Alternative proteins had a big year in 2019. But are they alternative or additional to traditional protein sources, ask F&A Next partners ahead of the conference in May?
It’s been all about pork in the alternative meat space so far in 2020 and it’s a welcome shift from the focus on beef.
Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. — better known by his hip hop alias Snoop Dogg — is bringing a whole new meaning to the term ‘activist investor.’
New Age Meats just raised $2.7m in seed funding to broaden its product offerings from sausages into bacon and pork belly.
As of this week, it is now available in over 600 Target locations in the U.S.
This reporter visited This at their tech hub offices by Portobello Road in London last May to try its plant-based bacon alternative ahead of the launch that summer.
In this episode, I speak to two members of AgFunder’s investment team who joined the company in 2019, Yanniv Dorone and Quinten Eggink. In another holiday special – shhh, yes I know the holidays are over – they both share how they came to work in this industry and for AgFunder.
This episode is perhaps a tad awkward as I interview my boss Rob Leclerc, founding partner of AgFunder, but Rob was as insightful as ever, sharing his thoughts on working in and around the agriculture sector for the past decade.
In this episode of the podcast, I catch-up with GFI’s Bruce Friedrich and revisit some questions I asked him back in 2016.
The Netherlands-based alt-protein company is one of a small number catching investor interest for farming insects for human consumption rather than for animal feed.
In the UK, the practice of Veganuary — being vegan for the month of January — is starting to catch the attention of the fast-food giants.
We asked Perfect Day why they’re leaving value on the table by focusing on partnerships and not marketing its own brand and how they’re staying ahead of the competition.
Did you know that if America’s cats and dogs were a country, they’d be the fifth largest consumer of meat products globally? Now add the world’s pets into that; that’s a big contribution to the carbon footprint of the world’s meat industry.
The raise — which brings Meatable’s total funding to date to $13 million — comes mainly from an existing investor base and The European Commission also contributed funds through its Eurostars Programme.
My time spent scouting out various ASF tech solutions at the Asia-Pacific Agri Tech Innovation Week in Singapore has given me cause for cautious optimism.
I tried Karana’s alt turkey at the recent Asia Agri-Food Innovation Week in Singapore. Here’s what I thought.
Luckily I didn’t have to choose. Here’s a few things I heard while living it up at the St Regis and bumping into celebs at every turn.
ChickP uses what the company describes as “patent-pending technology to extract up to 90% pure protein out of the chickpea seed.”
On November 26th, AgFunder is hosting two investor webinars, one at 7:00 am Pacific, another at 4:00 pm Pacific, to discuss AgFunder’s New Carnivore Fund
GFI Israel could enable the country to become a leader in alternative protein innovation, writes AgFunder associate Yanniv Dorone.
