Genuine Taste

Thrilled to share that we were recently interviewed by The Globe and Mail, Canada's most widely read newspaper, with the article featured on the front page of the business section! Huge thanks to Pippa Norman for the opportunity. Transparent conversations about alternative proteins—especially cellular agriculture—are more important than ever. In today’s political climate, where some are leveraging fear around novel ingredients for political gain, it’s critical to educate the public with facts. We’re proud to be part of this dialogue and to help shape the future of food with openness and integrity. https://lnkd.in/eAJZSsBR #cellag #novelfoods #synbio #biotech

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Women Leading Innovation: Celebrating Female Founders at D3 🚀✨ 💡 What if a female founder pitched her startup… as a man? Studies show women receive less than 2% of VC funding, often judged on risk, while men are judged on potential. Same idea. Same deck. Different gender. Different outcome. Entrepreneurship should be about innovation, not gender. ✊ This International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating the bold, brilliant, and resilient female founders at District 3 who are breaking barriers, defying the odds, and driving change: Game-Changing Women-Led Startups Karina Gasbarrino, PhD, Co-Founder, Sonaro ✨ Using AI to revolutionize stroke risk diagnosis ✨ Won $150,000 at SheBoot’s pitch competition Jennifer Côté, Co-Founder, Opalia ✨ Pioneering cellular agriculture to create cow-free milk ✨ Shared her vision with PM Justin Trudeau at Francotech in Paris Teresa D'Agostino, Co-Founder, PAWSOME Concierge ✨ Redefining luxury pet care with a premium concierge service ✨ Partnered with Hotel X Toronto + built a 75+ caregiver network Emily Farrar, Co-Founder, Genuine Taste ✨ Revolutionizing sustainable food with cultivated fat: enhancing the taste, texture, and aroma of alternative proteins to drive mass adoption of ethical food ✨ Named one of the top 20 women leading climate tech by Climate Insider Marina Massingham, Co-Founder, Aifred Health ✨ Secured Health Canada approval for AI-powered decision support in depression treatment Chelsea Bahenduzi, Divine Ndizihiwe Kayitare, Seynabou Niang, CPI/CEP & Aimée N., Co-Founders, Abraider ✨ Transforming hair braiding with sustainable, user-friendly devices that make styling faster, easier, and more accessible ✨ Winner of the Most Innovative Award at GCS Innovation Fund Demo Day Rebecca Aldworth, Co-Founder, Harvest Moon ✨ Transforming plant-based dairy with precision fermentation ✨ Named one of Quebec’s Top FoodTech Innovators Rislaine Benkelfat, MD, MBA, Co-Founder, DocTocToc ✨ Bringing healthcare to underserved children through a pediatric mobile clinic ✨ Aiming to treat 1,500 children per year starting in 2025 ✨ Partnered with The Montreal Children’s Hospital Foundation & McGill University Marie-Claire H., Founder, Ozex ✨ Supporting new parents through a mobile app designed to strengthen relationships and ease the transition into parenthood ✨ Officially launched Ozex at Café de la Société des arts technologiques (SAT) ✨ Collaborating with Université de Sherbrooke on parental well-being research These women are shaping the future in AI, foodtech, healthcare, sustainability, and beyond. Their success is a testament to the power of diverse leadership—but there’s still work to be done to close the gender gap in entrepreneurship. ✨ To the many other incredible women founders at D3 who continue to innovate, inspire, and push boundaries—this celebration is for you, too! #IWD2025 #WomenEntrepreneurs Concordia University

We have a position open for a stem cell scientist (MITACS Postdoc) in Sydney, Nova Scotia. It is an ideal position for a recent PhD graduate from a Canadian university (last two years) interested in transferring to industry. Please apply here or write to us at careers@genuinetaste.co. https://lnkd.in/dqBufWpA #biotech, #biotechjobs, #jobs, #cellagriculture,#stemcell,#postdoc

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Our Rhea Sealy spoke with our recent Invest Together in Climate Innovation Top Venture Genuine Taste‘s Emily Farrar about the purpose behind the company, connecting with the investor community and her advice for other founders. If the climate + food-focused work they’re doing sounds compelling to you as an investor, we have good news - they’re raising! If you’re an accredited investor it’s not too late to be part of the next Invest Together in Women-Led Impact - learn more at https://lnkd.in/gYVWPheb or reach out to Nathan Percy asap. #investinwomen #impactinvesting #climateaction

