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| 09.10.2024 | Umami Bioworks Heads to the Home of Fish & Chips, Seeking UK Regulatory Filing for Cultivated Seafood | 5 Mins Read Singaporean cultivated seafood producer Umami Bioworks has expanded operations to the UK, and is in talks with the country’s regulator as it maps a path to market.
Umami Bioworks’s international expansion rages on, with the cult... |
| 02.10.2024 | UMAMI Bioworks to Establish South Korea’s First Cultivated Seafood Facility Through Strategic Partnership | UMAMI Bioworks (previously Umami Meats) continues to expand its footprint across Asia to offer sustainable solutions to the growing demand for seafood products.
Today, the Singaporean company announces a strategic partnership with South Kor... |
| 23.08.2024 | The Rise of Precision Fermentation: De Novo Foodlabs and the Future of Lactoferrin | In the ever-evolving landscape of food technology, a new player is making waves. De Novo Foodlabs, a North Carolina-based startup, has secured $1.5 million in seed funding to accelerate the commercialization of its innovative product, NanoF... |
| 23.08.2024 | GFI Report Explores Funding Landscape for Alt Proteins, Highlighting Challenges & Solutions | A new report by the Good Food Institute (GFI) has outlined the current funding landscape for alternative protein companies looking to scale from pilot to commercial manufacturing.
Called Funding the Build, the guide describes how venture ca... |
| 21.08.2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Cheetos Goes Vegan, Plant-Based Lurpak & Sorghum Meat | 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 Lurpak’s plant-based butter, Cheetos’ limited-edition vegan r... |
| 20.08.2024 | De Novo Foodlabs Secures Funding from Industry-Backed VC for Precision-Fermented Lactoferrin Protein | 4 Mins Read Precision fermentation startup De Novo Foodlabs has raised $1.5M in funding for its NanoFerrin protein from Joyful Ventures, a VC firm backed by alternative protein leaders.
North Carolina-based De Novo Foodlabs, which is making... |
| 10.07.2024 | Cultivated Seafood Pioneer UMAMI Bioworks Sets Foot in India with IKP Partnership | Cultivated seafood startup UMAMI Bioworks, (previously Umami Meats) has announced a partnership with India’s premium Science Park and Incubator, IKP Knowledge Park, to accelerate the production of cultivated seafood.
IKP has recently establ... |
| 17.05.2024 | After a promising beginning, is Singapore's cultivated meat industry on the way to the slaughterhouse? | Listen to this article
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| 12.04.2024 | Bluu Seafood Opens Europe’s First Cultivated Seafood Facility, Eyes Singapore Launch in 2025 | 5 Mins Read German cultivated fish startup Bluu Seafood relocated to Hamburg with the opening of a large-scale pilot plant to produce its salmon and rainbow trout, ahead of an expected launch in Singapore early next year.
Bluu Seafood has o... |
| 14.03.2024 | Deals in brief: LaunchVic to fund specialized angel networks with new grants, OKX Ventures leads investment in UXLink, nine China and India deals, and more | LaunchVic introduces new grants to fund specialized angel investment networks
LaunchVic, the Victorian state government’s startup development agency, has introduced a new grant initiative aimed at bolstering specialized angel investment net... |
| 13.03.2024 | Deals in brief: Shiok Meats and Umami Bioworks pursue merger, Peak XV Partners to launch perpetual fund, eight China and India deals, and more | Singapore-based cultivated seafood startups Shiok Meats and Umami Bioworks pursue merger
Y Combinator-backed Shiok Meats is pursuing a merger with Umami Bioworks, another cultivated seafood startup based in Singapore, as first reported by G... |
| 12.03.2024 | Cultivated meat consolidation begins as UMAMI Bioworks to merge with Shiok Meats | Singapore-based cultivated seafood startups UMAMI Bioworks and Shiok Meats are in talks about a proposed merger in which UMAMI will acquire assets from Shiok to accelerate its scaleup plans and broaden its product pipeline.
