The Future of Food Technology Delivered Weekly
The Swiss venture studio starts with problems identified by food manufacturers, then builds companies and recruits founders. Its new funding will launch two more startups.
Led by Northern Gritstone, the round will fund U.S. and Asian expansion as MicroLub seeks to convert trials with major food companies into commercial supply agreements.
The Spanish startup will move production into larger bioreactors as it commercialises yeast-based egg replacers and nutrition ingredients made from agrifood by-products.
The Belgian software startup centralises supplier documents, lab results and certification requirements, and is building AI agents to automate routine quality and compliance checks for food companies.
The food tech sector just absorbed two opposing data points that, taken together, tell you everything about where this industry is headed in late 2026. On one side: 80 Acres Farms, once valued at over $1 billion and hailed as the future of indoor agriculture, abruptly shut its doors after a last-minute acquisition fell through….