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Mondelez’s SnackFutures Ventures invests in Celleste Bio to scale cell-culture cocoa production

Mondelez’s SnackFutures Ventures invests in Celleste Bio to scale cell-culture cocoa production

05-Dec-2024
By Elizabeth Crawford

Cocoa-tech startup Celleste Bio may soon produce the same amount of cocoa butter from just one to two beans as traditional production methods currently produce from four tons of cocoa pods, thanks in part to an infusion of $4.5 million in seed funding...

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