01 Mar 2022 --- UK-based food-tech firm Better Dairy has secured US$22 million in Series A funding, edging it closer to getting its aged and hard cheeses into the testing phase. Better Dairy - which is in the R&D phase of developing animal-free cheeses using precision fermentation - produces products that are molecularly identical to traditional dairy.The company notes that the process is similar to brewing beer, resulting in dairy.The latest funding follows the company raising £1.6 million (US$2.1 million) in seed funding in a spherical led by Happiness Capital in 2020.