, students from the Faculties of Science and Mathematics at the University of Waterloo in Canada, have received over $700,000 in grants from Good Food Institute (GFI), Mitacs, and New Harvest to expand their resear... |
| Jul 5, 2023 | CellAgri Portugal to Hold First International Conference with Notable Industry Speakers in Braga | CellAgri Portugal, the Portuguese association for the development of cellular agriculture, is hosting its inaugural international conference on the 7th and 8th of September, 2023, in Braga, Portugal.
The program will provide scientific pres... |
| Jun 12, 2023 | UK: Extracellular Launches Licence-Free Cell Banks to Support Cultivated Meat Research | UK CDMO Extracellular announces the launch of new low-cost cell banks — free from licensing or commercial restrictions — intended for early-stage cultivated meat companies and researchers.
The cell banks offer high-quality cow, pig, and she... |
| Jan 11, 2023 | Lab-grown caviar and foie gras could be biotech's newest goldmine, industry experts say: 'Being ethical is the new luxury' | Lab-grown caviar by Caviar Biotec, an arm of the UK company Exmoor Caviar. Courtesy of Caviar Biotec
Many companies are racing to stock lab-grown meat in supermarkets, but it's an expensive endeavor.
Some entrepreneurs see more potenti... |
| Jul 27, 2022 | CULT Food Science CEO Appointed to Board of Directors of New Harvest Canada | Toronto, Ontario, July 27, 2022 / CNW /– CULT Food Science Corp. (“CULT” or the “Company”) (CSE: CULT) (OTC: CULTF) (FRA: LN0), an innovative investment platform with an exclusive focus on cellular agriculture that is advancing the developm... |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Tripadvisor Study Names New York as Most Vegan-Friendly US City | Meal Delivery Experts, an online review platform, has joined with Tripadvisor to discover which US cities offer the greatest number of vegan food options. With over 1,400 restaurants and food venues offering abundant menu options, New York ... |
| May 30, 2022 | Cultivated Meat Might Seem Alien But It’s Better Than Animal Agriculture | 6 Mins Read
By Matti Wilks.
The world is in the grips of a food-tech revolution. One of the most compelling new developments is cultured meat, also known as clean, cell-based or slaughter-free meat. It’s grown from stem cells taken from a l... |
| Apr 18, 2022 | Cultivated Meat And Cow-Free Dairy Deliver On Protein But Don’t Ravage The Planet | 4 Mins Read
By: Evan Fraser, University of Guelph, Katherine Alexandra Newman, University of Victoria, Lenore Newman, University of The Fraser Valley, Michael von Massow, University of Guelph, Robert Newell, University of The Fraser Valley
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| Apr 1, 2022 | EXCLUSIVE: IntegriCulture debuts animal-free serum tech to radically reduce cultivated meat costs | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in IntegriCulture.
IntegriCulture has announced the commercial release of its basal medium which can be used to produce cultivated meat without the addition of animal-derived growth... |
| Mar 8, 2022 | IWD 2022: Celebrating the Queens Of Alt Protein Who Are Forging The Future Of Food | 166
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The two biggest plant-based protein startups in the world are run by men. The majority of the rising cell-based protein startups are also run by men, alongside most of the vegan investment groups that fund them... |
| Aug 9, 2021 | Red To Green Series – Isha Datar of New Harvest: ‘Sustainability Should Not Rest on Individual Purchasing Decisions, It’s Unfair to Consumers’ | 5 Mins Read
The Red to Green Podcast features food startups and food industry leaders to cover game-changing breakthroughs in the future of food. In Season 3, Promoting Alternative Proteins, show creator Mariana Schmidt takes a deep dive in... |
| Jul 23, 2021 | Don’t blame business for cultivated meat’s cell line shortage. Public funding is the problem | This week, The Guardian‘s sister newspaper The Observer published an article on the issue of limited access to cell lines – one of the essential building blocks for the production of cell-cultured meat.
