Was the rush to invest in Alt Proteins 4 years ago a big bubble?

Alex speaks to Isabell Decitre who runs a venture Capital investment company in Asia and Europe. They invest in future food technology - animal tech and food tech. Isabelle provides some very interesting insights into what they look for in a start up - the technology, the product and the people.

So if you’re a company looking for investment or an investor looking for a company then listen on.

Senara is based in Germany and is the first company in Europe to produce cell cultivated Milk. It was founded 2 years ago and since then the cost per litre has reduced from €300,000 to €500. Svenja, the CEO and co founder tells me that they expect the price to reach parity following sufficient scale up and collaboration.

Cell cultivated milk may mean we’ll be trying cow free products such as chocolate and cheese before too long. In this latest Future of Foods Interview with Svenja Dannewitz Prosseda I find out how it’s made, the benefits and it’s place in the Future of Food.

Some estimates put cell cultivated milk at 5% of total dairy production by 2030.

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Innovate Animal Ag are a think tank promoting the use of technology to improve standards for animals used in agriculture. They are at the forefront of In OVO sexing technology currently used in 20% of egg hatcheries in the EU and soon to be introduced to the USA. Without such technology as many as 7 billion male chicks are killed pointlessly each year. Future of Foods speaks to director Casey Downey on the many and varied ways of telling whether an egg is a male or a female.

Alex from Future of Foods Inteviews speaks to Mitchell Scott, the visionary leader behind alternative protein investment vehicle Cult Food Science, based in Canada. Cult Food is a publicly traded company which has seen celebrated growth in recent months. He’s also CEO and founder of Better Butchers which uses mushrooms to replace meat in its deli style products.

Cult recently launched protein packed meat free dog food treats called 'Noochies'.

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CEO of Onego Bio Maija Itkonen talks to Alex Crisp from Future of Foods Interviews. Onego are a BioTech food company making egg proteins without chickens. The commercial demand for egg proteins account for a third of all eggs and demand is going up.

The cruelty experienced by egg producing chickens is no mystery to us and so Onego have provided a real solution to this problem.

Food manufacturers agree that getting egg proteins from tortured chickens is just not sustainable anymore. Onego wants to take the burden away from egg producers so that they can concentrate on producing better eggs for breakfast plates in better conditions for chickens.

To discuss collaboration email crisplexmail@gmail.com

Mark Warner is CEO of Liberation Labs, leading the construction of 4 x 150,000 litre precision fermenters in Indiana USA which he expects will be up and running early next year. With production capacity up to 1200 metric tonnes of pure protein such as Casein.

Liberation Labs has the space to build up to 4 million litre capacity and they have high ambitions for growth across the globe.

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Future of Foods speaks to founder and former CEO of Shiok Meats, Sandhya Sriram, about her experiences leading a pioneering cultivated seafood company through the early stages of commercialisation.

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Illtud Dunsford is the CEO and founder of Cellular Agriculture Ltd which builds bioreactors for growing cells for use in cultivated meat. His career has seen him move from dairy farmer to meat farmer - then into the film business and now to cultivated cells. He believes cultivated meat will become a necessity rather than just a choice as the population continues to grow and the environmental problems continue to escalate.

Future of Foods Interviews speaks to him about his role in the growth and development of the industry in the UK and worldwide.

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