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Cutting costs, not corners: Michelle Lu on making cultivated meat scalable
Michelle Lu, founder and CEO of Novel Farms, discusses cultivated meat with Nick Bradley on the podcast, Protein Production Technology International.
Novel Farms CEO highlights the value of the Activate Fellowship
Rethinking cell ag: making cultivated meat a true commodity food
Food is a commodity — it’s supposed to be cheap. If we want to compete, we can’t rely on ultra-purified inputs. We have to work with cruder, cheaper raw materials. Read more.
Cultivated Meat Startups Form Partnership to Bring Novel Pet Food to Californians
Friends & Family Pet Food Company, the newly launched startup focused on alternative pet food, has announced a second collaboration to produce cultivated meat for cats and dogs. Read the full article at Green Queen
Novel Farms: Food Science for the Planet
Our reliance on industrial animal agriculture has strained food systems worldwide, but the path to more sustainable nutrition is becoming clearer. Read the full article at Shared Future
Friends & Family and Novel Farms to Launch Cultivated Meat Products for Pets by 2025
We want to move from factory-farmed animal protein to sustainable, humane ingredients by commercializing cultivated & other sustainable protein pet foods Read the full story at Cultivated X
Friends & Family Pet Food Company (FnF) announces a strategic partnership with Novel Farms
A New Era for Pet Nutrition Read the full article at Edible Planet Ventures
Novel Farms Co-Founders Names as Breakthrough Energy Fellows
As part of BE’s Third Cohort of Fellows, Nieves Martinez Marshall and Michelle Lu secure extensive funding and support to help accelerate the commercialization of cultivated meat. Read the full article at businesswire
Novel Farms Receives $999,967 NSF Grant to Elevate Cultivated Meat Production
We are […] grateful for NSF’s recognition of the disruptive potential of our scaffolding platform Read the full story at Vegconomist
Cyclotron Road Announces 2023 Cohort of Entrepreneurial Fellows
Cyclotron Road Announces 2023Cohort of Entreprenurial Fellows Launched in 2015, the Cyclotron Road fellowship program was the first U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP). Read the full article at Berkeley Lab
Novel Farms Raises $1.4M in Pre-Seed Round for First Marbled Cultivated Pork Loin
“Our goal is to accelerate the widespread adoption of cultivated meat…by producing ‘hard-to-resist’ whole muscle cuts” Read the full story at Vegconomist
Novel Farms flexes its pork loin ‘muscle’ following future equity investment
“We just have a very good, efficient scaffold, and the cells attach very well,” Martinez Marshall said. “That’s something that nobody else has. Once we confirm and scale with a bioreactor, then we will be the most affordable of all the companies.” Read the full story…