The deal is like... |
| 12.03.2024 | Singaporean Cultivated Seafood Startups Umami Bioworks and Shiok Meats Announce Merger | 6 Mins Read In a major shift in the cultivated seafood space, Singaporean startups Umami Bioworks and Shiok Meats have announced plans to merge. Once finalised, Umami Bioworks CEO Mihir Pershad will lead the combined entity, and Shiok Meats... |
| 12.03.2024 | UMAMI Bioworks & Shiok Meats Merge to Commercialize Cultivated Seafood | Two cultivated seafood pioneers from Singapore — UMAMI Bioworks and Shiok Meats — have merged to establish a combined entity that will bring cultivated seafood closer to commercial viability.
The strategic merge, believed to be the first in... |
| 12.03.2024 | SG alt-meat makers Shiok Meats, Umami Bioworks set to merge | AcquisitionsGreentechNews
Jofie Yordan · 13 Mar 2024 · 2 min readSG alt-meat makers Shiok Meats, Umami Bioworks set to merge
A chili crab dish by Shiok Meats / Photo credit: Shiok Meats
Two Singapore-based cultivated seafood startups, Shiok... |
| 28.08.2023 | Our oceans are in a state of emergency. Aqua-Spark’s CEO explains how startups can help restore their health | Healthy oceans are critical to a healthy planet. But as the United Nations notes, the ocean is in a state of emergency thanks to pollution, overfishing, eutrophication and warming.
UN targets for Sustainable Development Goal 14 focus on pol... |
| 18.08.2022 | MIRAI FOODS gains access to the Singapore market | |
| 18.08.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Oatside secures $65m for Singapore’s first oat milk, input supplier iProcure scores $10m | Singapore’s first-ever oat milk brand Oatside made headlines this week with news of its sizable Series A round while iProduce landed funds to expand its input distribution tech across Africa. Fashion designer Stella McCartney is helping lau... |
| 27.07.2022 | Shiok Meats Partners With Conventional Shrimp Company for Cultivated Seafood R&D | Shiok Meats has partnered with Vietnamese conventional shrimp producer Minh Phu Seafood to open a cultivated seafood R&D facility.
The two companies have signed a MOU, committing to establishing a joint facility in Vietnam and carrying ... |
| 22.06.2022 | Stripe, LinkedIn execs back Entrepreneur First’s $158m raise | InvestmentsNewsStartups
Tay Tian Wen · 1d ago · 2 min readStripe, LinkedIn execs back Entrepreneur First’s $158m raise
Entrepreneur First (EF), a UK-based startup enabler, has raised US$158 million in an oversubscribed series C round and an... |
| 08.03.2022 | 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... |
| 07.03.2022 | QuickBytes: Breaking new ground with Sandhya Sriram, Shiok Meats’ group CEO | NewsProfilesQuickBytes
Stefanie Yeo · 11 Mar 2022 · 7 min readQuickBytes: Breaking new ground with Sandhya Sriram, Shiok Meats’ group CEO
As part of Tech in Asia’s 2022 International Women’s Day campaign “Break The Bias,” we conducted a sur... |
| 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... |
| 23.11.2021 | Shiok Opens Singapore’s First Cultivated Seafood R&D ‘Mini-Plant’ | 1
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Singapore food tech Shiok Meats has opened the doors to its “mini-plant”, the first-of-its-kind R&D facility dedicated to cultivated seafood in the city in a ceremony inaugurated by the city’s state environmental m... |
| 23.11.2021 | Shiok Meats Opens “First of a Kind” Mini-Plant For Cultivated Seafood R&D | Shiok Meats, the first company in the world to develop cultivated crustacean products, has officially opened a “mini-plant” at its headquarters in Singapore.
