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The Better Meat Co rebrands as BMC Ingredients to highlight expanded applications for mycelium solution
The Better Meat Co has announced that it will rebrand itself as BMC Ingredients, a new trade name reflecting the broader food applications for its Rhiza mycelium ingredient.
Brainr secures additional €1.5m from Portugal Ventures to support international expansion
Brainr has secured a €1.5 million investment from Portugal Ventures, extending its seed funding round as the company looks to scale its AI-powered operating system for meat processors across international markets.
Food security redefines the future of food production
Jim Mellon, investor and executive chairman of Agronomics, explores how precision fermentation, cell cultivation and gene-editing could help strengthen food security and build a more resilient production system.
GEA invests €4m in relocation of German food and biotech facility
GEA has opened a new €4 million Application and Technology Center (ATC) in Sarstedt, Germany
The Protein Brewery closes €18m Series B extension following landmark EU novel food approval
Dutch food-tech company The Protein Brewery has announced an €18 million extension of its Series B funding round, led by ABN AMRO Sustainable Impact Fund.
Food System Innovations launches AI-focused Food Intelligence Lab to accelerate sustainable protein R&D
Food System Innovations (FSI) has launched the Food Intelligence Lab, a new interdisciplinary initiative designed to build the AI infrastructure needed to accelerate research and development across the sustainable protein sector. Backed by a $2 million grant from the Bezos Earth Fund awarded last year, the lab will develop open-source datasets, machine learning models and benchmarking tools that aim to shorten product development timelines and improve the sensory performance of plant-based...
Brevel expands into plant cell culture with coffee cell-culture partnership
Brevel is extending its illuminated fermentation technology into the plant cell culture sector through a new collaboration with coffee cell-culture specialist Coffeesai.
Rainbow Crops raises €9.7m to expand crop genome-editing platform
Belgian agri-tech company Rainbow Crops has raised €9.7 million in an over-subscribed seed funding round to advance its crop engineering platform and expand its team.
AeroFarms acquired by Palm Ventures
Vertical farming company AeroFarms has announced its acquisition by an affiliate of Palm Ventures, a family investment office with operations in Austin and Greenwich, US.
Ayana Bio and Brevel partner on plant-based bioactive ingredient production
US-based plant cell technology company Ayana Bio has entered a strategic development partnership with Israeli fermentation specialist Brevel to advance the commercial production of plant-based bioactive ingredients.
Research highlights affordability and taste as plant-based growth drivers in Europe
New analysis of Circana data, by Good Food Institute Europe, shows that improvements in affordability and taste boosted the sales volume of plant-based foods in four of the continent’s leading markets in 2025.
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