Swiss Cell-based Startup Mirai Foods Secures CHF 2.1M for Product Development

Swiss Cell-based Startup Mirai Foods Secures CHF 2.1M for Product Development

Zurich-based clean meat startup, Mirai Foods, gets massive cash injection to accelerate its product development and transform its prototype into a commercial product.

Founded in 2019, Mirai Foods is a cultured meat producer that keeps the cells as they naturally occur in the animal without using genetic modification in the process. It focuses on three areas: bringing cellular agriculture products to the market quickly and safely, providing customers with better value, and designing products that offer superior health benefits.

To reach these goals, the company needs to accelerate research and develop its first commercial product, starting with beef due to its massive carbon footprint. For this to happen, seven investors raised a total of CHF 2.1M in a first-round financing fund, with backers including Paulig Group and Team Europe.

Our mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to producing food that is environmentally, ethically and economically sustainable. And we want to do it as cleanly and naturally as possible since this is important to many consumers and regulators, particularly in Europe.

Christoph Mayr

Co-Founder and CEO, Mirai Foods

Find out more:

Mirai Foods AG
Einsiedlerstrasse 29
CH-8820 Wädenswil
Switzerland

+41 61 204 53 08

For inquiries, you can contact them here.

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Spanish Food Delivery Service Glovo Signs Million Euro Deal with Swiss Firm Stoneweg for Expansion

Spanish Food Delivery Service Glovo Signs Million Euro Deal with Swiss Firm Stoneweg for Expansion

Stoneweg plans to build and revamp some of its real estate locations in key Glovo markets to expand the latter’s delivery-only convenience stores.

Spain-based food delivery service Glovo has signed a deal with Switzerland-based real estate firm Stoneweg. An investment of €100 million will be made to help Glovo expand its network of ghost convenience stores, as it occupies Stoneweg real estate locations for an unspecified period. This is key in Glovo’s goal to have 100 different sites by the end of 2021.

Glovo’s focus on quick convenience store delivery — or “Q-Commerce” — is partly in response to the pandemic’s impact on how consumers get food items and household goods. Restrictions around leaving homes made people more inclined to order groceries, snacks, and household goods for delivery, rather than venture out.

There is great promise in these dark stores as the future of retail. Bloomberg reports that Glovo’s Q-commerce orders have grown 300 per cent from one year ago and plans to hire 500 people by the end of the year. 

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Mybacs: Improving Health with Microbiome

Mybacs: Improving Health with Microbiome

Aiming to revolutionize intestinal healthcare, Mybacs focuses on the development of innovative and highly-dosed synbiotic supplements tailored to individual needs.

Mybacs, a Swiss biotechnology company, specializes in human microbiome to help people with intestinal and digestive problems and improve overall health. Their synbiotic product, Dailybacs, contains selected bacterial cultures, prebiotics from plant extracts, valuable minerals, and vitamins. And this unique formulation can support our bodies beyond digestion.

The idea started when founders Carl-Philipp von Polheim and Sebastian Wahl were trying to develop a treatment for traveler’s diarrhea. But the endless research into microbial bacteria led to the creation of Mybacs in 2018. Because they believe that better health starts with better ingredients and that microbiome is the mirror of our health.

The Mybacs team is constantly working with scientists and doctors from all over the world to keep updated with new research. This is their way to ensure they give their customers only the best product.

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mybacs GmbH
Baarerstrasse 135
6300 Zug
Switzerland

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NTN Innovation Boosters: New Initiatives Supporting Open Innovation

NTN Innovation Boosters: New Initiatives Supporting Open Innovation

In a mission to spur innovation activities through concrete idea development and testing, NTN Innovation Booster cultivates a culture of open innovation to build the next generations’ Swiss Food Ecosystems.

NTN Innovation Booster – Swiss Food Ecosystems, powered by Innosuisse, is an initiative supporting open innovation. The focus on open innovation shall support the development of new solutions to agrifood challenges ranging from GHG emissions, food waste and nutrition. And in doing so, Swiss companies get a competitive advantage and create important added value for the Swiss economy and society.

CHF 21.3 Mio was funded to the initiative to develop 1000 radically innovative ideas from 2021-2024. Out of which, they expect to support 600 new innovative ideas and enable 200 follow-up projects.

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Discover how to boost your innovation process and prepare all your questions for the upcoming NTN Innovation Booster. You only need 30 minutes to know how you can be part of the solution for the next generation’s food ecosystem.

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  • 08. Feb. 2021, 17-17:30 (FR)
  • 15. Feb. 2021, 17-17:30 (EN)
  • 18. Feb. 2021, 17-17:30 (FR)
  • 04. March 2021, 11:45 -12:15 (EN)

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Suisse Agro Food Leadinghouse
Passage du Cardinal 11
1700 Fribourg

innoboost@swissfoodecosystems.ch

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Swiss E-commerce Platform Farmy Sees Rapid Growth During Covid-19

Swiss E-commerce Platform Farmy Sees Rapid Growth During Covid-19

Farmy, the largest selection of fresh produce in Switzerland, achieved huge growth of 170 per cent in 2020 amid the pandemic.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Farmy has seen high consumer demand for healthy and local food delivered conveniently to their doorsteps. This resulted in an almost triple turnover in 2020 from 9.7 Mio CHF to 26 Mio CHF, all while saving 400 tons of CO2.

To ensure demands for security and contactless transactions are met, the company had to expand its logistics; increasing the workforce from 133 to 220 employees, moving into larger confectioning centres and investing in additional vehicles and refrigeration capacity. Meanwhile, Farmy Co-CEO Tobias Schubert praises his team’s flexibility and excellent internal IT competence that ultimately helped them achieve this great feat.

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AgroSustain: Using biological fungicides and coatings to reduce food waste and support organic food production

AgroSustain: Using biological fungicides and coatings to reduce food waste and support organic food production

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AgroSustain is a one-stop-shop solution for biological plant protection. Based at the Agroscope Institute of Changins (State of Vaud), the company aims at reducing food waste while ensuring everyone has access to healthy foods.

As the world focuses even more on sustainable and organic food production, AgroSustain offers to extend the freshness of crops by more than 20 days. This results in a significant drop in food waste, the third-largest producer of greenhouse gases in the world. Its first product, AgroShelf+, prevents mould from attacking crops, post-harvest, without affecting the taste.

The idea first started with co-founder and CEO Olga Dubey when she first learned about anti-fungal compounds. She wanted to offer a natural product to the market that could potentially replace chemical solutions while ensuring the safety of humans and biodiversity.

Meanwhile, AgroSustain’s research team of highly qualified PhDs with expertise in chemistry, plant biochemistry, and molecular and evolutionary biology, are working closely with institutions like the University of Lausanne and Agroscope to develop products for pre-harvest crops.

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AgroSustain
Agroscope, Batiment AO, Route de Duillier 50
Nyon, Vaud 1260, CH 

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