Morus launches collaborative project with KitchenTown, US food tech accelerator 

Morus Inc. (Headquarters: Tokyo; Representative Director and CEO: Ryo Sato; hereinafter referred to as “Morus”), whose vision is to create new food options with sustainable next generation proteins, is pleased to announce we will launch a collaborative project focused on the US consumers with KitchenTown, a leading company which drives new product development for food startups in the United States. This project is essential to develop a strong value proposition for the target consumer as we expand our global presence. Morus is the first Japanese protein startup KitchenTown has worked with. 

■ About KitchenTown

KitchenTown is a full service food innovation center located in San Mateo, California, which supports food companies with consumer research, product development, small batch production, and commercialization. KitchenTown provides over 20,000 square feet of FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) certified production space. Since 2014 they’ve helped hundreds of companies develop, launch, and scale better-for-you, sustainable CPG products.

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■ About Morus

Morus is an R&D-focused startup company that conducts research and produces biomaterials made from silkworms, the insects that have supported development of the Japanese economy. Our mission is to solve global problems such as the protein crisis by creating new raw materials from silkworms and supplying them to multiple industries through efficient mass production.

Silkworms are naturally rich in protein, have abundant nutrients, and are full of potential. There have been great advances in the research of silkworms’ unique nutrients that are not found in other insects. Silkworms are suitable for mass production because of their nature of not escaping and not cannibalizing, which has been developed over the long history of domestication. Ongoing research on silkworms continues to yield new discoveries. We believe silkworms will solve the global food crisis and even health problems using Japanese technologies and new research findings.

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