🎥Hoxton Farms tackles fat, the final frontier for alt meat
May 13, 2024
“Meat alternatives don’t taste good enough, and it’s the key reason consumers don’t repeat purchase,” claims cultivated fat co Hoxton Farms.
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🎥Coffee with a kick… but no caffeine? Rarebird spills the beans on paraxanthine
May 10, 2024
A metabolite of caffeine, paraxanthine (Px) delivers what most people want from coffee, without the jitters, sleeplessness, and anxiety, claims Rarebird.
The Week in AgriFoodTech: Voyage Foods raises $52m, ArkeaBio bags $27m, a ‘regulation-free’ zone for biotech
May 9, 2024
Plus: alt-protein investor Big Idea Ventures enters the biologicals sector.
Experts question debt-laden Beyond Meat’s future in wake of grim Q1 figures
May 9, 2024
Beyond Meat posted a net loss of $54.4m on revenues down 18% to $75.6m in Q1, 2024. However, gross margins moved back into positive territory.
Dextrose… with a 40% lower carbon footprint? Green Plains gears up to launch ‘truly disruptive’ tech at ethanol plant in Iowa
May 8, 2024
Green Plains will be able to produce dextrose with significantly lower capital and carbon intensity vs the standard wet milling process, claims the ethanol producer.
Brief: Meati Foods raises $100m, rolls out at Kroger nationwide
May 8, 2024
Fungi-fueled startup Meati Foods has raised $100m+ in a C-1 round led by Grosvenor Food & AgTech and rolled out its mycelium-based steaks and cutlets into 2,000 Kroger stores, taking its store count up to 6,000.
‘The relationship soon turned rancid…’ Judge awards wins to both sides in ugly dispute between Eat Just and ABEC over unpaid bills
May 7, 2024
The latest in the ugly legal dispute between bioreactor supplier ABEC and foodtech co Eat Just and its GOOD Meat cultivated meat subsidiary…
Middle-income countries hold 75% of all climate mitigation opportunities, says new World Bank report
May 6, 2024
MICs have “an outsized role to play” when it comes to climate mitigation, says a new report from World Bank.
GUEST ARTICLE: Are plant-based meats cooked?
May 6, 2024
What is holding back the plant-based meat market? Poor taste and texture? The hefty price tag? Poor branding and positioning?
Mattson probes Ozempic effect on food innovation, from mini-bites and hydrating pops to lighter protein drinks
May 6, 2024
New consumer research from Mattson into users of GLP-1 drugs indicates they want more protein, smaller portion sizes, and foods that soothe nausea and digestive discomfort.
The Week in AgriFoodTech: Oishii bags another $15m, BTG launches Betagro Ventures, HeavyFinance eyes Ukraine
May 2, 2024
Plus: Delivery platform Pipedream raises $13 million and Florida signs a ban on cultivated meat.
Brief: Maia Farms raises $1.7m in pre-seed round to expand mycelium production
May 2, 2024
Maia Farms’ fungi-fueled biomass fermentation platform, which uses mycelium from edible mushroom varieties, can deliver “significantly higher yields” than Fusarium-type products, claims the startup.
Shiru harnesses AI to launch protein discovery platform: ‘It’s like Amazon for proteins…’
May 1, 2024
Shiru has also developed AI and ML-based models to predict protein expression in microbial systems, helping firms determine the most cost effective way to produce target proteins at scale.
Caladan Bio raises $5m seed round to build next generation benchtop bioreactors
May 1, 2024
Caladan Bio has developed a lower-cost benchtop bioreactor system designed to enhance data capture and increase experimentation throughput.
New report: India’s 60% drop in agrifoodtech investment is ‘a reversion to the mean’
April 30, 2024
Bucking the overall global agrifoodtech investment trend, funding returned to pre-Covid levels.
BREAKING: Apps are open for 2024 GLOCAL Game Changers Latin America agrifoodtech accelerator!
April 29, 2024
The Game Changers program offers Latin American startups the chance to join GLOCAL’s portfolio and grow their businesses.
Plant-based cheesemaker Climax Foods disqualified from Good Food Awards on eve of awards ceremony
April 26, 2024
The foodtech co—which had been told it was a winner weeks ago to give the team time to plan a trip to Portland for the awards ceremony—was told it had fallen foul of rules it claims had not previously been communicated.
Meet the founders: Nosh.bio’s Tim Fronzek and Felipe Lino… ‘We’re the only ones making a meat analog from a single ingredient’
April 26, 2024
“It’s difficult to find another company in the food space that has developed so fast in only two years,” says Nosh.bio cofounder Tim Fronzek.
The Week in AgriFoodTech: Pula raises $20m for ag insurance, SOSV’s new planetary health fund, Impossible’s new ranch
April 25, 2024
Plus: Swiss cleantech startup Bcomp raises new funds and Shake Shack expands its carbon neutral shake offerings.
From almond crops to BIPOC communities, Daily Harvest aims to transition more farms to regenerative-organic
April 25, 2024
“There is no regenerative without organic,” says Daily Harvest’s CEO Ricky Silver.
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