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Veggie ‘meat’ start-up backed by Nasa wins financing from tech moguls and Silicon Valley climate fund
A Chicago-based biotechnology company working with Nasa to develop a new form of plant-based protein fit for supporting space exploration has received US$33 million from venture capital firms, including an energy tech fund backed by Bill Gates, Jack Ma and Jeff Bezos.
Co-founder and chief executive Thomas Jonas who undertook business studies in the early 1990s at the international business school HEC Paris, said one application for the plant-based protein is as a meat substitute for use in traditional Chinese pork buns.