Year in Review: Next-Gen Materials Attract Investment
Despite scale and adoption challenges, funding still flowed into material innovation in 2023.
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Despite scale and adoption challenges, funding still flowed into material innovation in 2023.
The French biotech company reportedly closed an ‘oversubscribed’ round of equity financing that would enable the firm to ramp up the production of dairy-identical proteins.
Lyon, France-based precision fermentation startup Bon Vivant, which is using biotech techniques to reprogram yeast microorganisms to produce animal-free milk proteins with a substantially lower environmental footprint than traditional dairy, credits clarity of strategy and execution for keeping its investors enthused at a time when raising remains a challenge for many tech founders. All the investors in its April 2022 pre-seed (€4M) followed on for the oversubscribed €15M (~$15.9M) seed it's announcing today, according to CEO and co-founder, Stéphane MacMillan. The ro...
Sustainable Fiber Company Werewool Raises $3.7 million in seed round funding from Material Impact and Sofinnova.
Werewool won the prestigious ELLE & Polestar Design Towards Zero Award