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Good Meat approved to sell serum-free cultivated meat in Singapore

TechCrunch

Finding way to produce cultivated meat without animal serums is one of the key challenges alternative protein startups are trying to solve. Eat Just’s backers include the Qatar Investment Authority (the sovereign wealth fund of the state of Qatar), Vulcan Capital and C2 Capital Partners, which has Alibaba as its anchor investor.

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InnovaFeed nabs $250M to extend its vertical insect farms to the US

TechCrunch

InnovaFeed , a vertical insect farm operator that’s rearing insects for animal and plant nutrition, has raised $250 million in a series D round of funding led by Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund. Image Credits: InnovaFeed. To support this push into the U.S.

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Is cell-cultured meat ready for prime time?

TechCrunch

There’s no stopping innovation, however, and alternative sources of protein are increasingly becoming a choice people would rather make. The outlook is bleak: The United Nations estimates food production will need to double to feed the nearly 10 billion people expected to populate the planet by 2050.

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