The plant will help the company’s R&D team with process optimization, technolo... |
| 09.11.2021 | Key takeaways from the SOSV Climate Tech Summit | Benjamin Joffe Contributor
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| 09.11.2021 | Seasoned Impact Investors Back Cultivated Seafood Pioneer Shiok Meats To Help Bring Novel Foods To Market | 3 Mins Read
Shiok Meats, the Singapore-based food tech developing cell-based crustaceans, has secured more funding for its bridge round. The oversubscribed round has welcomed support from two new investors, Cultured Seafood LLC and Yi Sung ... |
| 05.10.2021 | Over 95% In Hong Kong Want To Try Cell-Based Meat and Seafood: Study | 1
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More than 95% of people in Hong Kong are willing to try cell-based proteins, a new study has revealed. The research, conducted by Singapore food tech Shiok Meats, found food safety concerns were the biggest motivator a... |
| 04.09.2021 | Singapore Food Tech Event Showcases Alt-Protein Innovations and Serves Bento Box of The Future | 4 Mins Read
Singapore just hosted the Alternative Protein & FoodTech Show, organised by industry nonprofit KindEarth.Tech (KET), in collaboration with cell-based crustacean startup Shiok Meats and events company SciGlo. In addition to b... |
| 03.09.2021 | Shiok Meats Unveils World’s First Cell-Based Crab Meat | Shiok Meats, the cell-cultured crustacean meat pioneer, showcased the world’s first cell-based crab meat at a private tasting event in Singapore on 26th August.
In a collaboration with Chef José Luis Del Amo of TheTasteLab, Shiok Meats pres... |
| 28.08.2021 | World First: Cell-Based Crab Meat Unveiled At Shiok Meats Tasting | 857 1
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Diners joining Shiok Meats’ private testing event were treated to the world’s first-ever cell-based crab meat. Collaborating with Chef José Luis Del Amo, the Singapore food tech unveiled crab cakes and chilli cr... |
| 10.08.2021 | BREAKING: Cultivated crustacea pioneer Shiok Meats acquires Gaia Foods to expand into red meat | Singaporean alt-protein startup Shiok Meats has acquired local counterpart Gaia Foods in a deal which will see it expand beyond its existing portfolio of cell-cultured crustacean meat.
Financial details of the deal were not disclosed, thoug... |
| 10.08.2021 | Shiok Meats Acquires Gaia Foods, Southeast Asia’s First Cell-Cultured Red Meat Startup | Shiok Meats, the world’s first cell-cultured crustacean company, has fully acquired Gaia Foods. Founded in 2019, Gaia was the first company in Southeast Asia to develop cell-cultured red meat.
Its founders are two scientists, Dr. Vinayaka S... |
| 10.08.2021 | Cultivated crustacea pioneer Shiok Meats acquires Gaia Foods to expand into red meat | Singaporean alt-protein startup Shiok Meats has acquired local counterpart Gaia Foods in a deal which will see it expand beyond its existing portfolio of cell-cultured crustacean meat.
Financial details of the deal were not disclosed, thoug... |
| 21.07.2021 | Asian Food Giants Back Singapore Cell-Based Seafood Leader Shiok Meats in Bridge Round | 4 Mins Read
Shiok Meats, Singapore’s cell-based crustacean food tech, has just raised fresh funding in a bridge round. The round was led by Vietnam seafood major Vinh Hoan and South Korean food giants Woowa Brothers and CJ CheilJedang. Shio... |
| 21.07.2021 | Shiok Meats adds Asian food industry giants to cap table in latest funding round | Shiok Meats has closed a bridge financing involving several major food companies. While the cell-cultured seafood startup didn’t disclose how much it has raised, it said the round takes its total funding to date to $30 million.
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| 21.07.2021 | BREAKING: Shiok Meats adds Asian food industry giants to cap table in latest funding round | Shiok Meats has closed a bridge financing involving several major food companies. While the cell-cultured seafood startup didn’t disclose how much it has raised, it said the round takes its total funding to date to $30 million.
AFN estimate... |
| 25.06.2021 | Future Food 🎙️: Diving deep with Shiok Meats’ Sandhya Sriram on the future of cell-cultured seafood | The conversation around cultured meat is typically focused around cell-based beef and chicken – the proteins favored across much of the world, and high-income Western countries in particular.
However, given that most of the world’s populati... |
| 21.06.2021 | Brief: Singapore’s NTU launches ‘first alt-protein university course’ in Asia Pacific | Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has approved what it claims is “the first alternative protein university course to be offered anywhere in Asia Pacific.”
