Better Bioeconomy

How a Precision Fermentation Startup Got an Ingredient Giant to Scale Its Protein

TurtleTree's Fengru Lin on winning over Novonesis, selling to partners versus customers, and building a category through its own supplement brand

Oct 7 • Eshan Samaranayake

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Who Gets Paid When Nutrition Enters Healthcare?

Evidence can get nutrition into healthcare. The companies controlling access to clinicians, patients and payers are better placed to capture the value.

Oct 1 • Eshan Samaranayake

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September 2026

Why Food Tech Is a Healthspan Bet

Replicator VC's Steve Simitzis on programmable nutrition, backing molecules with existing evidence, and making their benefits affordable at population…

Sep 17 • Eshan Samaranayake

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Rage Bait and EPG: How David Protein Engineered a $2.25 Billion Valuation in 2 Years

David Protein's parent company, Medici Brands, recently reached a >$2 billion valuation, becoming one of the fastest CPG brands to do so. How did they…

Sep 9 • Eshan Samaranayake

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How an Ingredient Giant Turns Longevity Science Into Products

dsm-firmenich's Vincent van Buul on the shift from lifespan to cellspan, why the dose has to fit the format, and what separates a real longevity…

Sep 7 • Eshan Samaranayake

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How Coffee Made Without Coffee Became an Ingredient Business

Prefer's Jake Berber on selling price certainty, building for the mass market, and what it takes to close deals with large F&B brands and manufacturers

Sep 2 • Eshan Samaranayake

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August 2026

Where Food Companies See Opportunity in Metabolic Health

What recent research from Tate & Lyle, ADM, Kerry, Cargill and others tells us about the opportunity beyond GLP-1s.

Aug 24 • Eshan Samaranayake

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We Can Measure More of the Body Than We Know How to Use

Measuring what happened is getting easier. Knowing what it means and what to do about it is harder. Nutrition is where that gap gets more difficult.

Aug 20 • Eshan Samaranayake

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How Physical AI Agents Automate Harvest Timing and Pollination

Polybee's Siddharth Jadhav on delivering ROI inside one crop cycle, running autonomous drone fleets across multiple countries, and earning a grower's…

Aug 11 • Eshan Samaranayake

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Why Three Industries Wanted the Same $3.8B Nutrition Brand

P&G agreed to pay $3.8B for a premium nutrition brand growing 30% a year, six days after reporting 1% growth of its own. Who else wanted it, and what…

Aug 6 • Eshan Samaranayake

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July 2026

The Healthspan Shift and Who Is Capturing It

As the focus on human health shifts from extending lifespan to healthspan, seven ways companies are claiming it and what the incumbents are buying.

Jul 30 • Eshan Samaranayake

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The Ingredient Giants Are Flexing Their Scaling Muscle

Also: Savor's $32M CO2 butter with AAK, Rize's $31M for low-emission rice, and Japan's $6.2B new-foods bet

Jul 23 • Eshan Samaranayake

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