INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Novameat, a Spanish startup looking to accelerate the development of alternative proteins across the meat aisle, has gotten a boost in the
form of new investment capital from the leading foodtech investment firm, New Crop Capital.Founded by biomedical engineering expert Giuseppe
Catalonia, the University College of London, Chalmers University and Polytechnic University of Milan.The company first came to fame with the
develop its platform for accelerating the development of meats like steak, chicken breasts and other fibrous textured meat replacements.The
company has developed a new scaffolding technology that mimics the texture, appearance, nutritional and sensorial properties of fibrous
meats like beefsteaks, chicken breasts and fish filets.Scionti sees the technology as the next step in the development of plant-based and
lab-cultured alternatives to traditional proteins
While many clean meat and plant-based food companies have managed to take ground meat replacements to market with similar taste and textural
I was researching on regenerating animal tissues through bioprinting technologies for biomedical and veterinary applications, I discovered a
technology can.The technology was promising enough to attract the attention of New Crop Capital, arguably one of the most seasoned investors
in the expanding market of meat replacement
provides a flexible and tunable method of producing plant-based meat, with the utility to create different textures from a wide variety of
While extrusion works well for some applications, this method may not be ideal for mimicking all types of animal meat
said Good Food Institute Director of Science and Technology David Welch, in a statement.
