2023年3月20日

FoodLabs為首的2023年3月20日,一輪融資,進一步的投資者包括CPT資本,神功資本,即插即用,牛奶和蜂蜜企業和HackCapital PoLoPo進一步發展其專有技術種植土豆雞蛋蛋白:一種植物biofactory生產蛋白質可以用作功能性成分在食品工業中利用具有成本效益的蛋白質來源,以滿足食品工業的需要,滋養世界不斷增長的人口Rehovot 20.03.2023:以色列分子農業公司PoLoPo關閉了一輪1.75美元資金翻倍了發展專有技術在土豆種植動物蛋白——世界上最廣泛種植的non-cereal糧食作物。計劃輪由FoodLabs領導,進一步的投資者包括CPT資本,神功資本,即插即用,牛奶和蜂蜜企業和HackCapital。與新鮮的資金,PoLoPo將進一步擴大其核心團隊的世界級科學家和加速他們的研發努力為了提供原型在未來的一年半。PoLoPo開發了專有技術表達蛋白在一個可伸縮的土豆,具有成本效益的方式,以滿足食品行業的蛋白質需求和滋養世界不斷增長的人口。公司建立技術平台對蛋白質生產,開始與卵清蛋白(蛋白的蛋白質),目標266億美元的雞蛋蛋白市場以及對蛋清蛋白質替代品行業日益增長的需求。PoLoPo卵白蛋白將與“真正的”蛋卵清蛋白的功能、營養價值和蛋白質序列。“我們很高興贏得了一群這樣的著名和誌同道合的投資者”,瑪雅Sapir-Mir博士說。”的大量資金,我們的目標是達到幾個重要的裏程碑包括蛋白質豐富的馬鈴薯塊莖和卵白蛋白功能的樣品。”“我們要對世界產生更好的食物。分子農業技術,用於生產高質量的蛋白質,提供了一個巨大的機會,在與動物的方程和減少生產過程的碳足跡”博士說萊雅Liberman-Aloni生產在全球100多個國家和第三世界上最重要的糧食作物,馬鈴薯是豐富的,有彈性的,便宜,和多才多藝但未充分利用的食物來源。PoLoPo potato-to-protein通路商業的可伸縮性,因為植物生長要求相對較低的投資和易於升級的共同農業實踐。 “We’ve been very impressed by the disruptive potential of their platform technology and, most importantly, by the deep plant science expertise of PoLoPo's founders and their bold vision for the company”, said Christian Guba, “We believe they are set to complement the incumbents in Precision Fermentation by pioneering a simpler approach to develop proteins.” PoLoPo founders Dr. Maya Sapir-Mir and Dr. Raya Liberman-Aloni are plant metabolic engineers, experts in expression and targeting of functional proteins in plants. The co-founders met over 15 years ago, during their PhD studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and worked side by side for 6 years. PoLoPo has won the Coller startup competition FoodTech track, which took place in July 2022, thus securing its first investment from CPT Capital. In October 2022, PoLoPo were crowned winners of the FoodHack Demo Day as the startup with the most impact potential. About PoLoPo PoLoPo is a science based FoodTech startup using molecular farming technology that enables the production of real animal proteins without using any animals. PoLoPo is developing a plant to be used as a protein bio-factory. This plant will serve as a robust platform for high scale, easy to switch, custom-made production of proteins with egg protein being its first target to be produced in an edible plant. Using directed metabolic engineering techniques, while exploiting the full potential of plants as diverse metabolite and green protein factory, PoLoPo creates a potato plant able to produce considerable high amounts of free amino-acids, to be used as building blocks for high scale production of proteins in the potato tuber. About FoodLabs FoodLabs is the leading pan-European Early Stage VC investor and venture studio for food, sustainability and health. Based in Berlin, FoodLabs has built and invested in more than 50 early-stage FoodTech companies since 2016. We’re backing the most ambitious, purpose-driven entrepreneurs, who are committed to changing the world’s largest industry. FoodLabs has been an early investor in some of the most seminal, fastest-growing European FoodTech startups including Infarm, Meatable, Mushlabs, Sanity Group and Formo.