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German cell-cultivated milk startup Senara has opened a second site in Maastricht backed by an undisclosed LIOF investment, and is raising a new round for a potential pilot plant. It targets ice cream, cheese and cosmetics, with an industrial bioreactor planned by 2028.
Enterprise Singapore and the Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein have awarded S$1 million each to Aleph Farms, which plans a 2027 restaurant launch of cultivated beef in Singapore, and Mottainai Food Tech, which ferments okara into a hybrid-meat ingredient.
The former Better Meat Co has cleared India’s novel food pathway for Rhiza, its Neurospora crassa mycelium ingredient, making India its fourth approved market after the US, Singapore and Canada, with supply to Indian food manufacturers tied to commercial capacity coming online in Q2 2027.
Marc Lore’s $9 billion Wonder plans at least 100 Texas locations by end-2027, is automating commissary-fed kitchens toward a 2040 autonomy goal and will launch an AI-built “Wonder Create” restaurant platform on Nov 17 as it prepares for a potential listing.
New York-based Pythag Tech has closed a $4.25 million seed round led by Azolla Ventures, with Endurance28 participating. The startup uses machine learning to direct lab experiments on growth media, cell lines and bioprocessing, then licenses the resulting cultivated meat production processes to food companies.
Boston biotech startup Galy, known for lab-grown cotton, has moved into plant cell-cultured cocoa with WunderHaus, a couverture and baking chocolate brand for chefs. Its cocoa powder has self-affirmed GRAS status, a Boston restaurant is the first launch partner, and a UAE entry is planned for 2027.
Family-founded EZ Bombs, maker of shelf-stable birria and pozole seasoning bombs, has raised a $25 million Series A led by CAVU Consumer Partners after scaling from TikTok Shop sales to more than 8,000 retail doors including Walmart, Costco and Kroger.
With novel foods left out of the Biotech Act’s regulatory sandboxes, the Ministry of Future Affairs is recruiting up to ten companies for a Brussels pilot that will feed anonymised lessons on the EU approval process back to EFSA and the European Commission.
The Edinburgh biotech, which ferments whisky distilling by-products into microalgae rich in DHA omega-3, has secured £2.5 million from the Scottish National Investment Bank as it scales a Grangemouth plant aimed at aquafeed and pet nutrition buyers.
Tanzania’s East Africa Foods secured $40 million led by InfraCo, FMO and Oikocredit to replicate its owned processing, warehouse and trucking model in Kenya and cut post-harvest food loss.