潜水简介：
- 通过发酵制作自然食品的植物植物，在A系列资金回合中筹集了1,450万美元。这项投资由DSM Venturing领导，还包括Ginkgo Bioworks，Cibus Fund和Trendlines Agrifood Fund。以前的几个投资者也参加了会议。
- 这家以色列公司表示,其发酵侦探hnology, which currently operates at semi-industrial scale, will use the investment to expand its natural colors for use in a range of products from food to cosmetics as it awaits regulatory approval in both the U.S. and Europe.
- Both the funds and the backing of biotech giants DSM and Ginkgo will help Phytolon scale its products as it looks to secure a larger footprint in the natural colors space.
Dive Insight:
自然色是食品空间的重要组成部分。虽然CPGS更广泛地采用花的时间比许多人预期的时间更长，消费者对干净标签项目的需求仍然得到广泛感受。近三分之二的成年人说，食品或饮料项目中的食材至少对他们的购买产生适度的影响。2021调查from the International Food Information Council.
由在该领域创新的公司驱动的驱动的，创造更少的化学物质的颜料的努力继续蓬勃发展。
GNT Group继续扩展其基于植物的前莓阵容（使用水果，蔬菜和食用植物制造），包括更多颜色，包括由螺旋藻和姜黄制成的绿色阴影。Spirulina is also the driving force behind Israeli startup Gavan, which developed a natural blue coloring that it计划开始商业生产in early 2023.
Phytolon成立于2018年，迄今已筹集了2010万美元根据Crunchbase。Its production process makes its natural colors unique. Its portfolio of natural colors — featuring oranges, yellows, purples and pinks —are developedby producing betalain pigments through precision fermentation. Betalains, common in natural coloring, are主要在红色甜菜根和刺梨等植物中发现。
This process can allow large amounts of natural colors to be produced in a quicker and less costly fashion, compared to extracting colors from raw materials. Its technology is licensed through the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Ginkgo Bioworks’ participation in this round comes through in-kind services to use its foundry platform, which helps companies create organisms that best serve their needs for product development. The biotech companyannounced its partnership with Phytolon为了帮助公司扩展并在今年早些时候收集成分领域的更多连接。
Phytolon董事会负责人史蒂夫·杜宾（Steve Dubin）拥有DSM的历史。近二十年来，他一直是DSM于2011年收购的Martek Biosciences的首席执行官。他还曾担任DSM营养产品的高级顾问。Phytolon在新闻稿中说，他与生物技术公司合作的经验有助于促进资金回合。
“I believe this investment round and DSM's participation in Phytolon will accelerate the commercialization of Phytolon's proprietary palette of sustainable food colors that will provide important benefits to both food producers and consumers,” Dubin said.
Royal DSM’s interest in the company comes a month after itannounced its merger with Firmenich价值210亿美元。DSM说新闻稿它的新食品和饮料成分臂专注于天然，清洁标签和可持续产品 - 植物生产线的三个属性。DSM可以使用Phytolon来帮助发展这一新部门，同时通过其现有网络帮助Phytolon吸引CPG和分销商。
