Cell-Based Finance

Helping investors discover, understand, and bring awareness to the innovative companies building the future of food — #CellAg #CellBased #BioTech

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Introducing Cell-Based Finance:

We're focused on cutting edge technologies driving the future of food.

Following the exciting world of cell-based food and the companies, technology, and researchers dedicated to advancing it all.

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Cultivated meat has found its next frontier: pet food.

@thenewmoney profiles Meatly's approval from British regulators to bring cultivated meat to pet food for the first time ever.

#cultivatedmeat #pets #petfood

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We've added Mark Binns as our capital markets advisor! #capitalmarkets https://t.co/JSE8UdP55j

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Excited to announce that we've just closed an 800k private placement! #cellag #fundraising #PressRelease https://t.co/N1BMbPxX8r

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Congrats to @alephfarms on their recent regulatory approval in Israel! We've also put together a quick update on our portfolio companies and the huge strides they are making in #cellag
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Congrats to our portfolio company @CaCultured on their recently announced agreement with Japan's largest chocolate company @MeijiJapan! #cellag #chocolate #startup https://t.co/SjJvUgkGmD

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Cultivated meat company @itsmeatable raised $35M in funding round, raising their total funding to $95M.

The funding round was led by @AgronomicsLtd and existing investors, including @blueyard, Bridford, MilkyWay, DSM Venturing, and @taavet.

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Chinese biotech company CellX launched China’s first large-scale pilot plant for cultivated meat.

The new pilot plant has a capacity of 1,000 tons of cultivated meat.

CellX says it will apply for regulatory approval in Singapore and the US, with the aim to launch by 2025.

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The Netherlands has approved cell-based products to be tasted in controlled environments, becoming the first country within the European Union to approve tastings of cell-cultured products.

Cell-based food tastings are currently permitted in Israel, Singapore, and the U.S.

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There is a rapidly growing momentum and cultural shift towards alternative protein sources.

Last year, cell-based meat and seafood companies raised $1.38 billion in investment.

Investors are sending a clear message - they believe in the future of alternative protein.

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Breaking News:

For the first time in the U.S., the @USDA has granted approval to two California-based startups, @UPSIDEfoods and @GOODMeat, to sell their lab-grown chicken.

This is a major milestone for the cultivated meat industry.

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The Asia-Pacific Society for Cellular Agriculture (APAC-SCA) and the Japan Association for Cellular Agriculture (JACA) partnered to promote the growth of cellular agriculture in Japan and the Asia-Pacific region.

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.@CULTFoodScience partnered with Alcheme Bio to accelerate development of cellular agriculture products for $CULT and their portfolio companies.

Alcheme Bio uses AI and machine learning to revolutionize how cultured product companies optimize for flavor and nutrition.

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Cultivated meat company @AlephFarms announced that the famous chef @MarcusCooks is joining the company as an investor, culinary advisor, and launch partner in the US.

Samuelsson is a celebrity chef behind 13 restaurants worldwide and a @nytimes best-selling author.

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.@BiotechFoods began construction in Spain on their first commercial-scale plant to produce lab-grown meat.

The factory would be the world’s largest lab-grown meat plant and will produce more than 1,000 tonnes of cultivated beef per year.

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Researchers from South Korea’s Pohang University have developed a bioink for 3D printing artificial organs and tissues that uses algae.

The team used alginate derived from algae to create the ink, which enables enhanced cell viability and printing resolution.

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A team of researchers from @ZJU_China have successfully grown the country's first centimeter-scale fish fillets using stem cell isolation and tissue construction.

The researchers constructed a 3D scaffold with a gelatin-based gel to provide a structure for the cells to grow.

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The momentum towards alternative protein sources is growing. In 2022:

156 companies were dedicated to producing cultured meat and seafood.

$896M was invested in cell-based food companies.

Investors are sending a clear message, they believe in the future of alternative protein.

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“The fact that we can grow large amounts of protein-rich muscle tissue in a stirred bioreactor is a major step in upscaling the production of true cultured meat.”

- Sam Norris, Postdoctoral Scholar at @UCLA

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Food tech company @itsmeatable held their first-ever cultivated meat tasting in Singapore, after receiving @SGFoodAgency's approval. 

In the coming months, Meatable will organize more tastings in Singapore and internationally, to educate future partners and consumers.