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Change Foods, a startup best known at this point for making animal-free cheese via a fermentation process, has closed an oversubscribed Seed round of $2.1 million. Investors include Plug and Play Ventures, Clear Current Capital, Canaccord Genuity, Better Bite Ventures, Jeff Dean, and GERBER-RAUTH, among others. To date, Change Foods has raised $3.1 million in…
It’s been a banner year so far for cultured meat. In addition to all of the funding that’s been flowing into the space since the start of 2021, there is also a growing number of startups from around the world attacking the issues of creating cell-based meat in unique ways. The latest such startup to…
Back in 2016, Eric Schulze was working as an FDA regulator and happened upon a Reddit article discussing Memphis Meats’ cell-based meatball prototype. He was immediately fascinated with all the possibilities and challenges the company would encounter over the next few years. Schulze reached out to the company’s cofounder and CEO, Uma Valeti. Memphis Meats…
TurtleTree, a startup developing human breastmilk using cellular agriculture technology, has announced that its first commercially available product will be lactoferrin, a protein found in both animal and cow milk. Lactoferrin has long been viewed as a critical protein to both fight infection and to aid in brain development of young children, as well as…