Elaine Watson
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Plantible Foods raises $30m Series B to scale duckweed protein, deliver on ‘multi-million dollar offtake agreements’
Plantible— a start-up removing RuBisCO (‘ Rubi healthy protein’), a highly-functional healthy protein from fast-growing aquatic plant lemna ( duckweed)– has…
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A ‘glimpse into the future’ of insect ag? Agroloop partners with FreezeM to open BSFL farm with fully outsourced breeding
Hungarian insect farmer Agroloop is getting ready to open up a first-of-its-kind EUR20 million ($ 21.2 million) insect ranch with totally contracted out reproduction, giving a R…
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Trump’s tariffs won’t help US agrifood industry, says ex-Congressman Charlie Dent: ‘There are no winners’
Trump’s proposed tariffs—and the trade war that they could trigger—will be an unmitigated disaster for US consumers and agrifood companies alike, predicts former Congressman Charli…
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Shiru raises $16m series B to expand AI-powered ingredient discovery platform
Shiru, a start-up releasing expert system to help in healthy protein exploration, has actually shut a $16 million collection B round led by S2G Ventures. The round, which was likew…
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Exclusive: Aspire Food Group cuts staff, temporarily scales back production at cricket farm
Insect ag leader Aspire Food Group has actually given up 100 of its 150 workers and is briefly downsizing manufacturing at its brand-new cricket farming facility in London, Ontario…
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Fats from fermentation: Nourish Ingredients and CABIO Biotech announce strategic biomanufacturing partnership
Nourish Ingredients, an Australian start-up developing unique fats by means of fermentation, has actually struck a manage Chinese biomanufacturing carbon monoxide CABIO Biotech in …
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Sea Forest strikes deal to bring livestock methane-busting seaweed supplements to East Africa
Tasmania-based Sea Forest—one of a flurry of startups producing feed supplements from Asparagopsis seaweed to curb livestock methane emissions—has teamed up with Uganda-based agtec…
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Beyond Meat returns to growth, plans to boost the balance sheet before year end
Beyond Meat went back to development in the third quarter, publishing a 7.6% year-over-year surge in web sales to $81 million driven by reduced profession discount rates and target…
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Worms to wealth? Loopworm scales up insect protein plant, plans recombinant proteins from silkworms
Loopworm, a start-up increase manufacturing at a center in Bangalore efficient in creating 6,000 lots of insect healthy protein dish a year, is currently operating in parallel on a…
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How would Trump’s tariffs impact large food & beverage firms? And what about USCMA?
As the Consumer Brands Association kept in mind in a recent call with AgFunderNews, covering tolls on items entering into the United States– a vital column of Donald Trump…
