Deep Dive on Senara’s Cultivated Cow Milk Without the Cow: “The Opportunities Are Virtually Limitless”
Svenja Prosseda is CEO and joint founder of Senara GmbH, which has engineered the technology and is now producing cultivated cow milk. Its primary focus is on producing cow milk sustainably; using bioreactor technology to cultivate bio-identical milk, outside of the cow. This young company has already been recognised with a slew of accolades. Just this week Senara was shortlisted in the last 20 from around 5,500 competitors, by SLUSH …
Suzi Gerber, Executive Director, AMPS: “Ultimately, Cultivated Meat Could Benefit Individual Health, Society, and the Planet”
Suzannah (Suzi) Gerber is the Executive Director of AMPS Innovation and is a senior food, nutrition, and behavior research scientist and a well-known chef. In this Q&A, Ms Gerber explains how the legal challenge to Florida’s ban on cultivated meat hinges on the Commerce and Supremacy Clauses of the U.S. Constitution and obstructs the FDA and USDA’s jurisdiction over food safety. Furthermore, a ruling overturning the ban could set a …
Marinexcell: “Our Vision Is To Create a Sustainable and Reliable Source of Seafood Products”
Led by Professor Buganim, a globally renowned scientist in stem cell research, MarineXcell uses stem cells to cultivate shrimp, lobster, and crab meat. MarineXcell’s unique technology “addresses a significant bottleneck in the cultured seafood industry”, says the Israeli company: our methodology not only facilitates the creation of these cells but also ensures the sustained propagation and growth of iPSCs (induced pluripotent stem cells), even in sub-optimal conditions. What is MarineXcell’s …
Simple Planet: “It is a Way to Maintain Biodiversity Through Cell Culture and Reduce the Burden on the Earth”
South Korea’s leading cultivated meat company, Simple Planet, says it thrives on “leading the cell-based foods industry by reshaping food production platforms for the next generations”. Founded in 2022, the company has developed specialized cell lines from beef, pork, seafood, and chicken, and focuses on induced pluripotent stem cells “as an unlimited cell source for cell-based foods”. Simple Planet’s products include a high protein cultivated meat powder, animal fat paste, …
Bluu Seafood: “The Technology Behind Cellular Agriculture is Still Too Abstract for Many Consumers. We Have to Take People With Us”
Bluu Seafood specialises in cultured fish. Fish fingers, fish balls and caviar have already been produced from the cells of Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout. The startup emerged from the Lübeck-based Fraunhofer Research Institution for Marine Biotechnology and Cell Technology (EMB), where co-founder Dr Sebastian Rakers was also employed for many years. Together with entrepreneur Simon Fabich, the cell and marine biologist founded Bluu Seafood (then known as Bluu Biosciences). …
Kynda: “We Can Impress Even Sceptical Consumers with Our Product”
Earlier today, German biotech Kynda announced it has commenced construction of a large-scale facility for the production of its mycoprotein product, Kynda Meat. Founded by Daniel MacGowan von Holstein and Franziskus Schnabel, Kynda’s biomass fermentation platform uses industry waste side streams to grow a strain of fungus in bioreactors in 48 hours — a significant improvement over the industry standard of seven to ten days — and the process reportedly …
Dr Zoe Mayer of Germany’s Green Party: “The Bottom Line is That We Greens Want to Support and Shape the Development of Cell-Cultured Meat”
Dr Zoe Mayer was already politically active in her youth. She joined the Alliance 90/The Greens party at the age of 14. The Karlsruhe-born politician has been a member of the Bundestag (the German federal parliament) since 2021. Animal welfare and climate protection are particularly close to her heart. If parts of society’s meat requirements can be provided by cell-cultured products, she believes that animal husbandry can be reduced and …
revyve: “Our Animal-Free Ingredients Are All-Natural, Helping to Create the Delicious Food Experiences Consumers Crave”
revyve is a foodtech company that is unlocking the full potential of yeast, a timeless natural super ingredient, to produce high-performing texturizing ingredients. With sustainability as its norm, revyve is on a mission to reinvent the food industry with future-proof ingredients that deliver the delicious food experiences consumers crave. Clean-label revyve products mimic dairy and egg functionality in traditional and plant-based foods. “The secret to unlocking the perfect texture in …
Wanda Fish: “Our Mission is to Supply a Delicious and Healthy Product That Will Also Do Good to Our Planet”
Wanda Fish Technologies is an Israeli food-tech startup producing cultivated fish products. Less than three years after it was founded, the company has just announced the successful development of its first whole-cut cultivated bluefin tuna prototype, toro sashimi. This progress has partly been made possible by Wanda Fish’s collaboration with Tufts University, which began in 2022 with the aim of accelerating the development of cultivated fish. The startup also raised …
Investment Climate Podcast: Tim Fronzek of Nosh.bio Reveals the Secrets to Fundraising Success
In this new podcast series, co-produced by vegconomist, Alex Shandrovksy interviews investors about benchmarks for funding alt proteins in 2024 and uncovers the investment playbooks of successful Climate Tech CEOs and Leading VCs. Podcast Host Alex Shandrovksy is a strategic advisor to numerous global food tech accelerators and companies, including leaders in alternative proteins and cellular agriculture. His focus is on investor relations and post-raise scale for agrifood tech companies. …