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| 18.07.2024 | The World’s Largest Mozzarella Producer Bags Global Rights for Fooditive’s Animal-Free Casein | 4 Mins Read US cheese giant Leprino Foods has signed an exclusive licensing agreement to commercialise the precision-fermented casein produced by Dutch startup Foodtive Group.
Leprino Foods, the world’s largest mozzarella manufacturer, has ... |
| 08.05.2024 | TurtleTree to Debut Animal-Free Lactoferrin with Espresso Shot for Endurance Athletes | 6 Mins Read Singaporean food tech startup TurtleTree has partnered with a nutrition brand to debut its precision-fermented lactoferrin as part of an espresso shot for endurance athletes.
Six months after obtaining self-affirmed GRAS (Genera... |
| 17.04.2024 | Price Parity, Job Creation & Investment: Highlights from GFI’s Alt-Protein State of the Industry Reports 2024 | 7 Mins Read Alternative protein think tank the Good Food Institute has released its annual State of the Industry series of reports, covering plant-based, cultivated and fermentation-derived proteins. Here are the key takeaways.
Political re... |
| 17.08.2022 | ADM teams up with New Culture to scale up animal-free dairy platform | An investor in New Culture and fellow animal-free dairy co Perfect Day (which makes whey protein via microbial fermentation and announced a joint development agreement with ADM in 2018) via its ADM Ventures arm, ADM said that its “product... |
| 18.05.2022 | BREAKING: Imagindairy raises $15m in seed extension, set to launch alt-milk products in 2023 | Imagindairy, an Israeli producer of animal-free milk proteins, has just raised an additional $15 million for its extended seed round.
The initial tranche in November 2021 brought in $13 million, taking the round’s total to $28 million.
Germ... |
| 27.04.2022 | A Pioneering Spirit Powers Kira Noodleman to Partner | I’m excited to formally announce that we have a new partner: Kira Noodleman. |
| 25.11.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Bioplastics firm RWDC raises $95m; funds for mammal-free milk | This week, Singapore-based bioplastics company RWDC raised nearly $100 million to advance its sustainable material for consumer packaged goods.
Meanwhile, two mammal-free milk startups scored sizeable rounds and a US-based indoor grower com... |
| 24.11.2021 | Laboratory meat, 3D printing & Co. – This is what we will eat in the future | From the field or stable to your own plate – this is the traditional way of producing food. However, this is supplemented bit by bit by new trends. And it has to. The world population is growing steadily and, combined with the consequences ... |
| 23.11.2021 | Hedge fund Alden Global wants to sink its teeth into another newspaper chain | 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.
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| 23.11.2021 | Hedge fund Alden Global wants to sink its teeth into another newspaper chain | 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.
Good morning. Fortune finance reporter Declan Harty back with you today.
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| 23.11.2021 | New Culture Raises $25M in Series A Funding | New Culture
New Culture, a San Leonardo, CA-based company maker of animal-free casein and animal-free mozzarella, raised $25M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Ahren Innovation Capital and CPT Capital with participation from new inv... |
| 23.11.2021 | ADM, Kraft & Dr Oetker back bovine-free mozzarella maker New Culture in $25m round | US alt-dairy startup New Culture has raised $25 million in Series A funding to bring its bovine-free mozzarella product to market.
Founded in 2018 by CEO Matt Gibson and chief scientific officer Inja Radman, New Culture is using precision f... |
| 23.11.2021 | BREAKING: ADM, Kraft & Dr Oetker back bovine-free mozzarella maker New Culture in $25m round | US alt-dairy startup New Culture has raised $25 million in Series A funding to bring its bovine-free mozzarella product to market.
Founded in 2018 by CEO Matt Gibson and chief scientific officer Inja Radman, New Culture is using precision f... |
| 22.11.2021 | New Culture lands $25 million to commercialize its cheesy, animal-free mozzarella | Led by sales of cheddar and mozzarella, the U.S. cheese market alone was valued at $34.3 billion in 2019, and is projected to reach $45.5 billion by 2027, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 5.25%, according to Allied Market Researc... |
| 22.11.2021 | New Culture raises $25m as 'animal-free dairy' space heats up | The funding was announced a week after General Mills dipped its toes in the animal-free dairy waters with the launch of cream cheese alternative Bold Cultr, which contains animal-free whey proteins from Perfect Day, and follows recent fun... |
| 22.11.2021 | New Culture Closes Oversubscribed $25M Round For “First Animal-Free Cheese to Stretch & Melt” | New Zealand-based animal-free cheese producer New Culture has raised $25 million in its Series A funding round. The oversubscribed round was led by Ahren Innovation and CPT Capital.
