FoodLabs

2023年3月20日

FoodLabs为首的2023年3月20日,一轮融资,进一步的投资者包括CPT资本,神功资本,即插即用,牛奶和蜂蜜企业和HackCapital PoLoPo进一步发展其专有技术种植土豆鸡蛋蛋白:一种植物biofactory生产蛋白质可以用作功能性成分在食品工业中利用具有成本效益的蛋白质来源,以满足食品工业的需要,滋养世界不断增长的人口Rehovot 20.03.2023:以色列分子农业公司PoLoPo关闭了一轮1.75美元资金翻倍了发展专有技术在土豆种植动物蛋白——世界上最广泛种植的non-cereal粮食作物。计划轮由FoodLabs领导,进一步的投资者包括CPT资本,神功资本,即插即用,牛奶和蜂蜜企业和HackCapital。与新鲜的资金,PoLoPo将进一步扩大其核心团队的世界级科学家和加速他们的研发努力为了提供原型在未来的一年半。PoLoPo开发了专有技术表达蛋白在一个可伸缩的土豆,具有成本效益的方式,以满足食品行业的蛋白质需求和滋养世界不断增长的人口。公司建立技术平台对蛋白质生产,开始与卵清蛋白(蛋白的蛋白质),目标266亿美元的鸡蛋蛋白市场以及对蛋清蛋白质替代品行业日益增长的需求。PoLoPo卵白蛋白将与“真正的”蛋卵清蛋白的功能、营养价值和蛋白质序列。“我们很高兴赢得了一群这样的著名和志同道合的投资者”,玛雅Sapir-Mir博士说。”的大量资金,我们的目标是达到几个重要的里程碑包括蛋白质丰富的马铃薯块茎和卵白蛋白功能的样品。”“我们要对世界产生更好的食物。分子农业技术,用于生产高质量的蛋白质,提供了一个巨大的机会,在与动物的方程和减少生产过程的碳足迹”博士说莱雅Liberman-Aloni生产在全球100多个国家和第三世界上最重要的粮食作物,马铃薯是丰富的,有弹性的,便宜,和多才多艺但未充分利用的食物来源。PoLoPo potato-to-protein通路商业的可伸缩性,因为植物生长要求相对较低的投资和易于升级的共同农业实践。 “We’ve been very impressed by the disruptive potential of their platform technology and, most importantly, by the deep plant science expertise of PoLoPo's founders and their bold vision for the company”, said Christian Guba, “We believe they are set to complement the incumbents in Precision Fermentation by pioneering a simpler approach to develop proteins.” PoLoPo founders Dr. Maya Sapir-Mir and Dr. Raya Liberman-Aloni are plant metabolic engineers, experts in expression and targeting of functional proteins in plants. The co-founders met over 15 years ago, during their PhD studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and worked side by side for 6 years. PoLoPo has won the Coller startup competition FoodTech track, which took place in July 2022, thus securing its first investment from CPT Capital. In October 2022, PoLoPo were crowned winners of the FoodHack Demo Day as the startup with the most impact potential. About PoLoPo PoLoPo is a science based FoodTech startup using molecular farming technology that enables the production of real animal proteins without using any animals. PoLoPo is developing a plant to be used as a protein bio-factory. This plant will serve as a robust platform for high scale, easy to switch, custom-made production of proteins with egg protein being its first target to be produced in an edible plant. Using directed metabolic engineering techniques, while exploiting the full potential of plants as diverse metabolite and green protein factory, PoLoPo creates a potato plant able to produce considerable high amounts of free amino-acids, to be used as building blocks for high scale production of proteins in the potato tuber. About FoodLabs FoodLabs is the leading pan-European Early Stage VC investor and venture studio for food, sustainability and health. Based in Berlin, FoodLabs has built and invested in more than 50 early-stage FoodTech companies since 2016. We’re backing the most ambitious, purpose-driven entrepreneurs, who are committed to changing the world’s largest industry. FoodLabs has been an early investor in some of the most seminal, fastest-growing European FoodTech startups including Infarm, Meatable, Mushlabs, Sanity Group and Formo.