🌳 Bioeconomy Newsletter #23
News, recent funding announcement and very interesting reads
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Today I am covering 12 funding rounds and 17 interesting articles. Currently, I am working on improving the resource section as this is something that I believe will add more value to you.
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🌿 Veri - Finland - €3.2 m - seed - food intelligence app live tracking blood glucose levels LINK
🌿 Resourcify - Germany - €3 m - seed - recycling platform for digital waste LINK
🌿 Float Foods - Singapore - $1.66 m - seed - plant-based analog of whole chicken eggs LINK
🌿 SIMULATE - US - $50 m - Series B - mail-order, plant-based ‘chicken’ nuggets LINK
🌿 Volta Greentech - Sweden - $2 m - seed - algae based low-emissions livestock feed LINK
🌿 Sentera - US - $25 m - Series C - digital platform for food and agriculture LINK
🌿 TerraClear - US - $25m - Series A - rock clearing technology for increased agricultural productivity LINK
🌿 Blu Oceans - US - $5 m - seed - producing red seaweed the low-emission feed supplement solution for cattle LINK
🌿 CollectiveCrunch - Finland - €2.3 m - Series A - carbon monitoring tool for data driven analytics of forest assets LINK
🌿 ViAqua - Israel - $4.3 m - Series A - RNA-based feed to fight viral infections in shrimp and other water-based species LINK
🌿 Mocktails - UK - $2.5 m - Early Stage - non-GMO, gluten-free, and alcohol-free beverages and cocktails LINK
🌿 Innocent Meat - Germany - €500 k - Seed - automated cell-based meat production LINK
News, Readings & Interesting Things
🌿 Unilever partners with fermented protein provider to bulk up plant-based alternatives LINK
🌿 Cow-free dairy can both disrupt and complement traditional operations - Spanish dairy company Pascual has launched a global incubation program for cellular agriculture technologies LINK
🌿 Meeting the challenges of deep tech investing. LINK
🌿 Etsy is buying Gen Z-focused fashion resale app Depop for $1.62 billion LINK
🌿 Growing concerns over animal welfare and environmental footprint of silk have left many seeking change within the industry, after almost 5000 year of the fabrics production - A guide to the science of silk and the opportunities for next-gen silk innovation LINK
🌿 If current trends continue, of the 33.2 billion tons of plastic waste, more than 12 billion metric tons is expected to end up in landfills, or in our natural environment LINK
🌿 Why Impossible & Oatly Chose A ‘Gastronomy First’ Go-To-Market Strategy: 4 Things You Need To Know LINK
🌿 Buoyed by the success of red-meat mimics from the likes of Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, a growing number of companies is angling to capture their share of the early market for animal-free seafood LINK
🌿 Global fur sales are steadily declining worldwide over concerns with animal cruelty and COVID-19 - Is Tissue Engineering The Future of Cruelty-Free Fashion? LINK
🌿 Avoiding contamination with robotics - Accelerating Automation and Digitization in Industrial Microbiology LINK
🌿 The Figures that Will Move the Venture Capital Market in the Next 5 Years LINK
🌿 Scientists are figuring out how to make animal protein without using any animal cells at all using fermentation and it could become the new game-changer for alternative proteins LINK
🌿 Farmers and fishers receive over 700 billion dollars (possibly one trillion) annually around the globe. In the EU alone, agricultural and fishery subsidies make up 40% of its total budget - Why is meat so cheap, y’all? LINK
🌿 The top three months for European VC investment have all come in the past three months. Most of that money is from non-European investors (via DealRoom)
🌿 Plant-Based Industry Projected to Increase x100 and Reach $1.4 trillion - a collection of similar wildly exciting data and projections about plant-based growth LINK
🌿 LIVEKINDLY Collective Acquires Seaweed Burger Maker, The Dutch Weed Burger LINK
Fun & Random
🌿 The first plant-based only Burger King opened in Cologne, Germany. Funny enough this is around my corner. It’s now 100% taste, 0% meat, powered by The Vegetarian Butcher.
Running from June 7 to 11, Burger King will be offering its range of exclusively plant-based meats and giving consumers and industry players the chance to take a look at some of its recent product innovations. LINK
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