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Innovation hub Generate announces winners of Generate Program

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Startups, Accelerators & Incubators

Nexture’s Innovation Hub Announces the Winning Startups of the Generate Program 2025

Generate, an innovation hub by Nexture that empowers next-generation ingredient development, has joined forces with URIKA Partners to select the three winning startups of the Generate Program 2025. The announcement was made at the dedicated event “The Ingredient Revolution: Meet the Innovators” at FI Europe 2025. This was attended by the founders of the selected startups, who discussed how emerging ingredient technologies such as cellular agriculture, Power-to-X technologies, and upcycling …

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Kokomodo partners with Coop Switzerland

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Kokomodo Partners With Coop Switzerland to Explore Integration of Cultivated Cacao Into Confectionery

Cultivated cacao producer Kokomodo has announced a partnership with the chocolate company Chocolats Halba, which is a division of Switzerland’s largest retailer and wholesaler, Coop. The collaboration will explore the integration of Kokomodo’s cacao into sustainable confectionery products, evaluating the functionality, sensory performance, and scalability of the ingredient in industrial settings. The partnership is facilitated by Kickstart Innovation, a platform that accelerates the market adoption of breakthrough technologies through startup-corporate …

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Investments & Finance

Pluri Secures $6.5 Million Investment and Acquires Majority Stake in Cell-Based Cacao Producer Kokomodo

Biotechnology firm Pluri Inc., a company specializing in cell-based technology, has announced a $6.5 million private investment led by global investor Alejandro Weinstein. As part of the transaction, Weinstein will join Pluri’s Board of Directors. Concurrently, the company is acquiring a 71% stake in Israeli AgTech firm Kokomodo Ltd., which focuses on cultivated cacao production, for $4.5 million in common shares. The proceeds from the investment will be used to …

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Plant Cell Cultivation

Kokomodo Creates Cultivated Cacao, Preserving Climate-Proof Supplies for the Future of Confectionery

Climate change poses a significant threat to the future supply of cacao (the unprocessed version of cocoa), with the majority of farmland predicted to become unfit for production by 2050. Recent severe weather events have negatively impacted cacao harvests in Ivory Coast and Ghana, the world’s biggest producers, causing significant shortages and high prices. But Kokomodo, a startup leveraging plant cell technology to “cultivate cocoa’s future” aims to ensure a stable, …

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