![[ProFuse in Times of Israel] Affordable lab-grown meat is coming closer to your plate](https://blog.ourcrowd.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/the-times-of-israel-NEW.jpg)
New food technology promises to end the slaughter and processing of billions of farm animals, and the havoc it wreaks on the environment. But cultivating meat in a lab from animal cells is an extremely expensive and time-consuming process. Read more...
Read More![[ProFuse in FoodNavigator-USA] More meat, more quickly: Could ProFuse Technology’s small molecule cocktail help to transform the economics of cultivated meat?](https://blog.ourcrowd.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/foodnav-usa1.jpg)
There is no silver bullet that will singularly transform the economics of cell-cultured/cultivated meat, but technology developed by Israeli startup ProFuse Technology that dramatically speeds up the muscle fiber production process and enhances production capacity – albeit in a laboratory setting – is generating excitement in a nascent industry that must increase yields and cut costs if it is to achieve commercial viability. Read more...
Read More![[ProFuse in Israel 21c] Surprise discovery may lead to affordable cultivated steak](https://blog.ourcrowd.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Israel21C_20Y_Logo_web.png){kind=logo}
In the future, the ideal steak will be sizzling, charbroiled – and probably made from cultivated meat. However, companies that produce cell-based meat are challenged to make production affordable. Recently, researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science stumbled upon a solution that could cut the cost of cultivated meat in half. Read more...
Read More![[ProFuse in PR Newswire] ProFuse Technology received $1.25M from Fresh Start FoodTech Incubator](https://blog.ourcrowd.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/PR_newswire.jpg)
ProFuse Technology was established by Fresh Start FoodTech in the north of Israel, is supported by The Israeli Innovation Authority, and is operated by the Tnuva, Israel’s leading food company, Tempo, a leading beverage company, OurCrowd’s investment platform and the global Agrifood VC, Finistere Ventures. The company’s unique expertise is the optimization of the differentiation and fusion stage of cultured meat, which accounts for ~50% of its production costs. Read more...
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