Funding & investments
Kääpä Biotech secures €900,000 investment from PeakBridge to meet rising functional mushroom demand
Kääpä Biotech, a Finnish start-up that develops functional mushroom products, has secured a €900,000 strategic investment from global agri-food venture capital firm PeakBridge.
Liberation Labs partners with NEOM to establish precision fermentation facility in Saudi Arabia
Liberation Labs, a biomanufacturing scale-up backed by Agronomics, has announced a strategic partnership with the NEOM Investment Fund (NIF).
Vegan Food Group and Eat Just announce partnership backed by £11.25m investment
Vegan Food Group has announced a new partnership with US food-tech company Eat Just, creator of the Just Egg product.
Beneo opens €50m pulse-processing plant in Germany
Beneo has opened its first pulse-processing plant in Obrigheim, Germany, following an investment of around €50 million by its parent company, the Südzucker Group.
Intake secures $9.2m to propel precision fermentation innovations
South Korea-based food-tech start-up Intake has closed a Series C funding round, securing $9.2m from a consortium of seven investors.
Lantmännen secures €50m loan from the European Investment Bank for new pea protein facility
Lantmännen has been granted a €50m loan from the European Investment Bank to co-finance a new pea protein production facility.
Ecovative secures $11m in funding to fuel growth of mycelium bacon
Ecovative has secured over $11m in funding to support the growth of its spin-out company MyForestFoods’ mycelium-based bacon.
UK government invests £1.4m in expanding precision fermentation expertise
The UK has invested £1.4m into a new innovation hub, aiming to enable the Food Standards Agency to broaden its expertise in new food-tech.
