This spring is seafood season for Meros! Our co-founder Tina Peneva will be on stage at both the Global Seafood Expo in Barcelona on April 21-23 and the Blue Food Innovation Summit in London on May 27-28, 2026! First up will be Barcelona, where Tina will be speaking on emerging seafood consumption trends in Japan […]
We are thrilled to welcome our newest research analyst, Hiroshi Yamagishi. Hiroshi has a background in international rural development with experience living and working in Europe and Egypt. He completed his International Master of Science in Rural Development from Ghent University in Belgium and has also spent time studying in Slovakia and Italy. Before Meros […]
Nodoka is about to finish his Master of Public Policy degree from the Hertie School in Berlin, Germany and had previously completed his undergraduate degree at Keio University with a degree in Environment and Information Studies. Nodoka has had a fascinating background and experience growing up in various countries, including graduating from high school at […]
Meros is excited to welcome our new summer research assistant, Tsukasa Iinishi! Tsukasa has just finished his third year at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business in Boston, with a focus on corporate innovation and economics. He has also been working at the Antimicrobial Discovery Center at Northeastern as a research assistant to support experiments, […]
In this final installment of the cellular agriculture series, Meros analyst Sachika Onaka turns to cultivated seafood and other emerging applications of cellular agriculture, including cultivated fat and cultivated chocolate. In earlier articles, we explored the development of the cultivated meat industry in Japan, focusing on startups and partnerships that are shaping the sector. Cultivated […]
We have a busy spring lined up and our team will be attending several great events in the US and EU! Connect with us if you’ll be at any of these events! We would love to meet others interested in innovation in the food, agriculture and ocean sectors to discuss developments in sustainability and business […]
Meros co-founder Lucia Vancura kicked off January at the Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture (TUCCA) Cellular Agriculture Innovation Day in Boston, eager to understand how investors were thinking about the cellular agriculture sector for 2025 and if it was really as pessimistic as it seemed. In this installment, we take a look at the […]
With the new year underway, we continue our snapshot series on Japan’s cultivated meat industry. In this installment, Meros analyst Sachika Onaka focuses on the overseas and Japanese regulatory landscape and reflect on key regulatory developments in 2024. Overseas regulatory landscape Singapore is the world leader in terms of implementing cultivated meat regulation. In 2020, […]
The Year of the Snake has arrived! We are ready to tackle the opportunities for transformation, growth and reinvention that the year can symbolize. We are so grateful for the clients, partners and team members who are on this journey with us. We wish all a prosperous Year of the Snake! Together we are creating […]
Discussions have been growing in recent years on cellular agriculture's potential role in improving food security as well as addressing consumer concerns, such as animal welfare and sustainability. In the last two years, Meros has been digging deeply into topics including novel and alternative protein sources. We continue to monitor developments in this industry and […]
Global interest in the role of regenerative agriculture and carbon farming continues to grow. There is deep interest in learning more about the potential of these approaches to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and mitigate climate change risks. And there is deep interest in learning how these areas will be an opportunity, or a […]
Meros is geared up and ready for our new summer research assistant Mako Irisumi. Welcome! Mako is an undergraduate student at Wellesley College in the US, with a major in Computer Science and also a student researcher this past year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) D-Lab. She previously interned with the Japanese development […]
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