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January 23, 2017
Univers Freebox – Xavier Niel, with its investment fund Kima Ventures, shareholder of NextProtein, an animal producer

The start-up NextProtein launches with 0.9 million euros as shares the Capital Finance of Echos . It is a new producer of insect-based animal feed components. Founded in October 2015 in Orsay, the start-up has an insect breeding operation. A 300 m 2 production facility , 40 km south of Tunis. Included in this equity, € 0.4 million from the Anaxago crowdfunding platform. The start-up can also count on new shareholders, business angels, as Xavier Niel with Kima Ventures, Jérôme Lecat and torque founder of Atelier Cologne.
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January 22, 2017
ITP News – €1.3m for nextProtein to Invest in Insects for Feed

NextProtein, a French-Tunisian agri-tech startup, specialised in producing animal feed from insect larvae has received €1.3 million in fundraising. This makes it possible to scale up production at its new expanded operations in 2017. The company uses Black Soldier Fly larvae and process them into valuable components for aquaculture, livestock and pet food, and agricultural fertiliser
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January 20, 2017
Business France – nextProtein, a Franco-Tunisian startup raises 1.3 M to accelerate its development

NextProtein has just announced that it has completed a seed fund raising of EUR 1.3 million for its innovation program in the field of insect feed materials for animal feed. The company uses an innovative bioconversion process to produce oil and fertilizer proteins on a reduced surface area and with considerably less water and energy than conventional farming methods, Reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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January 20, 2017
All About Feed – €1.3m for nextProtein to invest in insects for feed

This makes it possible to scale up production at its new expanded operations in 2017. The company uses Black Soldier Fly larvae and process them into valuable components for aquaculture, livestock and pet food, and agricultural fertiliser.
After reaching the 2016 daily milestone of producing 30 kg of insect larvae from 300 kg of fruit and vegetable waste, nextProtein aims to convert between five and 10 tonnes of organic waste into one tonne of protein and oil from its new 2500m2 production site and its 15-person team, in 2017.
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January 20, 2017
Maddyness – French startups raised 45.75 million euros from 14 to 20 January 2017

With 24 fundraisers recorded from 14 to 20 January, the week will have been more than fruitful for the French startups. However, while the amounts were relatively high last week (only one exercise was less than one million euros), this week we see ten levies close to one million euros.
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January 19, 2017
Aquafeed – Uber, Deliveroo investor backs French-Tunisian insect meal startup

French-Tunisian agri-tech startup nextProtein, which produces animal feedstock from insect larvae, has secured €1.3 million in fundraising to scale up its expanded operations in 2017. The company’s bioconversion process produces feedstock protein using significantly less land, water and energy resources, with less greenhouse gas emissions, than traditional agriculture, it said.
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January 19, 2017
Maddyness – nextProtein raises € 1.3 million to feed animals with insects

At a time when the agricultural industry is facing resource depletion, environmental degradation and the imperatives of climate change, new players are emerging in order to offer ever more sustainable and diversified techniques. This is the case of nextProtein , founded in 2015 by the couple Syrine Chaalala and Mohamed Gastli, and which raises larvae of black soldier flies which it transforms into components dedicated to animal feed, but also an organic fertilizer and Natural for agriculture.
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January 18, 2017
Les Echos – NextProtein se lance avec 0,9 M€

Un mois après la série C de 14,2 M€ signée par Ynsect, un autre producteur de composants alimentaires pour animaux à base d’insectes ouvre son capital. Il s’agit de NextProtein, fondé en octobre 2015 à Orsay et déjà aux commandes d’un outil de production de 300 m² situé à 40 km au sud de Tunis. NextProtein vient de récolter 0,9 M€ de fonds propres, dont 0,4 M€ sur la plateforme de crowdfunding Anaxago.
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