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Solutions Database

Platform for facilitating matchmaking between funders and funding-seekers

It can be challenging and time-intensive for startups and researchers to find funders that are interested in their technology area, technological maturity level, fundraising stage, location, type of funding sought, and other factors. Lists of investors, lenders, and grant-making institutions with specific information on interest areas and point of contact can significantly reduce friction in fundraising. Likewise, it can be difficult for funders to find out about these opportunities, so centralized listings of all companies and researchers actively seeking funding can facilitate deal flow.

  1. Cultivated
  2. Ecosystem
  3. Fermentation
  4. GFI
  5. Industry
  6. Investment
  7. Investors
  8. Plant-Based
  9. Species-agnostic
Solutions Database

Infrastructure loan fund

The success of early-days products has demonstrated strong consumer interest, but investment is needed to enable alternative protein supply chain companies to build out the infrastructure needed to capitalize on this opportunity. In particular, there is a need for debt-based financing that can be structured to support large infrastructure projects.

  1. 2 - Early adoption
  2. Commercial
  3. Cultivated
  4. Fermentation
  5. Industry
  6. Industry
  7. Investment
  8. Investors
  9. Plant-Based
  10. Production
  11. Species-agnostic
Solutions Database

Infrastructure and equipment leasing fund

Infrastructure leasing for production and processing facilities as well as capital equipment would enable alternative protein companies to rapidly expand capacity without large upfront capital investments. Having leasing funds and leasing companies with an alternative protein focus could entice corporate players who otherwise would not have considered alternative proteins to enter the space. They could also spare many smaller alternative protein startups from undertaking relatively expensive, equity-backed capital raises early in their expansion.

  1. Commercial
  2. Cultivated
  3. Fermentation
  4. Industry
  5. Industry
  6. Investment
  7. Investors
  8. Plant-Based
  9. Production
  10. Raw Materials, Ingredients, & Inputs
  11. Species-agnostic
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Industry workshops, courses, and training programs

The alternative protein industry has a significant need for workers and innovators with specialized knowledge spanning multiple traditional disciplines. However, since few universities offer alternative protein majors or dedicated subject matter, most alternative protein knowledge has to be learned on the job. The alternative protein industry needs educational programming that can cover the depth and complexity of knowledge, experience, and skills required within the context of traditional academic institutions as well as post-graduate professional development and training opportunities.

  1. Academics
  2. Business Services
  3. Commercial
  4. Compliance
  5. Cultivated
  6. Ecosystem
  7. Fermentation
  8. Industry
  9. Industry
  10. NGO's
  11. Plant-Based
  12. Production
  13. R&D
  14. Species-agnostic
  15. Workforce
Solutions Database

Producing animal-like fats through microbial fermentation

Microbial fermentation provides an efficient method for generating lipid molecules that are chemically identical to those produced by animals. Research efforts are needed to expand current knowledge about the process of engineering the appropriate metabolic pathways for the synthesis of animal lipids into microbial organisms well-suited for large-scale fermentation.

  1. 1 - Inception
  2. Academics
  3. Commercial
  4. Fermentation
  5. Host strain development
  6. R&D
  7. Raw Materials, Ingredients, & Inputs
  8. Research
  9. Science
  10. Species-agnostic
  11. Startups
  12. Target molecule selection
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Fat and moisture encapsulation for alternative protein products

Fat and moisture retention are critical to the organoleptic properties of meat and must be perfected across all alternative protein platforms. Solutions for encapsulating fat and moisture are necessary to ensure that these components are protected from damage or loss throughout manufacturing, storage, cooking, and mastication.

  1. 2 - Early adoption
  2. Academics
  3. Cultivated
  4. End product formulation & manufacturing
  5. End Products
  6. Fermentation
  7. Industry
  8. Plant-Based
  9. Production
  10. R&D
  11. Research
  12. Species-agnostic
  13. Startups