Christine Hall
In the quest to replace traditional seafood with alternatives, Berlin-based Pacifico Biolabs believes it has a unique approach to making whole muscle structures using fermentation.
While fermentation, the process of growing cells in bioreactors, is already used to make a number of alternative proteins, like cultivated meat, Zac Austin, co-founder...
Bold, a financial technology company building an electronic payments infrastructure in Colombia, raised $50 million in Series C funding in a round led by existing investor General Atlantic.
International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, joined existing investors InQLab and Amador in the round. In total, Bold...
Mushrooms are having a moment. Whether it’s in the form of a functional beverage, using the mushroom root to make alternative protein, creating leather-like materials or just the mushroom itself, the fungi is gaining an audience.
Spacegoods is the latest startup to join this craze. The London-based wellness brand is...
FlowFi, a startup creating a marketplace of finance experts for entrepreneurs, closed on $9 million in seed funding.
Blumberg Capital led the investment and was joined by a group of investors including Parade Ventures, Differential Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Special Ventures, 14 Peaks Capital and Cooley LLP.
Nate Cavanaugh and co-founder J.J....
20VC founder Harry Stebbings unveiled his third, and final, offshoot fund called 20PRODUCT that kicks off with $5 million in capital commitments.
Similar to his earlier funds, 20SALES and 20GROWTH, 20PRODUCT brings together a group of experts that will invest in early-stage founders looking to start, grow and scale their...
Odyssey, a mushroom-based functional energy beverage maker, raised another $6 million in an equity investment to give it $14 million in total funding since launching its first drink two years ago.
Odyssey’s products tap into the health benefits of Lion’s Mane and Cordyceps mushrooms to produce a drink that combines...
Buying a home is a big step, as is handing over a large chunk of cash in order to do it.
Depending on the title company, real estate transactions like this are done on paper with a check or through electronic wire transfer. While that is more convenient, one wrong...
Goodshuffle, building software for the event rental and production industry, raised $5 million in a round of Series A funding from FINTOP Capital.
The global pandemic “wiped out much of the events industry,” CEO Andrew Garcia told TechCrunch. However, Goodshuffle’s user base — made up of small companies that rent...
The global pandemic put a spotlight on people’s yearning for wellness and well-being. Niremia Collective, a Silicon Valley–based venture capital firm, is tapping into that — and the gender disparity in VC — with its first fund of $22.5 million in capital commitments.
Niremia Collective is the latest women-led debut...
Using precision fermentation as a manufacturing process to create bio-based products like chemicals, medicines and even cultivated meat continues to be costly and not yet perfected for scalability.
Enter Izote Biosciences. The startup is developing a proprietary method that enables bacteria to “breathe without oxygen” inside a bioreactor. And it raised...
