Chocolate is becoming a biomanufacturing story. Galy just launched WunderHaus, a chocolate made with cocoa grown from cells in tanks in Massachusetts. Galy is a Boston biotech founded in 2019 by Luciano Bueno and Paula Elbl. It grows plant cells in bioreactors instead of soil. The investor list is serious. Galy raised a $33 million Series B in 2024, led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the fund Bill Gates founded. H&M Group and Inditex joined that round. Earlier backers include Sam Altman's Hydrazine Capital, Material Impact and John Doerr's family office, Eighty Eighty Group. Luciano first came to SynBioBeta in 2021 and spoke with us in 2023. Back then Galy was known for lab-grown cotton. This year it won Silver at the Edison Awards for its cocoa and cotton platform. Chocolate companies hit by the climate crisis asked whether the same platform could make cocoa. Galy went from lab to commercial scale in under a year. How it works: - Start with a small piece of cocoa bean - Multiply the cells in brewery-style tanks - Ferment, roast and grind the harvest into cocoa powder - Produce in Essex, MA, in repurposed existing infrastructure Where it stands: - Cocoa powder self-affirmed GRAS, with FDA notified - WunderHaus is built for professional kitchens: couverture and baking chocolate - First customer is Troquet on South in Boston, which stocked its whole kitchen with it - UAE launch targeted for 2027, backed by a purchase order from a Dubai chocolatier - Blended with conventional cocoa, with partnerships in the works with growers in Africa and Latin America Cocoa prices hit an all-time high in 2024. Supply is fragile and weather dependent. The part I care about most is the platform. A system built for cotton now makes cocoa. Biomanufacturing should work like this: one platform, many crops, production that doesn't depend on weather or farmland. Congrats to Luciano and the Galy team.