Kynda Opens Industrial Fermentation Site to Scale Protein from Food Sidestreams
Kynda, a biotechnology company specializing in fermentation-based protein production, has opened a new research and production facility in Jelmstorf, Lower Saxony. The 720-square-meter site combines laboratory and production operations, with the aim of converting underutilized food processing sidestreams into fungal mycelium for use as protein. The facility includes 360 square meters of R&D space focused on process optimization and substrate adaptation, alongside a production area with 40,000 liters of fermentation …
Investment Climate Podcast: Vincent Kuiper of GOTA Ventures Shares How to Get Funded in 2026
In this podcast series, Alex Shandrovsky interviews investors about benchmarks for funding Alt Proteins in 2025 and uncovers the investment playbooks of successful Climate Tech CEOs and Leading VCs. Podcast Host Alex Shandrovksy is a strategic advisor to numerous global food tech accelerators and companies, including alternative proteins and cellular agriculture leaders. His focus is on investor relations and post-raise scale for agrifood tech companies. This podcast is syndicated through …
BeneMeat: “Cultivated Meat Doesn’t Need to Be Treated as Something Exotic”
Katharina Eist Holland brings a unique combination of commercial strategy, industry expertise, and academic insight to her role at BeneMeat. With a PhD in social science and senior experience across the alternative protein sector, she has helped global companies connect with ethical consumers and successfully bring innovative products to market. Her work is driven by a strong commitment to building a more sustainable food system. BeneMeat is a biotechnology company …
CREMER Launches FermBase, a New Brand Providing a One-Stop Shop for Fermentation Media
CREMER Group, a specialist in the trade, processing, and transport of raw and basic materials, has launched a new brand called FermBase to serve as a competence center and one-stop shop for fermentation media. FermBase aims to address key challenges in the next-generation and precision fermentation industries, including complex sourcing requirements, fragmented feedstock markets, raw material costs as a major driver of process costs, and limited scalability across the supply …
Analysis: Alternative Proteins Could Add €111B a Year to the EU’s Economy by 2040
A new analysis by systems change company Systemiq, supported by GFI Europe, has found that plant-based foods, cultivated meat, and fermentation could add €111 billion a year to the EU’s economy by 2040 if treated as a strategic priority. This is comparable to the GDP contribution of Europe’s wine sector. Furthermore, the industry could support 414,000 high-quality jobs in areas such as science, agriculture, and logistics, if given policy support …
YouTube Star MrBeast Visits UPSIDE Foods in New Video With Over 60M Views
MrBeast, a YouTuber with 464 million subscribers, recently paid a visit to California-based cultivated meat producer UPSIDE Foods. UPSIDE appears in a new MrBeast video titled “$1 vs $1,000,000,000 Futuristic Tech!” The video discusses various revolutionary new technologies, including cultivated meat, and has over 60 million views at the time of writing. Viewers can watch as Jimmy Donaldson, the creator behind MrBeast, tours UPSIDE Foods to learn how cultivated chicken …
Cell4Food Partners With Algocell to Optimize Its Cell Cultivation Process
Cell4Food, a Portuguese company producing cultivated marine foods, has announced a partnership with Algocell, which has developed an AI-powered bioprocess modeling platform. The partnership will integrate Cell4Food’s cell cultivation technology stack, BlueCell™, with Algocell’s AI-powered bioprocess modeling platform, Algocell P™. The aim is to accelerate Cell4Food’s process development and optimization. By integrating Algocell’s Digital Twin technology, Cell4Food hopes to complete and optimize a full cell cultivation process, creating an optimal …
Op Ed: Annina Winkler – Rethinking Food Production: The Emerging Promise of Cell Cultivation
Annina Winkler is Senior Investment Manager – AgriFood & Packaging at Emerald Technology Ventures. She is a sector specialist focusing on food, agriculture and sustainability. Within the sector, she performs sourcing, evaluation and due diligence of investment opportunities. She holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Sciences from ETH Zurich. In this op-ed, Annina explores how plant and animal cell cultivation technologies are reshaping the future of food production, highlighting their …
Revo Foods Applies 3D Structuring Tech to Cultivated Fish in Partnership with Atlantic Fish Co
Atlantic Fish Co and Revo Foods have entered a collaboration to develop hybrid seafood products that combine cultivated whitefish cells with mycoprotein-based structuring technology. The two companies are testing whether mycoprotein matrices can be used as a scalable platform to support cultivated cell integration for whole-cut seafood formats. Atlantic Fish Co, based in North Carolina, has developed proprietary whitefish cell lines and tissue engineering processes. Austrian startup Revo Foods contributes …
UPSIDE Foods Launches New Spinoff Lucius Labs to Commercialize Cell Culture Media
US cultivated meat company UPSIDE Foods has recently launched a spinoff called Lucius Labs. As first reported by AgFunderNews, the new company will create cell culture media for the life sciences industry. In a LinkedIn post, Bob Newman, Chief Scientific Officer at UPSIDE Foods, explained that the company had “developed deep expertise in cell culture media based on extensive work in cultivated meat”. Consequently, UPSIDE has decided to sell cell …