A £10m funding package to accelerate the UK’s first large-scale industrial insect farm could provide a boost to the sustainability of the country’s aquaculture sector

Three of the firms, Alchemy Foodtech, Manna Foods Co, and HydroNeo GmBH, were all recent graduates of Thai Union-backed food tech accelerator SPACE-F

Protenga has closed its latest round of seed investment, raising funds with UK agritech company Roslin Technologies and the investment arm of Enterprise Singapore, SEEDS Capital

By Neil Ramsden

The feed company is confident that developments in alternative aquafeed ingredients won't be set back, even though farmers look set to be squeezed for the next year or more

'We have worked hard to become the most cost-efficient player, and this fundraising will enable nextProtein to emerge as a prominent industry-shaping company for the decade'

By Dan Gibson

The project is run in collaboration with local feedmill Unga Group, where Victory Farms is keen to ramp up production

Thai Union has committed $30m to funding alternative protein innovations, and already invested in Israeli insect feed startup Flying Spark

Protix, which opened one of the world's largest insect feed factories last June, will use Rabobank's investment to fund its international expansion

By Jason Smith

'There’s a lot of demand for trials to fight white spot, EMS and other shrimp diseases. So this allows us to be a lot more active' -- John Buchanan, Center for Aquaculture Technologies

Days after announcing the launch of algal-fed trout at Supermarche Match, Skretting said it was launching trout combining Veramaris algal oil with insects from InnovaFeed