evidence: AgFunderNews (AFN) caught up with Aarts (KA) following Protix’s recent tie up with Tyson Foods to build a large-scale facility in the US to upcycle manufacturing byproduct into insect protein. Tyson has also taken a minority stake [$60.5m last fall] in Protix, which has raised around €227 million ($246 million) in debt and equity to date from a variety of sources including the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund, BNP Paribas, Aqua Spark and Rabobank. [...] AFN: You’ve teamed up with Tyson Foods to build an insect farm in the US. Is this kind of collaboration the likely model for large-scale insect farms going forward?