A new report highlights the lack of funding support for alt-meat in Europe — but two recent events focused on advancing cultivated meat research may change that.
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Seems like every day, there’s a new headline about an alt-meat company closing a huge funding round — but that money isn’t coming from European investors.
European alt-meat companies only raised US$600 million in 2021 — a paltry sum compared to the more than US$9 billion that private European investors sunk into agri-food-tech companies overall (including crop and animal agriculture, farm robotics and food safety tech), according to…