Cultivated Meat Company Believer Meats Ceases Operations
Cultivated meat producer Believer Meats has announced that it is ceasing operations after “two years of building something truly bold and special”. The news was shared on LinkedIn by Anne Schubert, Global Vice President of Talent & Human Resources at Believer Meats. She said the move had been a “difficult decision” and “not what any of us hoped for”, but did not reveal why the company was closing down. The …
Pow.Bio Partners With Bühler to Offer an Integrated Continuous Precision Fermentation Platform
Pow.Bio has announced that it is teaming up with Bühler Group to bring an integrated continuous precision fermentation platform to market. The collaboration will work to advance industrial biomanufacturing by accelerating process development, reducing unit production costs, and improving operation performance. Traditional fermentation processes rely on batch or fed-batch processes, which require the tank to be emptied and cleaned between runs. However, the new partnership combines advanced model-driven control software …
Oobli Launches GRAS-Certified Protein Sweetener to Combat Sugar Overconsumption
Oobli, a company based in Davis, California, has unveiled a new natural sweetener derived from proteins rather than carbohydrates. The product, which mimics the taste of sugar, is the first of its kind to receive GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) certification for commercial use. It offers a potential solution to the growing concerns over excessive sugar consumption and its associated health risks, such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Fighting …
UPSIDE Foods Returns to Court to Challenge Florida’s Cultivated Meat Ban
In August of last year, cultivated chicken producer UPSIDE Foods joined forces with the Institute for Justice to file a lawsuit against Florida’s cultivated meat ban. As reported by Courthouse News Service, UPSIDE claims that Florida cannot impose limits on interstate trade due to the US Constitution’s Commerce Clause. The company says only the federal government can regulate poultry products under the Poultry Products Inspection Act (PPIA). In April of …
EVERY Company Secures $55 Million to Scale Production of Animal-Free Egg Proteins
The EVERY Company has secured $55 million in a Series D funding round. This funding will support the company’s expansion into the US market as it scales up its production of precision-fermented egg proteins. The round was led by McWin Capital Partners, with participation from a range of investors including Main Sequence, Bloom8, and Minerva Foods. EVERY’s fermentation-based technology has gained significant attention as an alternative to traditional egg proteins. …
Seed Funding Round Nets Atlantic Fish Co. $1.2M for Whitefish Cultivation Tech
Atlantic Fish Co. (AFC) has closed a $1.2 million seed financing round. The investment was led by Katapult Ocean, Alwyn Capital, DMV Capital, and the Georgetown Angel Investment Network (GAIN), with additional participation from other mission-aligned investors. The company also received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), further contributing to the funding round. AFC’s total funding to date now stands at $2.3 million. …
Believer Meats’ Large-Scale Cultivated Meat Facility Cleared for Operation by USDA
Believer Meats has received approval from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for both its cultivated chicken product label and its large-scale production facility in Wilson, North Carolina. The authorization allows the company to begin commercial production and distribution of its cultivated poultry in the United States and for export. Final hurdle cleared This follows a previous clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which issued a “No …
Mission Barns Announces “World’s First” Retail Sale of Cultivated Meat in California
Cultivated pork producer Mission Barns has announced that its products will be sold at Berkeley Bowl, an independent grocery store in California, in a few days’ time. The company’s cultivated meat will be brought to consumers through a limited four-event tasting series called Bites from the Barn, which will be held once per month from November 2025 to February 2026. As part of the first event on November 1, Mission …
Symrise Invests in Cellibre’s Advanced Precision Fermentation Platform
Symrise, a global supplier of fragrances, flavorings, cosmetic active ingredients, and functional ingredients, has announced a strategic equity investment in US biotech company Cellibre. Through the partnership, Symrise will gain preferred access to Cellibre’s proprietary, precision fermentation-based technology. Together, the two companies will develop next-generation manufacturing technologies for globally important ingredients. This will enable Symrise to accelerate the commercialization of high-value natural flavor ingredients and cosmetic bioactives. The technology could …
GFI Acquires SCiFi Foods’ Cell Lines, Joins Tufts to Fast-Track Cultivated Meat Research
The Good Food Institute (GFI) has acquired crucial cell lines and growth media from SCiFi Foods, a cultivated meat company that ceased operations in mid-2024. In partnership with Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture (TUCCA), GFI plans to make these resources publicly available for academic and industry research, a move expected to reduce costs and speed up development in the cultivated meat sector. The acquisition includes specific bovine cell lines …