Vow Food's seed funding to support cell-cultured meat development
Vow Food, an Australian start-up developing cell-cultured meat, has secured US$6m in a seed funding round. It was led by Square Peg Capital, a venture-capital fund focused on Australia, Israel and south-east Asia, along with existing investor Blackbird Ventures, another fund servicing Australia and New Zealand. Founded by entrepreneurs Tim Noakesmith and George Peppou, Sydney-based Vow Food also received AUD25,000 (then US$16,891) in 2019 in the form of a grant from the New South Wales government. Noakesmith, who is the company's chief commercial officer, said: "We believe that the only wa...