Kering has invested in biotech company VitroLabs, a pioneer producer of environmentally friendly leather that has high scalability potential.

The San Francisco-based company has been developing a scientific process to grow the world’s first cellular cultivated animal leather. It announced on Wednesday that it had closed its Series A financing to build and scale pilot production, raising 46 million dollars.

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