In what may be the first sale of cultured meat in the United States, Upside Foods introduced its whole-grain texture product at chef Dominique Crenn's Bar Crenn restaurant in San Francisco. This comes just a week after getting approval to sell its cell-grown chicken product in the United States.
Upside farmed chicken is fried in a tempura batter, drizzled with a burnt chili aioli, and garnished with edible flowers and greens. By the way, this is the first time Bar Crenn has included meat on its menu since it was removed in 2018, according to the company. The farmed chicken will be incorporated into additional dishes at the restaurant through a series of ongoing monthly services beginning later this year.
On the other hand, Blue Seafood secures $17,5 million to bring farmed fish products to market
The new round of financing Serie A for Bluu Seafood was 16 million euros (17,5 million dollars). The German company is creating farmed fish products and presented its first products last August, which included a line of fish sticks and fish balls.
Joyful Ventures debuts with $23 million focused on investment in sustainable protein startups
Thriving startups in the alternative protein space now have a new option for their launch. The signature of venture capital Joyful Ventures presented its new fund, was co-founded by Jennifer Stojkovic, Milo Runkle and Blaine Vess, and the company has already made two investments from the fund, including New School Foods y Orbillion Bio.
omeat emerges from stealth with a robust technological approach to cultured meat culture media
Omeat, a Los Angeles cultured meat startup, believes it has figured out how to cut traditionally high costs to increase production of cultured meat through a process that uses regenerative factors extracted humanly from cow plasma to create culture media.
The new mass of BetterBrand Raises company's valuation to more than $170 million
BetterBrand, a food technology company known for creating "The Better Bagel» (best bagel), closed with $6 million of Series A equity at a pre-money valuation of $170 million. BetterBrand's patented "grit shift" technology combines clean label and non-GMO ingredients to create a better-for-you line of baked goods.
Make way for a new vegan protein on the menu, with the Finnish startup's alternative Solar Foods, Solein, which has been mixed into a custom (vegan) chocolate ice cream at a Singapore restaurant.
Time to make the meat
Intensive research is being done on the additional capacity for the precision fermentation, which is a method that uses bioreactors to produce cultured meat, which is what is really needed to move the industry forward and reduce costs.
Liberation Labs is investing heavily in it. The company exceeded the limits at its first facility in Indiana which, when fully operational, will have the capacity to produce up to 600.000 liters of biobased protein.
Impossible vs Motif
A lawsuit was filed last year. Impossible Foods y Motif Foodworks. became interesting when it was discovered that Motif sensed that Impossible hired some private investigators who allegedly used false identities to obtain information about their products.
Ultimately, a court ruled that this Impossible strategy did not violate any rules, according to the decision of said court.
While that was a plus point for Impossible, the newest thing to come out is a plus point for Motif: The US Patent and Trademark Office Board of Patent Trials and Appeals agreed to rcheck Impossible's intellectual property related to the use of heme to create plant-based meat substitutes.