While there are countless vegan cheeses made with ingredie... |
| 17.11.2021 | Food for a Growing Planet: How Biomachines Will Win | When our portfolio company Future Fields set out to address the world’s reliance on animal protein as a food source, they intended to produce lab-grown chicken. After four months of intense experimentation, their only product was a chicken ... |
| 09.09.2021 | Got Milk? These 6 Microbial Biofermented Alt Dairy Startups Are Changing The Industry | 4 Mins Read
It’s official: conventional dairy is out, and alternative dairy is in. As consumers become increasingly concerned about the health, sustainability, and safety of traditional dairy products, more and more shoppers are turning to ... |
| 30.03.2021 | Plant-based dairy in focus: 'Cheese is the most technically challenging space in dairy alternatives...' | So how are consumer expectations in these categories evolving, and what formulation challenges do brands still need to address?
FoodNavigator-USA caught up with experts at Cargill and ADM, which both have a broad portfolio of proteins, text... |
| 27.12.2020 | Are We Ready To Make The Change To Lab-Produced Foods? | getty |
| 17.12.2020 | TurtleTree Labs raises $6.2m to support cell-cultured milk platform | The startup - which has offices in Singapore and San Francisco - will use the funds to accelerate research and production of functional, bioactive proteins and complex sugars found in human breastmilk.
HRH Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Tal... |
| 05.11.2020 | Don’t have a cow? Change Foods plans US launch of real dairy cheese made via microbial fermentation | While microbial fermentation can be deployed to make everything from collagen to CBD, Change Foods has homed in on cheese because most plant-based alternatives still can’t match the real thing when it comes to stretch and meltability bec... |
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| 30.09.2019 | From biz dev at Grubhub to Kraft Heinz’s VC arm, Steve Sanger is still selling hard | Evolv Ventures launched late last year as the venture arm of ketchup and mac-and-cheese behemoth Kraft Heinz with $100 million to invest in startups. It focuses on four main categories, foodtech – a broad category encompassing agtech, prote... |
| 23.09.2019 | New Culture Closes $3.5m Seed Funding for “Real Cow Cheese Without the Cow” | New Culture Mozzarella
New Culture is a startup based in San Francisco focused on creating making “real cow cheese without the cow” through a revolutionary use of the fermentation process to create casein, leading to a genuine dairy cheese ... |
| 16.09.2019 | New Culture Raises $3.5 Million To Disrupt The Dairy Industry | San Francisco based New Culture announced that it raised $3.5 million in a seed round of funding to disrupt the dairy industry
New Culture — a San Francisco based startup that is making animal-free dairy cheese — announced it has raised $3.... |
| 11.09.2019 | Kraft Heinz venture fund invests in startup making real cheese… without cows | Other investors include Bee Partners, Mayfield, CPT Capital, Boost VC and SOSV, which followed on after its initial pre-seed investment through IndieBio.
New Culture will remain in the San Francisco Bay Area as it looks to set up an R&D... |
| 10.09.2019 | New Culture Closes $3.5m Seed Funding | New Culture, a San Francisco, CA-based startup making animal-free dairy cheese, closed $3.5m seed funding round.
The round was led by Evolv Ventures with participation from Bee Partners, Mayfield, CPT Capital, Boost VC and SOSV.
The company... |
| 10.09.2019 | BRIEF: Kraft Heinz’s VC invests in New Culture $3.5m seed round for cell-grown cheese | San Francisco startup New Culture has closed a $3.5 million seed round after graduating from the IndieBio accelerator.
New Culture is making dairy cheese without animals instead using fermentation, the addition plant-based fats, sugars and ... |
| 24.06.2019 | ‘Real’ cheese… without cows? New Culture makes mozzarella with milk proteins via microbial fermentation | While the latest generation of plant-based meats are getting closer and closer to the real thing, plant-based cheeses don’t generally deliver the same taste, texture, functionality or nutrition as dairy cheese because they don’t contain cas... |
