Liberation Labs comes out of stealth with a $20M funding round and a precision fermentation platform for the production of alternative proteins at scale News arrives from New York that Mark Warner and his Liberation Labs team have closed a $20 million seed round of funding, for its journey into deploying precision fermentation platform for […]
In Portugal, last month SilicoLife concluded the first of two Series A rounds fundraising to the tune of €4.9 million, covered in its entirety by funds managed by venture capital firm BlueCrow. In line with the approved objective-based program for the next 24 months, BlueCrow is committed to securing a second, equally sizable, round of […]
In Finland, Synbio Powerlabs has secured €6.6 million funding for a unique biotechnology pilot plant for precision fermentation. The Finnish Ministry of Employment and the economy organization Business Finland has granted €2.99 million in funding to Synbio Powerlabs for a pilot project specializing in precision fermentation and biotechnology. The state-of-the-art facility is part of a […]
In Singapore, ScaleUp Bio will launch two precision fermentation facilities for start-ups to use during their product development phase in an effort to help bridge the gap for early-stage companies in Southeast Asia. The first facility will be in central Singapore at the Nurasa’s Food Tech Innovation Centre, hosted together with the Singapore Agency for […]
In New Zealand and the Netherlands, dairy coop Fonterra and nutrition and health company DSM have partnered to commercialize dairy proteins produced using precision fermentation. The two companies, which began collaborating on the concept in 2021, will launch a startup to commercialize the resulting technology. Komal Mistry-Mehta, chief innovation and brand officer at Fonterra, tells […]
In California, Infinome Biosciences, a next generation biomanufacturing company, and Kalsec Inc, a leading global producer of natural spice and herb extracts for the food and beverage industry, announced a new partnership to develop and commercialize multiple precision fermentation products. The partnership will deliver naturally produced, highly innovative ingredients with superior quality and consistency, in […]
In Singapore, agribusiness major ADM and Asia Sustainable Foods Platform have inaugurated their ScaleUp Bio Joint Venture, which will provide contract development and manufacturing operations for precision fermentation for food applications. ScaleUp Bio already has a multi-year partnership with A*STAR’s Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation to establish a joint lab focused on precision […]
In Brazil, Amyris, Inc. has successfully started fermentation at its new precision fermentation plant in Barra Bonita, Brazil. The greenfield site at Barra Bonita establishes Amyris as the leading manufacturer of highly engineered organisms at industrial scale. The first of its kind precision fermentation plant is a strategic investment made to meet rapidly growing demand […]
In California, Amyris, Inc. successfully started fermentation at its new precision fermentation plant in Barra Bonita, Brazil. The greenfield site at Barra Bonita establishes Amyris as the leading manufacturer of highly engineered organisms at industrial scale. The plant consists of five precision fermentation “mini-factories” capable of concurrently producing all 13 of Amyris’ molecules currently in […]
Sometimes you need a good laugh, especially these days, and now there’s a new comic book to help get kids excited about the bioeconomy. And speaking of comics, Marvel IronMan’s Robert Downey Jr. invested in Motif FoodWorks which uses precision fermentation to produce plant-based meats. And speaking of fermentation, Solvay’s getting involved in a Lisbon […]
