🚨 $5.8M for portable food allergen sensors

🇸🇬 Singapore’s Oatside, which makes oat milk designed for the Asian palate, raised $35 million in its ongoing Series B round, with the potential to reach $74 million. 

🧫 Israeli cultivated meat startup Ever After Foods received a $10 million investment from Pluri Inc. to further scale its technology, which includes a B2B version that demonstrates the natural production of muscle and fat tissues for various animal cells.

🔬 US-based Amulet secured $5.8 million Series A funding, in a round led by HealthX Ventures, for its portable food allergen sensors, which use rapid, on-site molecular detection technology to identify food allergens and other harmful substances.

🇫🇮 Collo, based in Finland, raised €5 million in a funding round co-led by Greentech Venture Capital and FORWARD.one. Its unique analyser can quickly characterise any type of liquid, and is designed to help food and beverage companies to reduce liquid losses and associated CO2 emissions.

🇦🇺 Australian startup Cauldron has been awarded AU$4.3 million from the federal government’s new AU$392 million Industry Growth Program to advance its continuous fermentation manufacturing platform, which will allow its partners to produce high-value ingredients at scale.

🇳🇿 Meal planning and grocery shopping app MenuAid, based in New Zealand, raised NZ$4 million pre-Series A funding and rebranded to Appetise. It will use the funds to move to a free model and further expand its operations.

🍄 UK-based Adamo Foods secured $2.5 million in a seed funding round co-led by UK Innovation Science and Seed Fund and Joyful Ventures. It will use the funds to further scale production of its clean-label mycelium steak.

🌾 Hedera-22, based in Belgium, raised €2 million to further develop its intelligent platform for the discovery of new biomolecules with bio-pesticide activity, designed to support sustainable agriculture.

🍺 South Carolina-based alcohol-free beverage brand Sechey secured undisclosed investment from InvestBev to expand its operations, including innovation within non-alcoholic beer, wine, spirits, functional beverages and cocktails.

🌶️ Chinese plant-based dairy giant Sichuan Viee Beverage Food Co., which makes beverages that are intended to complement the spicy cuisine typical of its home regions of Sichuan and Chongqing, received investment from L Catterton to further expand its operations.

🦪 Sea Gardener Inc. secured investment from the Climate Resilient Africa Fund to “reimagine North Africa’s shellfish export industry”, with a focus on Egypt’s Nile Delta.