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The plant protein that could push meat off your plate (wapo.st)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I doubt the headline is accurate as far a meat lovers go, but this was pretty amazing to read. Looking into the company further after reading the article, I found it's still only in round B of series funding, so it's not yet moved out of initial investment rounds and a ways off from making the initial public offering (IPO) stage. Pretty amazing they have done so much since beginning in 2016. According to CBInsights, to date they have a modest 56.1M invested in the company. The claim that "duckweed may become humanity’s first new major crop in more than a century," seems farfetched but at the rate they are advancing the tech, quite possible if investment holds imho.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Duckweed is already eaten in a few places. Interesting to see them using it to extract Rubisco on a large scale. Hope they get all the kinks figured out. Long live plant proteins.