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FoodNavigator

Nov 02, 2018

‘We can effectively eliminate recalls’: Clear Labs eyes $100bn food safety opportunity

Clear Labs thinks it has a big role to play in the future of food safety. The company has just completed a $21m finding round and is gearing up for growth.

PRWeb

Oct 30, 2018

Clear Labs Raises $21M Series B2 to Expand Clear Safety, World’s Only Automated NGS Platform for Routine Pathogen Testing

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Clear Labs, the only automated and intelligent NGS platform purpose-built for food safety testing, today announced the close of $21M in funding. The Series B2 was led by Menlo Ventures, with...

GenomeWeb

Oct 30, 2018

Food Testing Firm Clear Labs Closes $21M Series B2 Round

Food testing and analytics firm Clear Labs announced today that it has raised $21 million in a Series B2 financing round. The round was led by Menlo Ventures and included Wing VC, Dentsu...

AgFunder News

Oct 30, 2018

Clear Labs Raises $21m in Series B-2 Funding to Make Food Safety Testing Quicker and Cheaper

Clear Labs, a Californian startup using next-generation sequencing (NGS) to test food for dangerous pathogens like Salmonella, has raised $21 million in an extension to its Series B round. The...

GenomeWeb

Oct 30, 2018

Food Testing Firm Clear Labs Closes $21M Series B2 Round

Food testing and analytics firm Clear Labs announced today that it has raised $21 million in a Series B2 financing round. The round was led by Menlo Ventures and included Wing VC, Dentsu...

Food Dive

Oct 30, 2018

Clear Labs closes $21M funding round to advance food safety solutions

Food safety testing has become big business as manufacturers try to avoid the negative fallout of a potential recall. The average cost of a recall can be as much as $10 million if brand damage...

Food Dive

Oct 26, 2018

Why whole genome sequencing is not the right tool for routine pathogen testing

A misconception has run amok in the food safety industry. You’ve likely heard the terms “whole genome sequencing” and “next-generation sequencing” a lot lately. It’s common even for...

Resource Magazine

Oct 24, 2018

Entrepreneurial Engineering: Clear Labs

In 2018, for the second year in a row, Clear Labs was named one of the 25 Most Innovative Agtech Startups by Forbes magazine. This food safety company was launched in 2014 to help brands build...

Food Safety Tech

Oct 05, 2018

The Power of Advanced NGS Technology in Routine Pathogen Testing

The use of NGS represents a seismic shift in the food safety world. It changes the age-old food microbiology question from: “Is this specific microbe in my sample?” to “what is the...

FoodNavigator

Jul 11, 2018

‘A new era in food safety’: Clear Labs wants to disrupt the food safety sector

Food safety specialist Clear Labs has unveiled what it describes as âthe first automated systemâ for routine pathogen testing that takes advantage of âadvanced DNA sequencing and...

Food Safety Tech

Jul 09, 2018

Will Next-Generation Sequencing Dethrone PCR?

Clear Safety, a new NGS platform from Clear Labs, aims to go head-to-head with PCR, as it is touted to be on par with cost and turnaround time but provides more accuracy and targets multiple...

Forbes

Jun 27, 2018

The 25 Most Innovative AgTech Startups In 2018

Forbes has taken to the fields and phones to come up with the top 25 most innovative startups in the ag-tech space. Just as we did last year, we surveyed the agricultural technology landscape by...

Food Safety Tech

Jun 27, 2018

The Future of Food Safety: A Q&A with Cargill’s Mike Robach

Continuing on our journey to bring you the successes, best practices, challenges and accomplishments from the very best in this industry, this month I had the pleasure of interviewing Mike...

Food Industry Executive

Jun 05, 2018

Advancing Food Safety Testing with Next-Generation Sequencing: An Interview with Clear Labs’ Mahni Ghorashi

Clear Labs, a Silicon Valley startup, is seeking to change that by replacing the traditional method of routine safety testing with next-generation sequencing (NGS). The company recently launched...

Food Safety Tech

May 23, 2018

The Future of Food Safety: A Q&A with Walmart’s Frank Yiannas

Continuing on our journey to bring you the successes, best practices, challenges and accomplishments from the very best in this industry, this month I had the pleasure of interviewing Frank...

Food Industry Executive

May 15, 2018

Clear Labs Launches Pilot Program to Usher in a New Era of Routine Food Safety Testing

Clear Labs, the only automated and intelligent platform purpose-built for food safety testing, today announced the launch of a pilot program that will bring a routine pathogen testing platform...

Food Safety Tech

May 15, 2018

Pilot Program Aims to Advance NGS to a Routine Pathogen Testing Platform

Clear Labs is working to bring industry a platform that uses DNA sequencing, bioinformatics and robotics, while being competitive with the turnaround times and cost of PCR.

Food Safety Tech

Apr 10, 2018

The Future of Food Safety: A Q&A with Mars, Inc.

For our first interview, I had the pleasure of interviewing Bob Baker, corporate food safety science and capability director at Mars, Inc.. Bob leads the corporate food safety science strategy...

Food Safety Magazine

Nov 06, 2017

Technology’s Role in Eradicating Foodborne Illness

Food recalls cost an average of $15 million per incident and cause significant harm to brands’ reputation and credibility. They can also cause significant harm to individuals. In the U.S....

Food Safety Magazine

Sep 26, 2017

Food Safety Matters Podcast Interviews Mike Taylor Former FDA Deputy Commissioner for Foods and Veterinary Medicine

Mr. Taylor currently a senior fellow at the Meridian Institute, an advisor to the Food and Society Program at the Aspen Institute, and a board member of both STOP Foodborne Illness...

Food Safety Tech

Sep 20, 2017

NGS in Food Safety: Seeing What Was Never Before Possible

Over the last 30 years, multiple technology transitions have occurred to improve food safety. Now, NGS offers an unprecedented opportunity to protect against likely threats in food...

Project Nosh

Aug 30, 2017

Clear Labs Lands $16M to Improve Food Safety

Developments in food technology are altering more than just product innovation. Using next-generation proprietary technology based on DNA sequencing and data management...

San Francisco Chronicle

Aug 15, 2017

What’s in my food? DNA sequencing, blockchain provide closer look

Looking at food at the molecular level helps Clear Labs answer questions that plague retailers, manufacturers and consumers.

Forbes

Jun 28, 2017

The 25 Most Innovative Ag-Tech Startups

From irrigation hardware engineered to beat the drought to biotechnology startups cultivating future cash crops, Forbes has identified the 25 most innovative pieces of burgeoning technology...
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