INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Authors: JordanThe venture investment arm of massive meat manufacturer Tyson Foods is continuing its push into potential alternative
takes pains to emphasize that Tyson is continuing to invest in its traditional business lines, but acknowledges that the company believes
Foods are focused on developing plant-based alternatives to the proteins that give meat its flavor, Future Meat Technologies and Memphis
Meats are trying to use animal cells themselves to grow meat, rather than basically harvesting it from dead animals.Chef Uri Navon mixing
that his company can produce the fat without harvesting animals and without genetic modification.For Whitmore, what separates Future Meat
Technologies and Memphis Meats is the scale of the bioreactors that the companies are using to make their meat
together to finance the $2.2 million seed round for Future Meat Technologies speak to the market opportunity that exists for getting a meat
than a trillion dollars, including explosive growth in China
investors in the Future Meat Technologies seed round included the Neto Group, an Israeli food conglomerate; Seed2Growth Ventures, a
Chicago-based fund backed by Walmart wealth; BitsXBites, a Chinese food technology fund; and Agrinnovation, an Israeli investment fund
Agriculture, specializes in incubating applied research in such fields as animal-free meat sources
