C16 Biosciences creates sustainable ingredients for consumer goods, focusing on the beauty, personal care, home care, and food product markets. The company uses a unique biomanufacturing platform to produce ingredients that perform well while being environmentally friendly. This helps address issues like supply and price volatility, as well as the demand for sustainable products from consumers and regulators. C16 Biosciences primarily serves consumer goods manufacturers, providing them with high-quality ingredients that meet the growing need for effective and eco-friendly products. Operating on a B2B model, the company sells its ingredients to manufacturers, who then incorporate them into their products for consumers. C16 Biosciences aims to decarbonize consumer products and support the health of the planet while fulfilling the needs of its clients.

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Australian startup Nourish Ingredients has announced a collaboration with dairy giant Fonterra to accelerate the development of dairy products with fats produced via fermentation.Nourish, which is developing a range of high-impact, low-inclusion ‘animalic’ fats in fermentation tanks, will work with Fonterra on Creamilux, a lipid produced by a genetically engineered microbe that “recreates the rich, creamy mouthfeel, taste and emulsification properties of dairy fat.”As part of their collaboration, Fonterra and Nourish will explore the potential of Creamilux “as a key ingredient to unlock functionality while preserving the delicious taste of traditional dairy” across a range of categories including cheese, cream, and butter.The partners will also explore opportunities where Nourish Ingredients’ fats can enhance non-dairy categories such as bakery that traditionally rely on dairy fats, said Nourish CEO James Petrie, a crop metabolic engineer who worked as a research scientist at Australia’s national science agency CSIRO before co-founding Nourish​ ​with Ben Leita in early 2020.“This collaboration balances our passion for creating innovative ingredients with hard-nosed applications to unlock massive product opportunities. We are overcoming specific animal ingredient bottlenecks to optimize current animal-based food production capacity without losing quality.”Jeremy Hill, chief science and technology officer at Fonterra, added: “Dairy will always be at the core of our business… At the same time, ingredients produced through emerging technologies can work seamlessly in and alongside our dairy products, expanding the range of products and choices we can offer to customers and consumers.”Fats from fermentationNourish is one of a growing number of startups using microbial fermentation to make tailored fats including Yali Bio, Melt&Marble, ÄIO, c16 Bio, Circe, Seminal Bio, NoPalm Ingredients, Zero Acre Farms and Clean Food Group.Other startups are making cell-cultured fat by growing animal fat cells in a bioreactor (Hoxton Farms, Mission Barns​​, Believer Meats);​ while some are playing around with the structure of plant oils through emulsions (Lypid), oleogels (Shiru, Motif FoodWorks), and oil structuring technology (Fattastic).Speaking to AgFunderNews at the recent SynBioBeta conference in San Jose, Petrie said the economics of fats from fermentation stand up if you’re making high-impact, low-inclusion products: “There are some fats and oils in meat and dairy that are really signature that you associate with a well-cooked piece of meat or a dairy product. What we do at Nourish Ingredients is try and ignore all the boring fats which you could otherwise get from plants and focus on the really potent and important molecules we can deliver via fermentation.”Low inclusion ratesHe added: “We have our R&D in Australia and a pilot facility in Singapore that lets us do meaningful quantities for our partners to use in internal testing. For commercial scale production, we’ve already identified partners who can do that for us. But we don’t need huge bioreactors as our ingredients are used at a very low inclusion rate, so we’ve got relatively low-volume fermentation from co-manufacturers, and we then take that material and do some critical value-add steps.”To date, Nourish has raised about US$40 million, he said. “But it is very challenging in the current environment, especially in the alternative protein space, which is getting absolutely hammered

Designer Fats Startup Nourish Ingredients Collaborates With Dairy Giant Fonterra On Fats From Fermentation

The race is on to develop ‘designer’ fats for the next generation of food products. But will fats  oils produced by microbes in fermentation tanks ever be a cost-effective proposition?. The answer, says Australian startup Nourish Ingredients, is that it depends. Attempting to produce a drop-in replacement for a commodity fat such as palm oil using microbial fermentation clearly makes no economic sense right now, says cofounder James Petrie. But if you can produce high-potency molecules that can be used at sub-1% inclusion rates to dramatically transform the flavor and cooking experience of a plant-based burger, for example, the equation is quite different. Nourish Ingredients’ first two ingredients are Tastilux, which can deliver an “authentic animal taste, aroma and natural cooking reactions” at very low inclusion rates in alt meat; and Creamilux, a lipid that “recreates the rich, creamy mouthfeel, taste and emulsification properties of dairy fat.”

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Deep tech and high fashion rarely appear in the same sentence — a point Nicolaj Reffstrup hopes to have a hand in changing. Reffstrup is best known as the co-founder of quirky-meets-über-cool fashion label GANNI, which he founded with his wife Ditte more than 20 years ago in Copenhagen. Nicolaj stepped down from his CEO role at the company in 2018 to focus on planetary responsibility at the company. He’s also one half of the founding team of Look Up Ventures, an investment platform that backs startups in energy, carbon, food, and, of course, materials science

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C16 Biosciences, makers of Palmless™, the platform for sustainable palm oil alternatives, is ramping up its capabilities in the food category, fueled

C16 Biosciences, makers of Palmless™, ramps up in food fueled by fresh funding

C16 Biosciences, a startup focused on developing a sustainable palm oil alternative, has raised $1M in Venture funding led by Elemental Excelerator.

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C16 Biosciences, a NYC-based maker of Palmless(TM), a platform for sustainable palm oil alternatives, raised $3.5M in Grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as well as a $1m investment from Elemental Excelerator.

C16 Biosciences Raises USD 4.5M Grant and Equity

C16 Biosciences raises $4.5M in Grant and equity.

C16 Biosciences Raises $4.5M in Grant and Equity

C16 Biosciences, a startup dedicated to creating sustainable alternatives to palm oil, has received an investment of $3.5 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Invests $3.5M in Sustainable Palm Oil Alternative Startup

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--C16 Biosciences, makers of Palmless™, the platform for sustainable palm oil alternatives, is ramping up its capabilities in the food category, fueled by a $3.5 million grant from the Bill  Melinda Gates Foundation as well as a $1 million investment from Elemental Excelerator. C16 Biosciences will use the designated funding from the Gates Foundation to expand the Palmless™ platform by working with non-agriculturally derived feedstocks to produce food-grade oils and fats. The global edible oils industry is projected to reach $870 billion by 2050, but the industry’s growth will be limited by insufficient arable land for oilseed crops to grow. C16 Biosciences has developed an innovative biomanufacturing process, leveraging yeast rather than plants, to produce oils and fats using fermentation. The company, supported by the new grant, will expand its fermentation platform to leverage next-generation feedstocks, which would enable a novel approach to food security, unlocking a circular economy model capable of producing food products and ingredients without dependence on arable land. With this grant, to be received over 3 years, C16 Biosciences will hire additional research and development staff

C16 Biosciences, Makers Of Palmless™, Ramps Up In Food Fueled By Fresh Funding

On November 9th, C16 Biosciences was awarded the World Cell-base Innovation Award for "Best Cell-based Ingredient".

C16 Biosciences, makers of Palmless(TM), ramps up in food fueled by fresh funding

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