
Agtech CVC: ADM Ventures on the many ways corporations can invest in innovators
ADM Ventures’ Victoria de la Huerga talks with AFN working for a company that was acquired by ADM–then helping the corporation build its venture investing strategy.
ADM Ventures’ Victoria de la Huerga talks with AFN working for a company that was acquired by ADM–then helping the corporation build its venture investing strategy.
Next Gen will use the funds to launch its first brand, plant-based chicken substitute TiNDLE, in Singapore and other Asian cities.
Aleph Farms claims the new technology will allow it to create any type of ‘muscle-cut’ steak and hopes to rapidly expand its product portfolio in the area.
Agritecture Xchange is a virtual conference connecting key innovations in the field of AgTech to the future health of our cities. In the face of
Investor network FAIRR concludes that 86% of major meat, egg, and dairy suppliers are failing to declare greenhouse gas emissions or set meaningful reduction targets.
“There’s an abundance of need for what they do,” Prince Khaled, Saudi royal and new investor in the Oakland-based startup, told AFN.
Dutch startup Mosa Meat is expecting a second close of its Series B round in “the next few months” following a $55 million first tranche.
The French startup – which farms mealworms to produce ingredients for fish feed, pet food, and crop fertilizers – claims it’s the biggest insect protein round ever.
Microbes such as mycoprotein and microalgae can be used to produce biomass, improve plant-based products, and create paradigm-changing functional ingredients.
the third year of Startup Europe’s Smart Agrifood Summit, an industry-leading event for the creation of innovative ecosystems within the European agri-food sector. This year
Mail order, frozen, plant-based chicken nuggets… Before we met Ben Pasternak, the founder of SIMULATE (formerly NUGGS), this would have sounded like the worst idea ever.
Is there a case to be made for distributed, hyper-local food processing models? SavorEat CEO Racheli Vizman thinks so.
The off-the-shelf animal-free ingredients provider is stepping into bespoke formulations as it eyes a food & bev debut in 2021.
Perfect Day, a Californian startup using plants and fermentation techniques to manufacture animal-free dairy products, has expanded its Series C round to $300 million. Hawk
The Good Food Institute Asia-Pacific has also named who it believes to be the top 35 alt-protein investors in the region, and calls for more upstream focus on areas like raw materials.
CEO Leonardo Álvarez said there were near-term gains to be made by zeroing in on replacing unhealthy and ineffective ‘E-number’ chemical preservatives.
From IT to oat milk, Bjorn Oste started working with his oat milk-inventing brother Rickard in the 1990s to build Oatly, the hugely successful, Sweden-born oat milk company, known for its quirky marketing campaigns, and more recently for selling out in major grocery stores at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Many of America’s animal protein powerhouses are looking to capitalize on rising consumer demand for plant-based products. Michael Foods just joined the club.
US alternative protein investment in the first quarter of 2020 reached $741m, just shy of the $741m total in the whole of 2019, according to GFI.
The news cycle for the entire Covid-19 pandemic crisis has been awash with crises in the food industry, forcing various tech providers to step up to the challenge. But which will be left wanting when the virus eventually subsides?
Biological innovation is key to the economic & environmental sustainability of CEA