The undergraduate course — titled ‘Future Foods – Introduction to Ad... |
| 23.04.2021 | ADM opens plant-based innovation lab in Singapore | US agribusiness major ADM has unveiled a new innovation lab in Singapore targeting the growing appetite for plant-based foods in the Asia-Pacific market.
The lab, situated in the city-state’s Biopolis science park, will develop “next-level,... |
| 08.03.2021 | 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... |
| 02.03.2021 | Exclusive: Over 78% Singaporean Consumers Willing To Try Cell-Based Seafood, Survey Finds | 5 Mins Read
More than three-quarters of consumers in Singapore are open to trying cultured seafood, a recent survey finds, with the primary motivations being sustainability, curiosity in the novel protein, and health and food safety concern... |
| 25.02.2021 | Singapore-based Raena gets $9M Series A for its pivot to skincare and beauty-focused social commerce | Raena’s team, from left to right: chief operating officer Guo Xing Lim, chief executive officer Sreejita Deb and chief commercial officer Widelia Liu
Raena was founded in 2019 to create personal care brands with top social media influencers... |
| 26.01.2021 | Vietnam’s biggest fish exporter launches venture unit, invests in cultured seafood startup Avant | Vinh Hoan, one of the world’s largest exporters of fish, has made a strategic investment in cultured seafood startup Avant Meats.
The Vietnamese company will become a shareholder in Hong Kong-based Avant after agreeing to acquire Vinh Techn... |
| 22.01.2021 | BlueNalu sets sights on Asia after raising cultured seafood’s biggest round yet | San Diego-based BlueNalu just raised $60 million in a convertible note financing, which the startup claims is the biggest funding round yet in the ‘lab-grown’ seafood space.
Rage Capital led the funding, with a host of new and existing inve... |
| 24.12.2020 | 5 trends that shaped agrifoodtech in 2020 | 2020 has been a year like no other in living memory for the vast majority of us. The Covid-19 pandemic, which began in China at the tail end of last year and gradually engulfed to entire world by the second quarter of this one, has brought ... |
| 22.12.2020 | Elysabeth Alfano’s Top 10 Predictions for 2021 | Every week, Plant-based Business Expert Elysabeth Alfano breaks down the headlines with her review and analysis in the Plantbased Business Minute. In preparation for the New Year, today she brings us her top ten predictions for 2021.
Here a... |
| 20.12.2020 | Agrifoodtech firms are flocking to Singapore, with Perfect Day the latest to land | US alt-dairy startup Perfect Day revealed today that it will set up an R&D facility in Singapore, with the city-state’s minister for trade and industry predicting “many other companies” will be joining it to take advantage of the growin... |
| 11.12.2020 | Maw & more: Avant nets $3m funding to expand cultured seafood range | Hong Kong-based cultured meat startup Avant Meats, which grows ‘animal-free’ proteins from the cells of fish and other marine organisms for food, skincare, and other applications, has raised $3.1 million in seed funding.
Investors taking pa... |
| 11.12.2020 | Maw & more: Hong Kong’s Avant nets $3m funding to expand cultured seafood range | Hong Kong-based cultured meat startup Avant Meats, which grows ‘animal-free’ proteins from the cells of fish and other marine organisms for food, skincare, and other applications, has raised $3.1 million in seed funding.
Investors taking pa... |
| 02.12.2020 | Singapore grants world’s first regulatory approval for ‘lab-grown’ meat | San Francisco’s Eat Just, which is developing a range of plant-based and ‘lab-grown’ alternative proteins, has received the world’s first regulatory approval to sell meat cultured from animal cells to consumers.
The Singapore Food Agency (S... |
| 01.12.2020 | Barclays : TRENDE selected to join 11 leading edge companies focused on solving the world's greatest challenges at Unreasonable Impact Asia Pacific 2020 | TOKYO, Dec 1, 2020 - (JCN Newswire) - - TRENDE Inc., a renewable energy retailer in Japan, has been selected to join 11 other ground breaking growth stage ventures at the 2020 Unreasonable Impact Asia Pacific program.
