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$10 million for ‘lab-grown leather’ company

23/06/2014

Hong Kong-based Horizons Ventures has invested $10 million in Modern Meadow, a biomaterials company that claims it can produce "leather materials" with advantages in performance, without using animals. The US company will use the investment to accelerate R&D and product development as well as to open an expanded research headquarters in New York...

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