Elaine Watson
Editor at AgFunderNews
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2 days ago |
agfundernews.com | Elaine Watson
Founded in Vienna in 2021, Arkeon is one of a small, but high-profile group of startups attempting to decouple protein production from agricultural land via gas fermentation, using gases instead of purified sugars to feed microbes. Four years later, it has filed for insolvency. So what went wrong?
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2 days ago |
agfundernews.com | Elaine Watson
Koppie founders Daan Raemdonch (top) and Pascal Mertens (bottom). Image credit: Koppie Belgian startup Koppie is moving into the alt-coffee space with patent-pending fermentation and roasting tech transforming pulses into “beans” that can be ground and brewed like traditional coffee, helping the industry address skyrocketing prices and availability concerns.
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2 days ago |
winchesteragservice.com | Elaine Watson
Koppie is in discussions with European roasters and retailers with plans to launch at commercial scale in Q1, 2026. The post Belgian startup Koppie emerges from stealth to disrupt alt-coffee market with single-ingredient offering appeared first on AgFunderNews.
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3 days ago |
agfundernews.com | Elaine Watson
With some notable exceptions (think algal DHA), the microalgae field is littered with the corpses of startups that have tried—and failed—to make a buck out of these microscopic aquatic organisms. So what makes Arborea—which is currently building a commercial-scale plant in Portugal to make proteins, pigments, and other high-value ingredients from photosynthetic microalgae—different? It’s a fair question, founder Julian Melchiorri tells AgFunderNews.
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4 days ago |
agfundernews.com | Elaine Watson
Virginia-based startup Capra Biosciences has developed a novel method of producing retinol (a form of vitamin A) in a biomanufacturing process it claims could compete with petrochemical-based production.
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