🧫 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Prolific Machines, a US-based startup, raised $42M for a new approach to cellular agriculture. It intends to develop a new “assembly line” for food production by rethinking the process of cultivating cells and finding a way to do so without the very expensive growth media used by other startups. The startup will both launch its own products and help other companies to scale their production. The number of startups trying to improve the efficiency of cellular agriculture is impressive with for example, two deals announced in Israel: