Cultivated Seafood

Wildtype Sets Course to Bring Cultivated Seafood to Market with $100M Series B Funding Round

February 24, 2022 Wildtype

Wildtype, a startup creating sushi-grade cultivated salmon, today announced the completion of a $100 million Series B funding round, the largest for a cultivated seafood company. The round was led by L Catterton, and includes investments from Leonardo DiCaprio, Bezos Expeditions, Temasek, S2G Ventures Oceans and Seafood Fund, Robert Downey Jr.’s FootPrint Coalition, Cargill, and several prominent chefs and professional athletes. …

UPSIDE Foods Acquires Cultivated Seafood Company Cultured Decadence

February 4, 2022 UPSIDE Foods

UPSIDE Foods (formerly Memphis Meats), the leading company in the cultivated meat, poultry, and seafood industry, announced the acquisition of Cultured Decadence, a Madison, Wisconsin-based cultivated seafood company. …

Lab-Grown Shrimp’s Price Tag Shows Long Way Ahead to Mass Market

January 7, 2022 Jasmine Ng and Haslinda Amin, Bloomberg

Singapore-based Shiok Meats Pte plans to launch its flagship cell-based shrimp in 18 months at about S$50 ($37) a kilogram, Chief Executive Officer Sandhya Sriram said in an interview. That’s roughly double the price of real prawns. …

Cultivated Seafood Company Wildtype Announces First Restaurant and Retail Agreements with Pokéworks and SNOWFOX

December 22, 2021 Wildtype

Wildtype, a startup creating sushi-grade cultivated salmon, today announced distribution agreements with SNOWFOX and Pokéworks. SNOWFOX operates sushi bars at 1,230 grocery locations nationwide and Pokéworks operates 65 fast casual restaurants, with plans to grow to over 100 stores by 2023. These first-of-their-kind retail and restaurant partnerships pave the way for consumers to experience Wildtype’s cultivated salmon once the company’s manufacturing capabilities achieve the required scale. …

UPSIDE Foods Appoints Dr. Robert Kiss as Executive Vice President of Technical Operations

October 26, 2021 UPSIDE Foods

Leading cultivated meat, poultry and seafood company UPSIDE Foods (formerly Memphis Meats) announced today the appointment of Robert (Bob) Kiss, Ph.D., as Executive Vice President (EVP) of Technical Operations. Dr. Kiss has three decades of industrial biotechnology experience and will oversee all of the company’s technical operations and processes for producing cultivated meat at research through commercial scales. …