Simply put, Tierra is enabling customers to order proteins online that can make anything from antibodies to growth factor for a food product.
Its reagents are combined with the customer’s protein sequences, and put into a robotic platform to create the proteins.
We profiled Tierra Biosciences in 2018 after it rebranded from Synvitrobio and raised $2.6 million in new financing.
Prior to joining the company, Nemzek was chief commercial officer at Synthego Corp. where he led the commercial expansion and growth of its CRISPR genome engineering business.
The round had participation from new and existing investors, including Prosus Ventures, In-Q-Tel (IQT), Hillspire, Freeflow Ventures, Creative Ventures and Social Capital.
Cultivated Biosciences, a Swiss biotechnology food startup says it has solved this with the development of its yeast cream, derived from a specific type of oleaginous yeast, that mimics the texture and mouthfeel of traditional cream.
This method is also non-GMO and is easier to scale, said Lucie Rein, chief commercial officer at Cultivated Biosciences.
Cultivated Biosciences is designing its end product to go into consumer products, for example, like coffee creamers, milk and ice cream.
We also replaced the whitening agents, so we actually replace everything, and we stay stable.”Over the past year, Cultivated Biosciences has worked on scaling.
Cultivated Biosciences is joining them, having raised another $5 million recently.
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