The article features comments from se... |
| Jul 15, 2021 | The answer to cell-cultured meat’s biggest conundrum? Fruit flies, says Future Fields | Disclosure: AgFunder (our parent company) is an investor in Future Fields through its GROW Impact Fund.
As is doubtless the case with a lot of great Canadian ideas, the founders of Future Fields came up with theirs while waiting in line at ... |
| Jun 16, 2021 | Food System Change: ‘Who’s Making Decisions, Who’s Benefiting, Who’s Gaining The Wealth?’ Errol Schweizer’s Got Questions -Exclusive Interview | 25 Mins Read
Errol Schweizer has spent decades in the food industry, over 25 years in fact. He has held down many positions, from grill cook to stock clerk to purchasing manager. A native of New York’s the Bronx who studied biology and got ... |
| Mar 8, 2021 | IWD 2021: Celebrating the Queens Of Alt Protein Who Are Forging The Future Of Food | 15 Mins Read
Editor’s Note: This list is the result of hours of work, and no doubt we have missed some amazing queens. We will do our best to keep adding. On the startup side, we focused on founders, but many of these startups have incredib... |
| Nov 12, 2020 | Australian Cell-Based Crayfish Research Project Secures Seed Grant From New Harvest | 1
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New York-based cellular agriculture research institute New Harvest has just welcomed a new research fellow, Lisa Musgrove, who is investigating crayfish growth factors and cell-culture. Musgrove is an aquaculture resea... |
| Jun 26, 2019 | Обзор стартапов по производству искусственного мяса | Концепция выращивания мяса в пробирке была популяризирована Джейсоном Матени в начале 2000-х, после создания New Harvest, первой некоммерческой организации в мире, созданной в поддержку исследований мяса in vitro.
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| Nov 1, 2018 | Agrifood — the $8 trillion industry that’s worth your salt | Esther Delignat-Lavaud Rodriguez Contributor
Esther Delignat-Lavaud Rodriguez is an investor at Oxford Capital, a seed and Series A investor in the U.K.
Cannabis-infused drinks. Burgers grown in laboratories. Entire meals in bottles. Consum... |
| Nov 1, 2018 | Agrifood – The $8 Trillion Industry That’s Worth Your Salt | Cannabis-infused drinks. Burgers grown in laboratories. Entire meals in bottles. Consumers, retailers and farmers alike are hungry for the next generation of food, and investors are beginning to acquire the taste, too. Early-stage investmen... |
| Aug 17, 2018 | Two Months After Launch, BlueNalu Secures $4.5m in Seed Funding | Startups in seafood and aquaculture technology are rapidly growing. Some 32 startups in the sector raised $122 million in funding in 2017, a 180% dollar increase on 2014 when AgFunder data records began and half the number of startups close... |
| Jul 18, 2018 | It Shouldn’t Be Called ‘Clean Meat’ But It Will be Clean, says Cultured Meat’s Founder | “I don’t use the term clean meat for a couple of reasons; it can’t translate into Dutch, French or German, and it kind of suggests that current meat is dirty, which I think unnecessarily criminalizes the meat industry and there’s no need fo... |
| Jul 13, 2018 | FDA Addresses Cultured Meat in Crucial First Step for New Industry | “There are no great mysteries when it comes to cell culture. This technology has been around for a long time,” said Jeremiah Fasano, a consumer safety officer focused on biotech and food additive safety at the US Food and Drug Administratio... |
| Apr 23, 2018 | Five Cultured Meat Startups Raise Funding as Fledgling Industry Comes into Focus | So far in 2018, at least five startups using cellular agriculture, the science behind cultured meat that can be used to manufacture many animal products in a lab setting, have raised funds as this fledgling industry diversifies and grows.
