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What happened to those GM spider goats with the silky milk?
September 2, 2019. Richard Martyn-Hemphill. This really was an extraordinarily wacky and perhaps controversially ‘Homo Deus’ news story — GM goats who had been transplanted with a spider’s silk-making genes to transform their milk into something much less drinkable and much more silky. Yet this was all years ago now.
ENOUGH sees "stunning interest" in mycoprotein from meat giants
Oct 11, 2024 · ENOUGH CEO on a ‘hard 12 months’ scaling up mycoprotein production, buoyed by ‘stunning interest’ from Big Meat. October 11, 2024. Elaine Watson. “Candidly,” admits ENOUGH CEO Jim Laird, scaling up mycoprotein production at the firm’s new plant in the Netherlands has been tough. “We’ve had a hard 12 months in terms of ...
Todd Robran, Author at AgFunderNews
Oct 31, 2024 · Todd Robran is the chief commercial officer at Growers Edge. Growers Edge provides modern financial products and data-driven tools that help forward-thinking agriculture retailers, manufacturers, and lenders promote the adoption of innovative solutions and practices by reducing growers’ risks and costs.
Ag insights platform Gro Intelligence is closing down
May 31, 2024 · Ag insights platform Gro Intelligence is calling it quits after failing to secure enough capital to stay afloat following a turbulent few months, AgFunderNews understands. The firm, which secured some eleventh hour funding in March as it laid off 60% of its staff, informed remaining staff this week that it would be closing down, with a skeleton crew kept on to wind things down, say sources ...
The Jackfruit Co raises $5m for minimally processed alt meat
Oct 8, 2024 · The JackFruit Company—owner of the Jack & Annie’s brand—has raised a $5 million series B extension to expand its jackfruit-based meat alternatives across retail, foodservice, and industrial ingredients.. The round, led by returning investors InvestEco, Creadev, and Grosvenor Food & AgTech, follows a $23 million series B announced in December 2021, and reflects the fact that the firm is ...
Foodtech investing: When will we emerge from the funding winter?
Oct 7, 2024 · Emerging from the bottom of the down cycle. Speaking to AgFunderNews at the sidelines of the event, Andrew Ive, founder and managing general partner at early-stage agrifoodtech investor Big Idea Ventures, said foodtech firms needed to keep calm and carry on during the current downcycle, and stressed that the same basic rules apply regardless of the funding environment.
Edison Agrosciences nabs funding to make rubber from sunflower
Jul 25, 2024 · US-based biomaterials developer Edison Agrosciences has raised $600,000 in seed financing to advance its work in developing sunflower crops for rubber production.; St. Louis, Missouri-based BioGenerator participated along with the Missouri Technology Corporation (MTC), Crisp & Company, LLC and others. Edison Agrosciences will use the funds to scale up operations of rubber production and ...
Liberation Labs bags $25m to fund Indiana biomanufacturing hub
November 30, 2023. Elaine Watson. Liberation Labs — a startup aiming to address capacity bottlenecks in biomanufacturing — has secured a $25 million government-backed loan to support its first commercial-scale precision fermentation facility in the US. The purpose-built site in Richmond, Indiana, will have 600,000 liters of capacity and is ...
Agrifintech Agrolend banks $53m Series C - agfundernews.com
October 18, 2024. Jennifer Marston. Agribusiness finance platform Agrolend has raised a $53 million Series C round, bringing its total funding to nearly $100 million. Impact investor Creation Investments and Syngenta Group Ventures led the round. New investors Vivo Ventures, L4, and Japan’s Norinchukin Bank also participated alongside current ...