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Arda Biomaterials’ cofounder talks choosing alt-materials over alt-meats and how craft beer inspired a luxury bag
“Materials are much more forgiving than protein isolates for food,” Brett Cotten tells AgFunderNews.
“Materials are much more forgiving than protein isolates for food,” Brett Cotten tells AgFunderNews.
Funds will help scale up operations of rubber production and further build out the company’s seed breeding program.
The luxury EV convertible deploys MycoWorks’ biomaterials in the charging mats on the console, the door map pockets, and custom accessories.
“We have the financial model, investors, and playbook to scale rapidly,” says the Sweden-based company.
Dyeing fabric is terrible for the environment, says Chui-Lian Lee. But what if you could create textiles with inherent color, and skip the dyeing step altogether?
From setting investor expectations to communicating the realities of R&D, here’s what biomaterials startups should be considering.
Bucking the overall global agrifoodtech investment trend, funding returned to pre-Covid levels.
“You need to engage with deep tech to support the green transition,” says longtime investor and biomaterials champion Nicolaj Reffstrup.
Bpacks combines bark from timber production, used coffee grounds and other bio-based materials to create pellets that can be used by packaging manufacturers to create a variety of materials from produce packaging to meat trays.
Agrifoodtech startup investment has hit its lowest point in six years as a result of fewer and smaller deals.
Indiana’s Producer Led Innovation Challenge tackles the challenge of making farmers more productive in the face of economic headwinds.
For the second year in a row, the sector saw an increase in VC investment despite an overall decline in agrifoodtech funding.
How efficient are bugs at creating bags, and how scalable is Modern Synthesis’ patent-pending biomaterials technology?
Fund III will address “problems that transcend time and generation such as water scarcity, the food supply chain, sustainable manufacturing, mobility and energy, and under-represented healthcare.”
Biotech startup Modern Synthesis and Danish fashion brand GANNI have teamed up to create GANNI’s signature ‘Bou Bag’ using a leather-alternative produced, in part, by bacteria.
TerraSafe Materials, the first startup to secure funding from Big Idea Ventures’ Generation Food Rural Partners fund, will license IP from multiple universities to develop novel materials to reduce the amount of plastic waste entering the environment.
Woodoo—a French biomaterials startup transforming low-grade wood into high-performance, low-environmental impact materials—has raised $31m.
S2G will provide funding for startups in capital-intensive, asset-oriented industries including agriculture, energy and oceans.
Through a novel patent-pending process, ARC Ento Tech is turning waste into animal feeds, fertilizers and a reductant that could replace coking coal.
The macro headwinds startups face right now are also driving more interest in agrifoodtech as a solution to some of today’s most pressing climate issues.
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