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– Singapore-based cell-cultivated food tech startup Umami Bioworks has registered two pet food ingredients with E.U. regulators as it prepares to commercialize its pet food in Europe.
Product Manager Gayathri Mani told Green Queen Media that she believed the company could launch its pet food, which includes cell-cultivated seafood, in the E.U. as soon as Q2 2026.
Mani also said that the company had expanded on its previous partnership with Oakland, California, U.S.A.-based Friends & Family Pet Food Company.
“We have signed an MoU with Friends & Family Pet Food Company to bring cultivated seafood-based pet food to market, with initial launches planned in Singapore, the U.K., and the E.U.,” she said.
– The United States National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A.-based cultivated seafood company Atlantic Fish Co. a USD 305,000 (EUR 260,000) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant for scaling its cell-cultivated whitefish.
“This NSF award is more than just capital; it’s validation from rigorous scientific reviewers," Atlantic Fish Co. Co-Founder and CEO Doug Grant said. "It represents the culmination of over a year of foundational research and development and proposal development.”
With the grant, the cellular agriculture company will have over USD 700,000 (EUR 597,000) of non-dilutive funding, which the company called “a critical accomplishment during a capital-constrained period for early-stage deep tech startups.”
Atlantic Fish Co. was previously the recipient of a SBIR grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
