If you’re adventurous with your Food, or just like to keep up with the fast-moving food-tech industry, here’s a roundup of this week’s stories and some notable news we didn’t get to cover.

Upside Foods gets on the plate

In what may be the first sale of Cultured Meat in the United States, Upside Foods said it will introduce its whole-textured product today at chef Dominique Crenn’s Bar Crenn restaurant in San Francisco. This comes just a week after winning approval to sell their cell-grown chicken product in the US.

Upside farmed chicken is fried in a tempura batter, drizzled with a burnt chili aioli, and garnished with edible flowers and greens. By the way, this is the first time Bar Crenn has included Meat on its menu since it was removed in 2018, according to the company. The farmed chicken will be incorporated into additional dishes at the restaurant through a series of ongoing monthly services beginning later this year.

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Bluu Seafood secures $17.5 million to bring farmed fish products to market

Paul reported on Bluu Seafood’s new Series A funding round of €16 million ($17.5 million). The German company is creating farmed seafood and presented its first products last Augustwhich included a line of fish fingers and fish balls.

Joyful Ventures debuts $23 million focused on investment in sustainable protein startups

Thriving startups in the alternative protein sector now have a new place to launch. The venture capital firm Joyful Ventures presented its new fund. Joyful was co-founded by Jennifer Stojkovic, Milo Runkle, and Blaine Vess. The company has already made two investments from the fund, including new school food and Orbillion Bio.

Omeat emerges from stealth with a robust technological approach to cultured meat culture media

Omeat, a Los Angeles cultured meat startup, believes it has cracked the code on how to cut traditionally high costs to scale production of cultured meat through a process that uses regenerative factors extracted humanely from cow plasma to make media. crop.

BetterBrand’s new mass lifts the company’s valuation to more than $170 million

BetterBrand, a food technology company known for creating “The Better Bagel,” closed with $6 million of Series A capital at a pre-money valuation of $170 million. BetterBrand’s patented “grit shift” technology combines clean label and non-GMO ingredients to create a better-for-you line of baked goods.

Make way for a new vegan protein on the menu

Natasha writes about Finnish startup Solar Foods’ alternative protein, Solein, which has been mixed into a custom (vegan) chocolate ice cream at a restaurant in Singapore. Not your average scoop for her, she says.

Time to make the meat

In April, we made a comment He focused on whether additional capacity for precision fermentation, which is a method that uses bioreactors to produce cultured meat, is what was really needed to move the industry forward and reduce costs.

For those in the field of more biomanufacturing facilities, Liberation Labs is contributing to that. This week the company I broke the floor at its first facility in Indiana which, when fully operational, will have the capacity to produce up to 600,000 liters of biobased protein.

impossible vs. Motif, take 20

during the last roundI mentioned the year-long lawsuit between Impossible Foods and Motif Foodworks it became interesting when it was discovered that Suspicious motive Impossible hired some private investigators who allegedly used false identities to obtain information about Motif’s products.

Ultimately, a court ruled that this Impossible strategy did not violate any rules, according to the story.

While that was a trademark for Impossible, the newest thing to come out is a trademark for Motif: The US Patent and Trademark Office Board of Patent Appeals and Trials has agreed to review Impossible’s intellectual property related to the use of heme to create plant-based meat substitutes. more here.

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