Ever After Foods Acquires Fishway to Boost Cultivated Protein Push

Pluri's majority-owned food-tech subsidiary Ever After Foods announced it is expanding its cultivated-protein platform through the acquisition of Fishway and a parallel strategic investment, a move that bolsters the company's scientific depth and geographic reach in the rapidly growing alternative-protein sector.

The deal brings Ever After Foods three capabilities it did not previously hold in-house: aquatic cell biology expertise, animal-component-free growth media technology, and an established European scientific presence. Each of those assets addresses a distinct bottleneck that has slowed the cultivated seafood industry's path toward commercial scale.

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Animal-component-free media — the nutrient broth used to grow cells outside a living organism — is widely regarded as one of the costliest and most technically demanding hurdles in cultivated meat and seafood production. By internalizing that capability through Fishway, Ever After Foods signals an intent to reduce input costs and tighten control over its supply chain rather than rely on third-party suppliers.

The addition of a European foothold is equally strategic. Regulatory frameworks for novel foods in the European Union are distinct from those in the United States and Asian markets, and having scientists embedded on the continent could accelerate both compliance timelines and potential commercial partnerships across the region. The aquatic cell biology component also diversifies Ever After Foods beyond any single protein category, positioning the platform to address fish and seafood in addition to land-animal proteins.

The transaction reflects a broader consolidation trend in the food-tech space, where smaller, specialized startups with deep scientific niches are increasingly being absorbed by better-capitalized platforms seeking to compress development timelines. Continue reading at GlobalNewswire.