Cheese Startup Grows Dairy-Free Mozzarella in the Lab

December 23, 2019 Tim Loh, Bloomberg

LegenDairy Foods, which makes cheese from lab-produced milk compounds, raised $4.7 million from a cohort of investors including German drugs and tech company Merck KGaA. Its goal is to make cheese that’s closer to the real thing than plant-based options from cashews or other sources, without milking cows.