Cultivated Biosciences Rebrands to Cosaic, Introduces Unique Yeast-Based Ingredient
Cultivated Biosciences, a Swiss producer of yeast-based ingredient solutions, has announced that it is rebranding to Cosaic and launching a new product. The name is intended to evoke the word “mosaic”, bringing to mind the blending of several ingredients into one product. The rebrand comes as Cosaic, which was originally focused on pure fat alternatives, changes its approach to produce a more powerful ingredient. The company has just introduced Cosaic …
Investors Back Arsenale Bioyards with $10M to Scale AI-Driven Precision Fermentation
Arsenale Bioyards has raised $10 million in seed financing to support its efforts in reducing biomanufacturing costs and accelerating industrial-scale adoption of bio-based alternatives. The funding round was led by Planet A and byFounders, with additional participation from CDP Ventures, Acequia Capital, Plug and Play, Gray Silo Ventures, and several industrial family offices. The company focuses on optimizing precision fermentation, a process that utilizes microorganisms such as yeast or bacteria …
Ohly Unveils Yeast-Based Bionutrients to Boost Fermentation in Alternative Proteins
Ohly, a German supplier of yeast derivatives and culinary powders for the food, biotechnology, and human and animal health industries, has introduced a new range of yeast-based bionutrients for fermentation processes used in cultivated meat, protein, cheese, and dairy alternatives. The bionutrients are described as “powerful tools” that act as nitrogen sources to achieve high yields, titers, and enhanced productivity, resulting in lower cost-in-use and high batch outputs. They contain a …
Lallemand Invests in Enzyme Firm Livzym, Expanding Alternatives to Proteins, Chemicals & Sugar
Canada’s Lallemand Bio-Ingredients announces an equity investment through its Swiss affiliate, Danstar Ferment AG, in Livzym Biotechnologies, a Turkish company specializing in fungi-based enzymes for industrial use. With additional equity from Turkish investors, the funds will help finance the expansion of Livzym’s production plant in Tuzla, near Istanbul, to meet the increasing demand for sustainable enzymes across a wide range of industries, including food, textile, paper, animal feed, and biofuels. Lallemand …
Danish Yummowia Project Leverages Syn Bio to Transform Yeast into Mycoprotein Meat
Yummowia, a project spin-off from the Technical University of Denmark led by Professor Irina Borodina to develop an engineered mycoprotein meat alternative from yeast, has been accepted into the Bio Studio accelerator program of the BioInnovation Institute (BII) in Denmark. Backed by a maximum grant of €1 million per year for up to three years, BII will assist the project with business development expertise, intellectual property support, access to an …
Cultivated Palm Oil Has Potential to Reduce Dependency on Controversial Palm Oil Industry
Clean Food Group, a company developing cultivated palm oil alternatives made from yeast, is currently preparing for the commercialisation of its Clean Palm Oil planned for 2023 aiming to reduce dependency on the controversial palm industry. The development process began at the University of Bath, where Christopher Chuck, Professor of Bioprocess Engineering, has been working on a project using “unique fermentation processes to develop a palm oil substitute from lignocellulosic …