UMAMI Bioworks Signs MoU With Nippon Barrier Free to Bring Cultivated Marine Ingredients to Cosmetics & Supplement Market
Singaporean cultivated seafood producer UMAMI Bioworks has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Nippon Barrier Free, a Japanese company specializing in salmon-derived functional ingredients. Through the partnership, the two companies will work to bring cultivated marine ingredients to the cosmetics and supplements market. Nippon Barrier Free will serve as UMAMI Bioworks’ sales and distribution partner for cosmetic and supplement ingredients across Japan and 18 other countries. UMAMI Bioworks claims …
Mosa Meat Raises €15M to Support Regulatory Filings and Restaurant-Ready Pricing
Cultivated beef developer Mosa Meat has secured an additional €15 million in funding, bringing its total raised over the past two years to €58 million. The company also reports a dramatic cost reduction in its production process, with cultivated beef burgers now priced for commercial foodservice markets, a substantial decrease from the €250,000 prototype first introduced in 2013. The latest round includes investments from Dutch state-backed Invest-NL, German poultry producer …
FoodNavigator Reveals Top 30 Food-Tech Innovators of 2025
FoodNavigator has released its list of the 30 most innovative food-tech companies, selected from 78 entries in its 2025 Global Food Tech Awards. The selection reflects a strong focus on technological responses to challenges such as supply chain instability, nutritional deficits, resource scarcity, and environmental degradation. Fermentation and artificial intelligence dominated the field, alongside a growing emphasis on bioactive functionality in ingredients. The awards examined companies across three regions—EMEA, the …
The Protein Brewery: “We’re the First Novel Fungal Biomass Mycoprotein Ever to Receive a Positive EFSA Opinion”
Thijs Bosch is the CEO of The Protein Brewery, a Dutch scale-up pioneering sustainable food ingredients made from mycelium. Appointed in June 2025, he brings over 15 years of leadership experience in the B2B food ingredients and protein sectors, including senior roles at Cosun and Fonterra. Thijs is now leading the commercialization of Fermotein, The Protein Brewery’s minimally processed, nutrient-dense, mycelium-based ingredient designed for active nutrition and healthy aging. In …
Onego Bio Launches Series Showcasing the Potential of Its Microbial Platform
Onego Bio, a company producing animal-free egg protein via precision fermentation, has announced the launch of an expert series called The Power of Trichoderma reesei: Building the Future with Fungi. The series aims to showcase the potential of Trichoderma reesei, the microbial platform behind Onego Bio’s Bioalbumen® egg protein. It will illustrate the platform’s scientific strengths, industrial scale, and practical performance across food manufacturing. The first session is titled “Why …
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 …
Studies Say Significant Proportion of Consumers Would Consider Cultivated or Plant-Based Diets for Pets
Two studies co-led by Griffith University Adjunct Professor Andrew Knight and published in the journal Animals have examined consumer attitudes to sustainable diets for pets. The first study surveyed 2,639 dog guardians worldwide, finding that around 84% of them currently feed their pets a conventional or raw meat-based diet. However, 43% of this group said they would consider at least one type of more sustainable dog food, such as vegan, …
Solar Foods to Test Innovative Protein Production Technology in Space
Solar Foods has entered into a partnership with OHB System AG, a European space technology company, to develop a pilot project for testing its Solein® gas fermentation technology in space. The project, supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) under its Terrae Novae Exploration Programme, focuses on adapting the Solein production system for microgravity environments, such as the International Space Station (ISS). The project, named HOBI-WAN (Hydrogen Oxidizing Bacteria In …
Pluri Enters Strategic International Collaborations That Could Expand Its Market Presence in Cultivated Meat, Cacao & Coffee
Pluri, a biotech company that has created a proprietary platform for cell‑based solutions, has entered a series of strategic international collaborations through its foodtech and agtech subsidiaries. The partnerships will advance Pluri’s mission to transform food and agriculture production through 3D cell-expansion technology and scalable innovations. Ever After Foods, Pluri’s cultivated meat subsidiary, is now executing several programs with food and cultivated meat companies across Asia and the US. The …
Fork & Good Consolidates Cultivated Beef and Pork Production with Orbillion Acquisition
Cultivated meat company Fork & Good has acquired Orbillion Bio, consolidating operations focused on pork and beef cell cultivation. The combined company will operate across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, with production continuing at Fork & Good’s pilot plant in Jersey City and Orbillion’s UAE-based subsidiary. Pork and beef tech combined The acquisition brings together two technology stacks: Fork & Good has developed a system for cultivating …