With the global pandem... |
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Barclays : TRENDE selected to join 11 leading edge companies focused on solving the world's greatest challenges at Unreasonable Impact Asia Pacific 2020 | TOKYO, Dec 1, 2020 - (JCN Newswire) - - TRENDE Inc., a renewable energy retailer in Japan, has been selected to join 11 other ground breaking growth stage ventures at the 2020 Unreasonable Impact Asia Pacific program.
With the global pandem... |
| 23.11.2020 | Singapore’s Shiok Meats Debuts World’s First Cell-Based Lobster Meat Prototype | 114 1
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Shiok Meats has just unveiled the world’s first cell-based lobster meat. In an exclusive tasting event, the Singapore cultivated seafood food tech showcased its newly developed crustacean-free product in a range... |
| 27.10.2020 | The Most Exciting Alt Seafood Startups According To A Food Tech Investor | 12 3
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Editor’s Note: It’s the worst time in history for our oceans. They are filled with plastic, covered in dead zones caused by human pollution, dominated by hugely unethical fishing supply chains… Sealife doesn’t sta... |
| 23.10.2020 | Leaders Of Tomorrow: 2020 GEN T List Features 6 Asia Alt Protein Trailblazers For The First Time | 12 0
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Launched by Tatler Asia, the annual Generation T (Gen.T) list recognises 400 figures who are shaping the region’s future, from founders and entrepreneurs to tech gurus and creatives who are working to drive positi... |
| 04.10.2020 | Shiok Meats raises USD 12.6 million in Series A funding | Singapore: Shiok Meats, a leading cell-based crustacean meat company based in Singapore, has secured US$12.6 million in Series A funding round, led by Aqua-Spark, an investment fund focused on sustainable aquaculture.
The round also saw the... |
| 02.10.2020 | Shiok Meats Raises $12.6M in Series A Funding | Shiok Meats, a Singapore-based cell-based crustacean meat company, raised $12.6M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Aqua-Spark, an investment fund focused on sustainable aquaculture, with participation from SEEDS Capital (the investm... |
| 30.09.2020 | Aqua-Spark leads $12.6m Series A round for Singapore alt-seafood startup Shiok Meats | Singapore’s Shiok Meats has raised $12.6 million in a Series A round led by Aqua-Spark, a Netherlands-based VC firm focused on sustainable aquaculture.
The alt-protein startup is culturing ‘lab-grown’ prawn, crab, and lobster meat from isol... |
| 29.09.2020 | Cell-based meat startup Shiok Meats bags USD 12.6 million in Series A round | Southeast Asia’s first cell-based meat company Shiok Meats announced that it raised USD 12.6 million in its Series A round led by Aqua-Spark, an investment fund focusing on sustainable aquaculture. Other investors include Singapore-based SE... |
| 29.09.2020 | Shiok Meats Secures $12.6 M Series A, Will be the First in the World to Commercially Launch Cultivated Shrimp | ©Shiok Meats
Shiok Meats, the world’s first cell-based crustacean meat company, announces this hour that it has raised $12.6M in Series A funding, bringing the it closer in its mission to disrupt the seafood industry, according to an announ... |
| 29.09.2020 | Shiok Meats Secures $12.6 M Series A, Will be the First in the World to Commercially Launch Cultivated Shrimp | Shiok Meats, the world’s first cell-based crustacean meat company, announces this hour that it has raised $12.6M in Series A funding, bringing the it closer in its mission to disrupt the seafood industry, according to an announcement sent t... |
| 29.09.2020 | Shiok Meat Bags $12.6M Series A Funding For Pilot Plant, Now SE Asia’s Most Valuable Cell-Based Startup | 48 1
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Singapore-based cultivated shrimp startup Shiok Meats has just announced the closing of a US$12.6 million Series A funding round. The food tech says that the capital will go towards building the first commercial p... |
| 30.07.2020 | Clarification for Earlier Article on Cultivated Bacon and More on Cultivated Meat Market | In an earlier article about Higher Steaks, a leading UK food tech company, we said the company had revealed “the world’s first cultivated bacon and pork belly”. We have since been contacted by Mission Barns, another food technology company,... |
| 08.07.2020 | IntegriCulture and Shiok Meats partner to ramp up cell-based seafood production | Two of Asia’s highest-funded alt-protein startups have joined forces to bring cell-based seafood to the masses.
