Meros Calendar: Where we will be in Spring 2025!
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 […]
Cellular Ag Series: Private funding declining, but optimism remains for other models of support
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 […]
Welcome Mako Irisumi, our summer research assistant!
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 […]
A festive fall welcome to our newest research assistant Sachika Onaka Adcock!
A big welcome to our newest full-time fall research assistant, Sachika Onaka Adcock! Sachika is a recent graduate of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia where she studied Physiology and Earth Sciences. Sachika spent her childhood between Australia and Himeji in the western area of Japan and is ready to start her career off in Tokyo. […]
Come join Meros at the Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit, Singapore, October 31- Nov 2, 2023
We are incredibly pleased to be partnering with the Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit in Singapore, to be held October 31 – Nov 2, 2023. Our goal is help bring more perspectives and voices from Japan's food and agriculture innovation scene into the lively debates in Singapore. Join us there! We’ll be happy to introduce you […]
Meros Calendar: Where can we meet this fall?
Meros will be busy attending some of the most exciting events in the region this season and looking to connect with others interested in innovation, sustainability and business growth in food, agriculture and ocean businesses. Connect with us if you'll be at any of these events! We are pleased to be a partner of the […]
Improving seafood freshness at the port markets of Phu Quoc, Vietnam with Japanese seafood technology pilot
For three weeks in July and August, Meros senior analyst Hiroki Seki dove into the Vietnamese seafood industry, moving from Phu Quoc Island, the largest island in Vietnam and a part of Kien Giang province, to Rach Gia, the capital city of Kien Giang province, to Ho Chi Minh City, interviewing seafood experts, visiting fish […]
Meros welcomes Daijiro Hata as our newest full-time research analyst!
Meros has a new team member! Welcome, Daijiro Hata! Daijiro joined us this summer and is already jumping into projects, visiting expos and attending farms demos in his home prefecture of Shiga. Daijiro has a degree in Natural Sciences from Kyoto University and spent an additional year at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico studying agriculture. […]
Meros back from conducting successful food safety seminars for Kenyan peanut processors
Meros just returned from a week in Kenya as part of the JICA SHEP program to work with local consultants to conduct a series of training programs to support entrepreneurs in the peanut butter processing industry. The Smallholder Horticulture Empowerment & Promotion (SHEP) program is a market-oriented agriculture program originally started by the Japan International […]
On stage! Plug and Play Japan's Food and Beverage accelerator showcases its first cohort
Meros was thrilled to be invited to the final pitch event of Plug and Play Japan's Food and Beverage accelerator program, with Meros’ managing director Chisa Ogura on stage as a commentator. Plug and Play Japan is a subsidiary of Plug and Play Tech Center, the global innovation platform headquartered in Silicon Valley. The 10 […]