I tucked into my first ever breakfast in Israel early this Sunday morning faced with a blatantly biblical reminder, but there’s nothing typical about the future milk and honey being developed by the country’s booming foodtech scene.
Remember, remember! The sixth and seventh of November!
These two dates will mark the autumnal moment when fifteen fledgling agri- and foodtech startups try to make an explosive impression on FoodBytes! by Rabobank at Victoria House in London.
Wherever we look, humans have consistently built technologies that surpass their animal predecessors. Cars replaced horses, petroleum replaced whales, tractors replaced oxen, telecommunications replaced carrier pigeons. Food may be next.
The WorldFish and IFPRI join forces to carry out research into a future of seafood, without the sea, and how it could improve the world.
Danish vegetarian meal delivery startup Simple Feast plans on taking on the US, after its latest funding round. But will Americans have the appetite?
Narrowed down from over 160 applicants, the GROW accelerator showcased its nine talents to a turnout with big names like Temasek, ESG and Mondelez.
It’s hard to miss the investor enthusiasm for alternative protein startups but valuations are creeping up as I heard at the Good Food Conference last week.
New Culture is making dairy cheese without animals instead using fermentation, the addition plant-based fats, sugars and traditional cheesemaking process.
Watch out, Beyond Meat. Edible cricket farmer and roaster, ENTO, is coming for you with a bug-based burger patty. And it’s probably healthier.
For former yogurt maker and company co-owner Tom Moffitt, if you can’t beat the plant-based dairy alternatives, it’s best to join them.
Cargill “gives peas more chances” with $75m investment into Puris. It also entered a JV with White Dog Labs to supply an alternative to unsustainable fishmeal to the aquaculture industry.
You learn a fair bit about someone by just asking how they take their eggs. And it’s a pretty hot question to fire up AFN’s new “Table Talk” series when across the table this time is a veteran food industry egg-spert like David Wagstaff.
The Yelp for vegans is here. And it has $2.6m in its pocket. abillionveg is on a mission to capture $1bn in animal welfare causes and one billion users.
The Amazon Rainforest is being whittled away by one of the most massive blazes in history. Could tech have prevented it?
From the bustling streets of Bangkok and into labs in the APAC region, here’s how start-ups here are harnessing the power of the insect kingdom.
Ginkgo Bioworks spin-off company has also added key hires including a head of regulatory compliance as the protein alternatives spaces begins to tackle new challenges.
AFN speaks with Matias Peire, founder of Grid Exponential (GridX), a company builder focused on high-impact science and tech ideas in Argentina.
A worldwide pork deficit is impending and one virus is to blame. But who’s going to fill in the gaps? Meat giant Tyson’s latest earnings reveal it’s not them, with the US-China trade war largely to blame. Could they lose out to alternatives like Impossible Foods?
With big-name CVC investors like ADM Ventures and Danone Manifesto Ventures, Sustainable Bioproducts is preparing to unveil new plant-based product offerings targeting what it describes as the white space in the plant-based segment.
Investors are paying attention. So are larger meat, dairy and seafood groups. And yet the cell ag industry still has a long way to go, agreed delegates of the recent New Harvest conference in Boston. Brittany Solano reports for AFN.