Here's what's new and next to kickstart 2025 📈 The UK's new "grocery tax," formally the Extended Producer Responsibility, is expected to increase household shopping bills by up to £1.4 billion annually by charging retailers and manufacturers for packaging waste 📉 Vertical farming startup Plenty Unlimited Inc. is negotiating a $125 million funding round that would drastically reduce its valuation from $1.9 billion to less than $15 million 🔐 Sundial Foods has closed down but sold its proprietary protein-structuring technology to an undisclosed European food company. 💊 A study from Cornell and Numerator reveals that US households with at least one GLP-1 user reduced their grocery spending by about 6% within 6 months of taking the medication 🧬 Inari raised $144 million in a Series G round to advance its AI-powered SEEDesign platform for editing plant DNA to boost yields 🔍 Nuritas secured $42M Series C funding to scale its AI-powered Magnifier platform, which accelerates the discovery of plant-based peptides 👨🌾 Fermata secured a $10 million Series A round from Raw Ventures 🔬 Biosphere, developing UV-sterilised bioreactors, emerged from stealth with $8.8 million in seed funding and a $1.5 million contract with the US Department of Defense. 🧀 Standing Ovation is joining forces with Ajinomoto, Frozen Foods Europe to produce its animal-free casein protein at industrial scale ✔️ Bon Vivant achieved self-affirmed GRAS status for its precision-fermented whey protein in the US 🥚 Onego Bio submitted a GRAS notification to the FDA for Bioalbumen® 💦 Full Nature Farms unveiled the Rocket 2.0 Smart Irrigation Platform 📝 The Better Butchers signed a letter of intent with Genuine Taste to develop hybrid meat combining cell-cultured beef fat with mycelium-based proteins 🫖 KAYTEA launched Hydro Infusions, a new range of electrolyte-infused tea blends for hydration and energy   🍔 Squeaky Bean debuted 2 market-first products: ready-to-eat flavoured tofu slices and the Super Grain & Vegetable Burger ❌ Atlantic Natural Foods terminated its acquisition agreement with Above Food 🌭 The FDA released new draft guidance that plant-based food labels replace generic terms like "meatless sausage" or "plant-based burger" with more specific descriptors such as "chickpea sausage" or "soy-based burger" 🍝 Plant-based meat brand THIS™ launched its Sausages at 19 IKEA restaurants across the UK 🍫 Katjes Fassin GmbH + Co. KG is in a legal battle with European rivals like Lindt and Nestlé to defend its patent for using hydrolysed oat flour in vegan chocolates New year, new job with Revo Foods, Semion, Gullspång Re:food, Volta Greentech, Finally Foods 👀 The TL;DR of 2024’s cultivated meat research after reading 70 papers by Tarika 🇳🇱 Join us at the first FoodHack Meetup of 2025. 💦 Calling drought-solution startups, Beanstalk Ventures opened applications for their latest program 💡 Opinion: Why AgTech is a quiet revolution in the making - Sarai

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Genuinely thrilled to announce that The Better Butchers and Genuine Taste will be collaborating on some product development for a hybrid meat product utilizing cultivated fat. Excited to see (and taste) the results of this partnership! https://lnkd.in/gtcHiF7W Celeste Trujillo Amelia Blandford Emily Farrar Pooya Mamaghani, PhD

Very excited to share that Genuine Taste and The Better Butchers are collaborating to develop a novel recipe for a meat alternative. The demonstration product will leverage the benefits of our innovative ingredients - mycelium-based protein and cultivated fat - to create a delicious, flavourful product. —-------------------- The Better Butchers is a Vancouver, BC-based company that develops and manufactures innovative meat alternatives, leveraging fungi technology to create products that are both healthy and flavorful. The company's first product line, launched in March, features a plant-based ground meat made from a blend of plant proteins and culinary mushrooms. Free of the top ten allergens and crafted without fillers or additives, The Better Butchers' products are naturally seasoned with herbs and spices to enhance their taste. Genuine Taste is a Canadian company creating real animal fat, without harm to animals. Genuine Taste has developed a technology that is uniquely tailored for fat production, enabling us to produce cultivated fat at the scale and price needed for a food product. Our technology enables us to reduce harm to the environment and animals without compromising on taste, aroma, nutrition, and functionality. #cellag #alternativeprotein #partnership