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| Oct 13, 2017 | The Future of Pharmaceutical Cannabis May Be Cultured, Not Cultivated | Hyasynth Bio is a Montreal-based biotech startup that has developed a way to produce the active compounds in cannabis without ever growing a plant. Cannabis’s most plentiful active compounds, the non-psychotropic cannabidiol (CBD), and the ... |
| Oct 12, 2017 | What Do Farmers Think About Cultured Meat? | It’s no secret that many efforts to enhance animal welfare through the promotion and development of plant-based alternatives to animal products may not be good news for farmers. The tension often comes out in lawsuits around using words lik... |
| Oct 10, 2017 | Cultured Meat Will Cost Startups $150m-$370m (and Take At Least 4 More Years) to Bring to Market | There is a reason that high profile investors and entrepreneurs — and therefore media outlets globally — are getting increasingly excited about alternative protein-based food sources.
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates tha... |
| May 31, 2017 | Scale is the Real Barrier for Lab-Grown Meat | When the lab-grown meat industry is fully mature, production facilities will look very similar to breweries, according to Michael Selden, cofounder of Finless Foods, an early-stage cultured fish startup.
Lab-grown meat, or cultured meat — n... |
| Dec 21, 2016 | What’s Next for Alternative Proteins Startups? An Interview with Good Food Institute’s Friedrich | Alternative proteins startups are set to be the new trend in 2017, according to Fortune’s Erin Griffith. In her daily newsletter for the private equity and venture capital industry Term Sheet, Griffith recently shared various 2016 takeaways... |
| Nov 7, 2016 | Perfect Day talks animal-free milk at reThink Food 2016: ‘One of the huge questions is what do we call it?’ | Perfect Day is taking food grade yeast, and adding DNA sequences (which can be 3D printed using synthetic biology techniques) which effectively instruct the yeast to produce the proteins found in milk – predominantly casein, but also lactog... |
| Oct 6, 2016 | This Startup Is Making Dairy Milk Without Cows | Meeting a stranger at a bar in Ireland can go a number of different ways. In the case of Ryan Pandya and Perumal Gandhi, coming together in Cork over a pint would lead to the creation of the world's first dairy milk made without cows.
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| Sep 28, 2016 | Alternative Protein Startups Receive Boost from Investor Coalition Worth $1.25tn | The alternative protein movement got a big kick last week when a coalition of large institutional investors joined forces to pressure some of the world’s largest food companies to bring more meat alternatives into their supply chains.
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| Jul 27, 2016 | 3 Key Takeaways from Food Loves Tech in New York | Edible Manhattan and VaynerLive hosted the first ever Food Loves Tech Expo in New York last month to showcase technologies aiming to disrupt our food chain. A number of talks were given throughout the weekend, tied in with numerous exhibits... |
| Jul 5, 2016 | A Closer Look at Cellular Agriculture and the Processes Defining It | Editor’s Note: Cellular agriculture is a method of agricultural production enabling the growth of meat, eggs, and leather in cell culture rather than raising and slaughtering livestock. Next week, scientists and producers spearheading cellu... |
| Jun 30, 2016 | Singapore State Fund Temasek Invests in Cellular Ag Startup Manufacturing Leather without Animals | Cellular agriculture, the process of cultivating meat, eggs, and leather in cell culture rather than raising and slaughtering livestock, has attracted the attention of Singapore’s S$266 billion ($197 billion) sovereign wealth fund Temasek. ... |
| Jun 16, 2016 | Meat Without Cows? These Game-Changing Food Tech Startups Are Revolutionizing The Way We Eat | 7 Mins Read
Three years ago, Bill Gates famously stated that by 2050, global demand for meat will increase significantly as the world’s population balloons to more than nine billion people. This is not tenable: the livestock industry is res... |
| May 26, 2016 | Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat, and Hampton Creek Go to Market with Alternative Protein Products | Earlier this week, food tech entrepreneurs and investors gathered at the Future Food-Tech Summit in New York. A number of subsectors of the food tech space were represented during the event, but perhaps one of the hottest discussions was ov... |
| Feb 11, 2016 | Memphis Meats Closes Seed Round Oversubscribed on $2.75m, Expects Huge Demand for Cultured Meat | Memphis Meats, the startup growing meat in a laboratory, has closed its seed round oversubscribed on $2.75 million after attracting investment from accelerator venture capital firm SOSV, food-focused VC New Crop Capital and a group of angel... |
