Opinion
Your runway is a hall of mirrors
A steady monthly burn can hide the bills that shorten your runway. Put the commitments and receipts on a calendar.
Latest analysis
Follow developments in food biotech and nutrition. See what changed, what supports the claim and what it could mean for your work.
Opinion
What investors aren't saying when they pass
A polite rejection is not a diagnosis. Seven questions to test against the evidence from your last fundraising conversations.
Opinion
Your cost curve is theatre. Here is what investors actually underwrite.
One bar is measured. The others are modelled. Make the difference visible before an investor asks.
Opinion
Plant-based 2.0 needs texture labs at the centre
The next generation needs sensory evidence, process capability and commercial discipline. A spending ratio alone cannot tell you who has them.
Opinion
Why food biotech platforms should start with an ingredient
Platforms are earned through repeatable commercial capability. A defined first ingredient makes that work concrete.
Opinion
Corporate pilot purgatory - how to tell if a pilot can actually become revenue
A pilot can produce useful evidence and binding commitments. Map what still separates the trial from the next buying decision.
Scale-upPreview
Precision fermentation: what your cost model needs to explain
A defensible cost estimate starts with titre, recovery, productivity and the assumptions connecting them to a sellable kilogram.
AI & intelligencePreview
Building an AI-first Food Biotech company
Where AI can help a small team research, draft and model, and where human judgement must remain accountable.
Food innovationPreview
Plant-based 2.0: the case for texture-led R&D
An editorial reading of Adam M. Adamek’s argument for putting technical capability at the centre of plant-based product development.
CEEPreview
The CEE desk: questions behind the map
Companies matter. So do the laboratories, production capabilities, capital and local knowledge connecting them.
Nutrition innovationPreview
A promising nutrition study is not a product brief
Before choosing an ingredient, separate the result observed in a study from the result your product needs to deliver.
AI & intelligencePreview
AI can speed up research. Keep the evidence trail.
A useful automation delivers a source you can inspect, the claim it supports and the uncertainty that still needs an editor.