Japan’s IntegriCulture and Singapore’s Shiok Meats have signed a collaboration agreement which will see them scale up production... |
| 06.07.2020 | BREAKING NEWS: IntegriCulture Inc Collaborates With Shiok Meats to Upscale Cell-Based Shrimp & Reduce Costs | Shiok Meats’ cell-grown “shrimp“ dumplings. CREDIT Shiok Meats.jpg
It has been revealed to vegconomist that IntegriCulture Inc. and Shiok Meats Ltd have officially entered into a collaboration to upscale Shiok Meat’s cell-based shrimp utili... |
| 06.07.2020 | Singapore led ASEAN with $177m funding for agrifoodtech startups last year | With a heavily urbanized, densely populated land area of just a few hundred square kilometers, Singapore doesn’t have much in the way of traditional agriculture. Nevertheless, as Southeast Asia’s foremost financial, technological, and comme... |
| 06.07.2020 | BREAKING NEWS: IntegriCulture Inc Collaborates With Shiok Meats to Upscale Cell-Based Shrimp & Reduce Costs | It has been revealed to vegconomist that IntegriCulture Inc. and Shiok Meats Ltd have officially entered into a collaboration to upscale Shiok Meat’s cell-based shrimp utilising IntegriCulture’s inexpensive cell culture technology which wil... |
| 01.07.2020 | Southeast Asia’s food innovation scene bloomed last year with Shiok Meats, Alchemy Foodtech among top funded | Shiok Meats recently secured $3 million in bridge funding as it prepares to begin raising its Series A round, co-founder and CEO Sandhya Sriram told AFN.
The funding comes as new research from AgFunder identified ‘Innovative Foods’ as one o... |
| 30.06.2020 | Southeast Asia’s ag, food startups raised $423m last year: ASEAN Agrifoodtech Investment Report 2020 | AgFunder has just released the ASEAN Agrifoodtech Investment Report 2020, its first-ever analysis of agtech and foodtech startup funding in Southeast Asia.
The report can be downloaded here.
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| 25.06.2020 | Singapore’s Shiok Meats Secures $3M Bridge Funding Ahead of Series A Round | Singapore’s Shiok Meats has raised US$3 million in bridge funding from Agronomics, VegInvest, Impact Venture, and Mindshift Capital Fund in the UAE. This latest funding marks a total of US$7.6 million of investment to date for the producer ... |
| 25.06.2020 | Shiok Meats raises $3m in bridge funding to set up first manufacturing plant in Singapore | Premium
Singapore-based alternative proteins startup Shiok Meats has raised $3 million in a bridge financing round, led by Agronomics, a UK-based alternative meat investor; VegInvest, a US-based slaughter-free investment firm; Impact Ventur... |
| 25.06.2020 | Singapore’s Shiok Meats Secures $3M Bridge Funding Ahead of Series A Round | Female founded Shiok Meats
Singapore’s Shiok Meats has raised US$3 million in bridge funding from Agronomics, VegInvest, Impact Venture, and Mindshift Capital Fund in the UAE. This latest funding marks a total of US$7.6 million of investmen... |
| 24.06.2020 | BREAKING: Singapore Cultivated Seafood Startup Shiok Meats Secures US$3M Bridge Funding | 29 1
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Singapore-based food tech startup Shiok Meats has just announced that it has raised US$3 million in a bridge funding round ahead of its Series A. The company plans to use the new funds to set up its first manufact... |
| 15.06.2020 | Plant-Based Egg Startup Evo Foods Receives Capital from VegInvest and Shiok Meats CEO | ©EVO Foods
The Indian plant-based egg startup Evo Foods has announced two new investments. The capital comes from VegInvest, a vegan investment firm, and angel investor Dr. Sandhya Sriram.
