{"id":22560,"date":"2025-01-14T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/?p=22560"},"modified":"2026-05-01T18:24:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:24:27","slug":"animal-free-lactoferrin-maker-turtletree-shrinks-staff-amid-fundraising-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/pt\/animal-free-lactoferrin-maker-turtletree-shrinks-staff-amid-fundraising-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal-Free Lactoferrin Maker TurtleTree Shrinks Staff Amid Fundraising Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore-based TurtleTree has laid off nearly all its employees as it seeks to raise $15 million in a pre-Series B round. The company, which has raised approximately $40 million since its inception in 2019, is facing significant fundraising challenges amid a cautious investment climate. This situation highlights broader difficulties in the agrifood innovation sector.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original excerpt:<\/strong> The startup, which has attracted around $40M from investors since being established in 2019, was reportedly looking to raise another $15M&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenqueen.com.hk\/turtletree-precision-fermentation-lactoferrin-protein-layoffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Green Queen<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TurtleTree has laid off nearly all its employees as it seeks to raise $15 million in a pre-Series B round.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":22559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1034],"tags":[251,300],"class_list":["post-22560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fundraising","tag-animal-health","tag-food-tech"],"acf":{"content_format":false},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/turtletree-vegan-certification-precision-fermentation-dairy-protein-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 08:54:13","action":"category","newStatus":"draft","terms":[337],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22564,"href":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22560\/revisions\/22564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}