Category: Biomanufacturing
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When Jake Berber started thinking seriously about the future of coffee, he wasn’t trying to convince people to stop drinking it. He was trying to figure out what happens when everyday coffee becomes too expensive for everyday consumers. That idea became the starting point for Prefer, the Singapore-based startup Berber cofounded in 2022 with his cofounder…
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This week at Future Food Tech, Marine Biologics will showcase its technology—a platform that digitally maps the biochemistry of seaweed and its properties – which the company claims has created what is the world’s first programmable biomass. According to the company, its proprietary cheminformatics platform, MacroLink, maps the molecular compositions of seaweed and stabilizes them…
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Today, One Bio, a startup that develops short-chain fiber food ingredients derived from plants, announced that it has raised a $27 million funding round led by Alpha Edison, alongside other investors including Leaps by Bayer and Mitsui E12 according to announcement sent to The Spoon. The company plans to use this funding to commercialize its…
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From connective tissue, skin health, lunchroom JELLO, and your inner ear to injections to create fuller lips, collagen is one of a body’s vital chameleons. Until now, the best way to introduce this protein to your everyday health is by eating animal products or substitutes such as Keratin and other amino acid supplements. Raleigh-based Jellatech…
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Enzymit Inc., a syn-bio production platform company, today announced the close of a $5 million seed round. The company is creating a new computational design platform based on what it terms ‘enzymatic manufacturing’, which it claims is superior to traditional biomanufacturing techniques utilizing fermentation. In biomanufacturing industries such as alternative protein, precision fermentation utilizes microbes…
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Yossi Quint wants the cultivated meat industry to succeed. However, to reach its potential, he thinks the nascent industry has one major hurdle to overcome: a severe lack of production capacity. Quint arrived at this conclusion while working at McKinsey, where he often worked on projects for clients in the food and beverage industry. During…
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According to CarbonBrief, coffee has a larger carbon footprint per kilogram than fish, poultry, or pork. At the farming stage, it’s one of the top seven agricultural drivers of global deforestation, according to the World Resources Institute. Then there are emissions associated with processing and transportation. And once coffee grounds end up in landfills, they…
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The Spoon has been following Brave Robot’s animal-free ice cream journey since The Urgent Company launched the dessert brand last year. Since then, the company has introduced ice creams in a range of flavors, from hazelnut chocolate chunk to blueberry pie. Last month, Brave Robot made its first foray out of the ice cream space…
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In 2018, the equivalent of about 3.5 million dumpster trucks’ worth of plastic waste was produced in the U.S. alone, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The COVID-19 pandemic has compounded the problem, driving increased demand for single-use plastic packaging and personal protective equipment. Advances in microbiology suggest that bacteria and fungi could someday help…
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According to the Good Food Institute, there are approximately 70+ companies working on cultivated meat services, inputs, and end products. At this time, Singapore has been the only country to offer regulatory approval for the commercial sale of cultivated meat, and Qatar is expected to be next to do so. Despite this, several companies in…
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Over the past 12 months, money has poured into cultivated meat startups as venture investors, celebrities, and governments look to get in on what many believe is the next big thing in alternative protein. However, as the excitement grows, some are taking a harder look at how to scale the production of lab-grown meat to…
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Honey is a$7 billion industry. While honeybees themselves are not in danger (at least today), the focus on honey production is problematic for the broader bee ecosystem since farmed honeybees compete with wild bees for food and ultimately hurt biodiversity. All of this is why a Serbian bee industry executive named Darko Mandich became fascinated with the…
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