Check out Wild Type’s proposed cell based meat value chain. The green and orange colors indicate Wild Type’s level of focus in each area, which is similar across the industry.

Givaudan (OTCMKTS: GVDNY), global leader in production of flavors and fragrances may be producing inputs that cell based meat companies could integrate in the “prototyping & refinement” phase of flavoring the meat.

On Monday, Givaudan announced a partnership with The Kitchen, part of the Strauss Group Alpha Venture Hub.

http://cellbased.link/partnership-3ac95

Why We Care: The Kitchen incubator has an investment portfolio of companies that are actively shaping the future of food and alternative protein production processes. One noteworthy company, Aleph Farms, is developing cell based meat and focusing specifically on creating the worlds first lab grown steak. The Kitchen partnership with Givaudan demonstrates potential collaboration that could improve upon the cell based meat value chain.

Investments

Plant based egg and soon-to-be cell based meat company, JUST Inc is seeking to raise $200 million in funding. http://cellbased.link/egg-free-4e377

Since hosting the Next Gen Food Forum in November, China based venture firm, Dao Foods International, Inc has been relatively quiet. Dao’s latest cell based tech move is a partnership with U.S. based venture firm New Crop Capital whereby Dao will serve as the financial advisor to New Crop for China focused plant based and clean meat ventures.

New Crop Capital is an investor in Dao Foods and is deep in the cell based meat game, with additional investments in Mosa Meat, Memphis Meats, Geltor, Blue Nalu, Aleph Farms. http://cellbased.link/beijing-china-f4a18

Advancements

Funded by the Government of Maharashtra, the State University of Mumbai’s Institute of Chemical Technology, has announced plans to establish a Centre for Excellence in Cellular Agriculture. The Centre is set to open in 2020 and will be the world’s first state funded research facility dedicated to cellular agriculture. http://cellbased.link/joined-hands-3ebc2

📢 Make Your Voice Heard!

The University of Edinburgh and AbacusBio Limited are conducting a survey to gauge consumer attitudes on gene edited meat. http://cellbased.link/editing-food-14336