Dr. Sriram is CEO and co-founder of cultivated shri... |
| 15.06.2020 | Plant-Based Egg Startup Evo Foods Receives Capital from VegInvest and Shiok Meats CEO | The Indian plant-based egg startup Evo Foods has announced two new investments. The capital comes from VegInvest, a vegan investment firm, and angel investor Dr. Sandhya Sriram.
Dr. Sriram is CEO and co-founder of cultivated shrimp company ... |
| 12.06.2020 | VegInvest & Shiok Meats Co-Founder Sandhya Sriram Invest In Evo Foods | 1
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India’s first plant-based egg startup Evo Foods has just announced new investment from vegan investment fund VegInvest and the co-founder and CEO of Shiok Meats, Dr. Sandhya Sriram. The news comes after the food tech w... |
| 01.04.2020 | Fish Today Contains 283 Times More Parasites Than 40 Years Ago | 64 2
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A new meta-analysis study by a research team at the University of Washington has revealed that fish now contains 283 times more parasitic worms than in the 1980s – which is ingested by humans when consuming raw, s... |
| 23.03.2020 | Shiok Meats Named as Fast Company Most Innovative Companies in Asia-Pac | Fast Company has named Singapore’s Shiok Meats as one of the top ten most innovative companies in Asia Pacific. The startup, which aims to disrupt the $40 billion shrimp market, last year secured $4.6 million in seed funding for its develop... |
| 12.12.2019 | First French Cultivated Food Startup GOURMEY Makes Lab Grown Foie Gras From Duck Egg Cells | 2
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Founded just this year in Paris and currently participating in Singapore-based foodtech accelerator Big Idea Ventures, GOURMEY is the first French cultivated meat startup and the latest to break the food tech industry... |
| 25.11.2019 | TurtleTree Labs: Singapore Lab-Grown Dairy Startup Produces Milk Without The Cows | 1
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Singapore-based biotech startup TurtleTree Labs is developing dairy milk in laboratory settings, which will come at a fraction of the environmental footprint when compared to conventional dairy milk. By producing lab-g... |
| 25.09.2019 | Lab-Grown Food To Drive Collapse Of Beef & Dairy Industry By 2030 Says New Report | 1
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A new report conducted by independent think tank RethinkX concludes that the beef and dairy industries are in a “death spiral” and will collapse by 2030, predicting that the bold disruption will be driven by new food t... |
| 20.09.2019 | BRIEF: WorldFish and IFPRI size up the Future of Fish | The weight of the global fishing industry is taxing our oceans, spurring a flurry of startups to come up with solutions to build a future of seafood, without the sea. Quorn-backed Shiok Meats is working on cultivating shrimp meat in a lab i... |
| 25.07.2019 | Singapore Promotes Agricultural Innovation with Ambitious Plan for Self-Sufficiency in Food Production | With an agenda first presented in March 2019, the Singaporean government is taking numerous measures in the agribusiness sector to free itself from its dependence on imports and be able to provide its population with an adequate amount of s... |
| 23.07.2019 | Clean Meat Startups: 10 Lab-Grown Meat Producers to Watch | 162 shares
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Clean meat is one of the hottest areas of startup innovation right now—and for good reason. Conventional meat is extremely water- and resource-intensive, is one of the major causes of deforestation a... |
| 07.07.2019 | Fish replacement may be the next big wave in alternative protein development | Brian Kateman Contributor
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| 30.04.2019 | Singapore-based Shiok Meats raises $4.6m seed funding to produce cell-based shrimp | Premium
Shiok Meats has completed a $4.6 million seed funding round to carry out research on cell-based shrimps and target mass production in the next couple of years, according to a Forbes report.
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| 20.03.2019 | The Demand Is There: Study Shows Asian Consumers Welcome Lab-Grown & Plant-Based Meat Alternatives | 19
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A recent survey revealed clean meat and plant-based meat alternatives have become more globally accepted, especially in the Asian market. This could mean new opportunities for Silicon Valley food-tech start-ups, but... |
| 15.03.2019 | Meet 23 Companies from the YC W19 Batch Part 5 | Meet 23 companies that recently announced they’re part of the YC Winter 2019 batch. To see more YC W19 companies read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.
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