What do S$1M Singapore grants ask of Aleph Farms and Mottainai?
Aleph Farms and Mottainai each won S$1M from Singapore’s growth-stage protein grant. The money arrives in tranches over up to 30 months against milestones.
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What does the first FDA letter for fermented casein clear?
Formo and Those Vegan Cowboys hold the first FDA “no questions” letter for precision-fermented casein. It covers cheese analogs at up to 25 g per 100 g and nothing else.
What does DMC’s US$18M buy in precision-fermented inositol?
Sofinnova and Inceptional co-led a US$18M round for DMC Biotechnologies. The money goes to selling KeyPura inositols made from dextrose into a market supplied from corn by-products.
Which kitchen scraps clear the EU high-fibre bar?
King’s College London found more fibre in discarded peels, skins and seeds than in the eaten parts of 10 of 12 produce types. Butternut skin and seeds reached 9.25 g per 100 g.
What must Meatly prove in a 20,000-litre vessel?
Meatly has moved into Imperial’s Grapht Works ahead of 2027 production runs. Its £0.22 medium and £3–4m site set up the test: yield per litre against a £10/kg target.
Can Czechia reserve sausage for meat when the EU would not?
A Czech draft decree would keep párek, klobása, salám and šunka for meat from 2027. None of the four is on the EU’s 2026 list of reserved meat terms.
Kalsec and 2nd Nature explore AI-led sourcing from food side streams
The ingredient companies will assess potential uses of AgWastePortal. A useful commercial signal would be a candidate that survives application, recovery and supply checks; the announcement reports an exploratory collaboration.
Invest-NL puts first-factory finance at the centre of food biotech scale-up
A new Dutch assessment links ingredient growth to manufacturing finance, customers and approval routes. Its 2040 revenue figures describe conditional scenarios, with the first plant still a financing problem.
Fewer delivered meals, continued support: a trial tests the taper
An eight-month comparison in 110 New York adults examines two meal-delivery schedules alongside nutrition support. Preliminary conference findings raise a practical question about the handover to home cooking.
Testing precision-fermented casein in a pizza topping
A straight substitution can fail even when a reformulated topping works. The comparison should make the recipe and process changes visible.
A 10% GLP-1 effect is about 1% of revenue. Find the rest
A 10% fall in snack spending among households using GLP-1 medicines sounds like a crisis. Run it through a brand's revenue and it shrinks to about 1%. Here is the four-line check to do before a pitch, a write-down or a brief leans on the drug.
The Judgement Core
The protected centre of the science-based venture is moving from the owned factory to a judgement core. A theory of the Copernican Firm, proposed for testing.