Investment Climate Podcast: Jonas von den Driesch of SHIFT Invest Shares How to Get Funded in 2026
In this podcast series, Alex Shandrovsky interviews investors about benchmarks for funding Alt Proteins in 2026 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 …
EU Opens Public Consultation on Biotech Act II, Targeting Industrial Fermentation and Biomanufacturing
The European Commission’s call for evidence on its proposed Biotech Act II has drawn responses from across the alternative protein and industrial biotech sectors, with companies urging clearer regulatory pathways for fermentation-derived ingredients, cultivated biomass, and precision fermentation ahead of the June 10 deadline. The regulation, expected as a legislative proposal in Q4 2026, would extend the EU’s biotech framework beyond health biotechnology to cover industrial biotechnology and biomanufacturing. The …
StrainX Bioworks Raises $13M to Scale Precision Fermentation Food Ingredients in India
Indian synthetic biology company StrainX Bioworks has raised $13 million as it exits stealth and moves into commercialization, with plans to supply high-value food and nutritional ingredients to global markets through precision fermentation. The round was led by Prime Venture Partners and Leo Capital, with participation from Good Startup, Sparrow Capital, Sun Icon Ventures, Dholakia Ventures, and WindT (IIT Delhi) Angels. Good Startup, a fund focused exclusively on biology-first deep-tech …
MyriaMeat Cultivates Roe Deer Muscle Cells, Extending Its iPSC Platform Beyond Pork
Munich-based cultivated meat startup MyriaMeat has established a pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) line from roe deer and successfully produced functional roe deer muscle cells using its patented differentiation protocol, the company announced this week. Expanding the species range The result is the first time MyriaMeat has applied its iPSC platform to a wild game species. The company, founded in 2022 as a University of Göttingen spin-off, had previously focused its …
Swedish Biotech and AI Firm Join Forces to Drive Down Precision Fermentation Costs
Two Swedish companies, biotech firm Curve (formerly Re:meat AB) and software company Digital Tvilling AB, have announced a partnership to develop an integrated biomanufacturing platform that uses AI and digital twin technology to reduce the cost of precision fermentation over time. The collaboration targets one of the core obstacles in alternative protein and ingredient production: unit economics. Precision fermentation holds considerable promise for producing proteins, functional food ingredients, and additives …
Germany Backs Alternative Proteins in National Biotech Roadmap, Plans Innovation Hub by 2027
Germany’s federal government has formally included alternative proteins in its High-Tech Agenda, with a biotechnology roadmap released by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space setting out concrete milestones for cultivated foods and precision fermentation through to 2032. The roadmap calls for the establishment of a national innovation hub for cell cultivation and precision fermentation by 2027, intended to consolidate research activities that have until now been spread across …
Biospringer Adds Bacterial Fermentation Capabilities with PTX Food Corp IP Deal
Biospringer by Lesaffre has acquired selected intellectual property and technology from PTX Food Corp, a US-based food ingredient manufacturer focused on bacteria fermentation. The deal extends Biospringer’s capabilities beyond its established yeast fermentation portfolio into non-yeast fermented solutions. The acquisition includes selected assets related to PTX Food Corp’s Bioenhance product line. Biospringer plans to transfer the acquired technology and equipment into its existing global plant network. “At Biospringer, we are …
Mosa Meat Joins APAC-SCA to Deepen Asia-Pacific Regulatory and Industry Ties
Netherlands-based cultivated beef company Mosa Meat has joined the Asia-Pacific Society for Cellular Agriculture (APAC-SCA), adding one of the sector’s longest-standing players to a regional body that connects startups, researchers, investors, and policymakers across the APAC region. Mosa Meat CEO Maarten Bosch noted, “Joining the APAC Society for Cellular Agriculture is an exciting milestone for Mosa Meat as we deepen our engagement with international markets. The Asia-Pacific region is a …
Tate & Lyle Expands BioHarvest Deal to Develop Plant Cell-Cultivated Sweetener Range
Ingredient solutions company Tate & Lyle and Canadian biotech firm BioHarvest Sciences have expanded their joint development program to cover a broader range of plant-based sweetener molecules, building on an initial agreement signed in 2024. The enlarged program draws on BioHarvest’s Botanical Synthesis platform, a non-GMO industrial plant cell culture technology that produces plant-derived compounds without cultivating the whole plant, reducing dependence on conventional agricultural extraction for botanicals that are …
Big Idea Ventures Backs Five Startups Targeting Cost and Scalability in Food Biotech
New York-based foodtech investor Big Idea Ventures has announced 5 new additions to its Global Food Innovation Fund II (GFIF II), with the latest cohort spanning fermentation, plant cell biomanufacturing, cold chain stabilization, bioactive delivery, and enzyme-based extraction. The five companies come from four countries: Argentina, France, Mexico, and the United States, and each receives a $200,000 investment package alongside access to the fund’s accelerator network of mentors, R&D resources, …